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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AHUK</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1392-4095</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1392-4095</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>KU</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">20_072-086_PETRUZIENE</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Article</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Klaipėda Jewish Community: Survival, Continuity and Change</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="Author">
          <name>
            <surname>Petružienė</surname>
            <given-names>Sada</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:pk.pf@ku.lt">pk.pf@ku.lt</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_AHUK_aff_000"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_AHUK_aff_000">Klaipėda University</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>20</volume>
      <fpage>72</fpage>
      <lpage>86</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>05</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2010</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>05</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2010</year>
      </pub-date>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2010</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>Klaipėda University</copyright-holder>
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      <abstract>
        <p>The attitude of Klaipėda Jewish community towards survival, alternation and continuity of community is being analyzed in the present article. Klaipėda Jewish community is regenerated in independent Lithuania, and it unifies few members. As a rule, they are Russian speaking elderly people, having little knowledge in its nation history and customs. It was expected, that Klaipėda Jewish community will naturally vanish, and young people will emigrate. In a fact we see at present, that this community is still lively, active and integrated one. A short excursion to the history of Klaipėda Jewish community, regarding the issues of its survival, alternation and continuity is presented hereby, and attention towards Klaipėda, as cross-border region, is pointed out.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Jewish community</kwd>
        <kwd>survival</kwd>
        <kwd>changes</kwd>
        <kwd>continuity</kwd>
        <kwd>Klaipėda</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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