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JewishGen Locality Page - Telšiai, Lithuania

Telšiai, Lithuania

Alternate names: Telšiai [Lith], Telshi [Rus], Telzh [Yid], Telsze [Pol], Telsche [Ger], Telši [Latv], Telšē, Teltsch, Telshe, Telschi, Telsh, Telshie, Telšių, Telz

Region: Kovno

JGFF Town Search (253 Matches)
Yizkor Books (2 Books):

Sefer Telz (Lita); matsevet zikaron le-kehila kedosha (Tel Aviv, 1984)
Lite (vol. 1) (New York, 1951)

ShtetLinks: http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/telz/telz.html

	Town	District	Province	Country
Before WWI (c. 1900):	Telshi	Telshi	Kovno	Russian Empire
Between the wars (c. 1930):	Telšiai	Telšiai		Lithuania
After WWII (c. 1950):	Telšiai			Soviet Union
Today (c. 2000):	Telšiai			Lithuania

Jewish Population in 1900:

3,088

Notes:

Russian: Тельши. Yiddish: טעלז.
Former uyezd capital, in NW Lithuania. 99 miles NW of Kaunas (Kovno), 42 miles W of Šiauliai (Shavl).

Telšiai, Lithuania: 55°59' N, 22°15' E

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Nearby Jewish Communities:

Nevarėnai 8 miles N
Alsedžiai 8 miles WNW
Luoke 12 miles ESE
Žemaičių Kalvarija 13 miles NW
Seda 14 miles NNW
Tryškiai 14 miles ENE
Plunge 16 miles WSW
Varniai 17 miles SSE
Plateliai 17 miles WNW
Tverai 18 miles SSW
Barstyčiai 19 miles NW
Tirkšliai 20 miles N
Viekšniai 20 miles NNE
Užventis 21 miles SE
Rietavas 21 miles SW
Mažeikiai 23 miles N
Papile 24 miles ENE
Židikai 25 miles NNW
Karklenai 25 miles SSE
Laukuva 25 miles S
Ylakiai 26 miles NW
Kuršenai 26 miles E
Kuliai 26 miles WSW
Akmene 27 miles NE
Salantai 27 miles WNW
Šaukenai 28 miles ESE
Leckava 28 miles N
Mosedis 29 miles WNW
Kaltinenai 30 miles SSE

the JewishGen Lithuania Database for Telšiai / Telshi.
the JewishGen website for Telšiai / Telshi.

Additional information for Telšiai:

Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), pp. 1301-1302: "Telsiai".
Lithuanian Jewish Communities (1991), pp. 308-312: "Telz (Telsiai)".
Pinkas HaKehilot, Lithuania (1996), p. 305: "Telsiai"
Shtetl Finder (1989), p. 102: "Telz, Telzh".
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