SHTETLINKS:  KULDIGA, LATVIA
Other Names -- GOLDINGEN (Yiddish/German)

Photo of 19th-century dwelling on Windaustrasse in Jewish section of Kuldiga by Eric Benjaminson)

 

Maps

• Click here to see MapQuest's plotting of Kuldiga
• Political Map of Latvia (1998)
• Kuldiga City Website with a detailed city map

 

 



(Seventeenth-century map of Courland scanned by E. Benjaminson)

Pictures

• Photograph Collection from Kuldiga, Latvia (recent)
• Collection of Historical Photos of Kuldiga from Latvian website

Historical Background Information

• History of Kuldiga (Goldingen)
• List of Jewish Guild Merchants in Nineteenth-Century Goldingen

Bibliography

• List of Works to be Consulted

Family Stories

• Benjaminsohn Family Memoir (under construction)

Searchable Databases

• JewishGen Family Finder (for KULDIGA) 

 

 

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Compiled by Eric Benjaminson  Updated by edb April 27, 2003  Copyright © 2002 Eric Benjaminson

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