It was also a border town, as the suburb Elkost belonged to Prussia.
Is your reference to the city of Kaunas/Kowno/Kovno or the Russian province of the same name? The yeshiva in Slobodka, an impoverished district of the city, was one of Europe's most prestigious inst… Living conditions for many Jews were squalid. Kovno Today. The First World War. Today, not much remains of Kovno but fragments of that old community: derelict buildings, slanting wooden houses, and the wonder of what the place was like, both pre- … Here's a Wikipedia page of the counties of Lithuania.
The Pale had four major regions: (1) ten Polish guberniyas; (2) six guberniyas in northwestern Russia (Grodno, Kovno, Minsk, Mogilev, Vilno and Vitebsk); (3) five guberniyas in southwestern Russia (Chernigov, Kiev, Podalia, Plotava and Volhynia); and (4) four guberniyas in southern Russia (Bessarabia, Ekaterinoslav, Kherson and Taurida). Photo: A map of the Kovno ghetto. Between 1920 and 1939, Kovno (Kaunas), located in central Lithuania, was the country's capital and largest city. It lies at the head of navigation on the Neman (Lithuanian Nemunas) River, there joined by the tributary Viliya (Lithuanian Neris) River. Brockhaus and Efron Jewish Encyclopedia e9 579-0.jpg 1,683 × 1,164; 499 KB. NOTE: The YELLOW on the map below indicates gubernii within the Pale where our ancestors lived. Founded as a fortress in 1030, Kaunas became a town in 1317 and received its charter of self-government in 1408. Jews are first known to have lived in Kovno as early as 1410 when they were brought there forcibly as prisoners of war by the Grand Duke Vytautas.
Kovno's Jewish life was disrupted when the Soviet Union occupied Lithuania in June 1940.
Photo: A map of the Kovno ghetto. ... Jews remained at the margins of society, periodically exiled and regularly mistreated until 1503, when the King of Russia, Alexander I, encouraged them to participate in local trade and commerce. About 4% arrived from Romania. Kaunas was the biggest city and the centre of a county in the Duchy of Trakai of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Trakai Palatinate since 1413. Many of those Jews were later active as traders between Kovno and Danzig (today's Gdansk, Poland). #kovno-12: Max Soloveichik (a Jewish minster member of the Lithuanian parliament), during a speech. Money was donated from other towns in Russia to aid the Jews of Shavel and this is documented in the Hebrew newspaper Hamagid. The Russian government expelled the Jews to central Russia. Cyr.,"also titled "Atlas Universel de Geographie Moderne.". Jaroslav, at the convergence of the Nemunas and Neris rivers. Also a DETAIL image (AK) 1888 Kovno Guberniya. The Pale consisted of the 15 western provinces of European Russia and the 10 provinces of Congress Poland. #kovno-13: #kovno-14: