Author : Dovid Katz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Jews
ISBN : UOM:39015066245641
Lithuanian Jewish Culture
Dovid Katz
Lithuanian Jewish Culture
Lithuanian Jewish Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Lithuanian Jewish Culture book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The Vanished World of Lithuanian Jews
Alvydas Nikžentaitis,Stefan Schreiner,Darius Staliūnas
Author : Alvydas Nikžentaitis,Stefan Schreiner,Darius Staliūnas
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 9042008504
The Vanished World of Lithuanian Jews by Alvydas Nikžentaitis,Stefan Schreiner,Darius Staliūnas Pdf
The Lithuanian Jews, Litvaks, played an important and unique role not only within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but in a wider context of Jewish life and culture in Eastern Europe, too. The changing world around them at the end of the nineteenth century and during the first decades of the twentieth had a profound impact not only on the Jewish communities, but also on a parallel world of the "others," that is, those who lived with them side by side. Exploring and demonstrating this development from various angles is one of the themes and objectives of this book. Another is the analysis of the Shoah, which ended the centuries of Jewish culture in Lithuania: a world of its own had vanished within months. This book, therefore, "recalls" that vanished world. In doing so, it sheds new light on what has been lost. The papers presented in this collection were delivered at the international conferences in Nida (1997) and Telsiai (2001), Lithuania. Participants came from Israel, the USA, Great Britain, Poland, Russia, Belarus, Germany, and Lithuania.
The History of Jews in Lithuania
Vladas Sirutavičius,Darius Staliūnas,Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė
Author : Vladas Sirutavičius,Darius Staliūnas,Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė
Publisher : Brill Schoningh
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 3657705759
The History of Jews in Lithuania by Vladas Sirutavičius,Darius Staliūnas,Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė Pdf
This book aims to create an integral picture of the social, economic and cultural history of the Jews in Lithuania during the course of more than six hundred years - from the Middle Ages to the 1990s. It is a translation of the study "Lietuvos žydai. Istorinė studija" (Engl. "Lithuanian Jews. Historical study"), published in Lithuanian in 2012. The Book was written by an interna-tional group of scholars from Lithuania, Israel, the United States of America and Germany. The world of Lithuanian Jewry is reconstructed through different aspects of the development of community and society: demography, social and economic activity, self-government institutions of the community, cultural and religious movements, literature and the press, education, discriminative policy of the authorities and relations with the dominant church, segregation, assimilation and changes of identity, anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust.
The Litvaks
Dov Levin
Author : Dov Levin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 9781571812643
The Litvaks by Dov Levin Pdf
Discusses some aspects of antisemitism in Lithuania, especially in socioeconomic terms, in the Middle Ages and under the Russian tsars. The 20th-century interwar period saw the introduction of anti-Jewish laws that negatively impacted on Jewish political involvement, economic activity, and physical security, and the situation worsened with a right-wing coup, at which time Nazi influence grew among the German minority. The peak of antisemitism is treated in pt. 4 (pp. 187-247), "World War II, the Holocaust, and the Jewish Survivors". Although Soviet rule in 1940-41 ended many restrictions, it harmed Jews culturally and economically; many were arrested or exiled. The Nazi occupation which followed led to the destruction of Lithuanian Jewry. Even before the arrival of the German army, ca. 10,000 Jews were murdered by Lithuanians. German troops brought the Final Solution, in which Lithuanian collaboration was massive. Discusses ghettos, forced labor, and concentration camps, as well as Jewish partisan resistance. 96% of Lithuanian Jews were killed. Popular antisemitism was revived in postwar Lithuania. The issues of Lithuanian-Nazi collaboration and the Lithuanian association of Jews with communists to justify the massacre of Jews during World War II remained problems in the postwar and even post-communist periods.
Lithuanian Jewish Communities
Nancy Schoenburg,Stuart Schoenburg
Author : Nancy Schoenburg,Stuart Schoenburg
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461629382
Lithuanian Jewish Communities by Nancy Schoenburg,Stuart Schoenburg Pdf
Lithuanian Jewish Communities is a remarkable resource for students of Lithuanian Jewish history and for people descended from Lithuanian Jews. This volume lists, in alphabetical order, the major Jewish communities that existed in Lithuania before World War II. The name of each community is accompanied by information about it: when it was founded, the Jewish population in different years, shops and synagogues, and the names of citizens. An appendix locates each town on a map of Lithuania. Since most of the Jewish communities in Lithuania were destroyed in the Holocaust, this volume will be a valuable tool in recreating a picture of Lithuanian Jewry. Other appendices provide member lists from Lithuanian Jewish organizations throughout the world and list agencies that will provide help in further research on Lithuanian Jewry. Descendants of Lithuanian Jews who wish to trace their genealogy will be greatly helped by Lithuanian Jewish Communities.
Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century
Gershon David Hundert
Author : Gershon David Hundert
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520238442
Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century by Gershon David Hundert Pdf
Annotation A history of Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century which argues that this largest Jewish community in the world at that time must be at the center of consideration of modernity in Jewish history.
Once Upon a Time in Lithuania
Naomi Alexander
Author : Naomi Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Jews
ISBN : UCSC:32106017803344
Once Upon a Time in Lithuania by Naomi Alexander Pdf
"Throughout her career Naomi Alexander has worked as a figurative artist. When invited by the Europas Parkas Museum in Vilnius to be their first painter in residence she decided to draw Jewish culture as her family roots go back to 18th century Lithuania. She draws what she sees: the vast forests and their dark secrets, the poor people that now live in the homes where Jews once lived, dilapidated buildings, synagogues and cemeteries, and the churches that still loom over the old Jewish areas. Additional information and quirky captions give a sense of the present day struggles of Lithuania's small Jewish community. With introductory articles by John Russell Taylor, The Times art critic, and by Aubrey Newman, Associate Director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies, University of Leicester."--BOOK JACKET.
We Are Here
Ellen Cassedy
Author : Ellen Cassedy
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803240223
We Are Here by Ellen Cassedy Pdf
Ellen Cassedy’s longing to recover the Yiddish she’d lost with her mother’s death eventually led her to Lithuania, once the “Jerusalem of the North.” As she prepared for her journey, her uncle, sixty years after he’d left Lithuania in a boxcar, made a shocking disclosure about his wartime experience, and an elderly man from her ancestral town made an unsettling request. Gradually, what had begun as a personal journey broadened into a larger exploration of how the people of this country, Jews and non-Jews alike, are confronting their past in order to move forward into the future. How does a nation—how do successor generations, moral beings—overcome a bloody past? How do we judge the bystanders, collaborators, perpetrators, rescuers, and ourselves? These are the questions Cassedy confronts in We Are Here, one woman’s exploration of Lithuania’s Jewish history combined with a personal exploration of her own family’s place in it. Digging through archives with the help of a local whose motives are puzzling to her; interviewing natives, including an old man who wants to “speak to a Jew” before he dies; discovering the complications encountered by a country that endured both Nazi and Soviet occupation—Cassedy finds that it’s not just the facts of history that matter, but what we choose to do with them.
The City in the Moonlight
Dovid Katz
Author : Dovid Katz
Publisher : Ktav Publishing House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Folk literature, Yiddish
ISBN : 1602801983
The City in the Moonlight by Dovid Katz Pdf
A Pragmatic Alliance
Vladas Sirutavičius,Darius Staliūnas
Author : Vladas Sirutavičius,Darius Staliūnas
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9786155053184
A Pragmatic Alliance by Vladas Sirutavičius,Darius Staliūnas Pdf
Discusses the political cooperation between Jews and Lithuanians in the Tsarist Empire from the last decades of the 19th century until the early 1920s. These years saw the transformation of both Jewish and Lithuanian political life. Within the Jewish community, the previously dominant integrationists were now challenged both by those who believed that the Jews were not a religious but an ethnic or proto-nationalist group and those who believed that only with the abolition of capitalism and the establishment of a socialist state would Jewish integration be possible. Among the Lithuanians, the emergence of a modern national identity became increasingly prevalent.
Jewish Cultural Heritage in Lithuania
Alfredas Jomantas
Author : Alfredas Jomantas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture, Jewish
ISBN : UOM:39015073980248
Jewish Cultural Heritage in Lithuania by Alfredas Jomantas Pdf
Fragm. dotyczą m.in. okresu wspólnej państwowości Polski i Litwy.
The Jewish State Museum of Lithuania
Rachilė Kostanian
Author : Rachilė Kostanian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Jewish museums
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029020828
The Jewish State Museum of Lithuania by Rachilė Kostanian Pdf
A short guide to the Jewish State Museum of Lithuania, which reopened in Vilnius in 1989. Describes permanent exhibits of the museum, among them - "Catastrophe" and "The Righteous among the Nations". The "Catastrophe" exhibit deals mainly with the ghettos of Vilnius and Kaunas, describing the genocide of the Jews and also the resistance. Includes photographs.
Jerusalem of Lithuania
N. N. Shneidman
Author : N. N. Shneidman
Publisher : Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015062115723
Jerusalem of Lithuania by N. N. Shneidman Pdf
This book relates the story of growth and success, as well as devastation and annihilation, of a thriving Jewish community. It is an incredible account of personal survival placed within the context of the history of the city, and its Jewish population. It combines historical data, academic analysis, and autobiographical material, based on reminiscences and memoirs written during the war.
The Book Smugglers
David E. Fishman
Author : David E. Fishman
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512601268
The Book Smugglers by David E. Fishman Pdf
The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts-first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets-by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, and of unwavering devotion-including the readiness to risk one's life-to literature and art. And it is entirely true. Based on Jewish, German, and Soviet documents, including diaries, letters, memoirs, and the author's interviews with several of the story's participants, The Book Smugglers chronicles the daring activities of a group of poets turned partisans and scholars turned smugglers in Vilna, "The Jerusalem of Lithuania." The rescuers were pitted against Johannes Pohl, a Nazi "expert" on the Jews, who had been dispatched to Vilna by the Nazi looting agency, Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, to organize the seizure of the city's great collections of Jewish books. Pohl and his Einsatzstab staff planned to ship the most valuable materials to Germany and incinerate the rest. The Germans used forty ghetto inmates as slave-laborers to sort, select, pack, and transport the materials, either to Germany or to nearby paper mills. This group, nicknamed "the Paper Brigade," and informally led by poet Shmerke Kaczerginski, a garrulous, street-smart adventurer and master of deception, smuggled thousands of books and manuscripts past German guards. If caught, the men would have faced death by firing squad at Ponar, the mass-murder site outside of Vilna. To store the rescued manuscripts, poet Abraham Sutzkever helped build an underground book-bunker sixty feet beneath the Vilna ghetto. Kaczerginski smuggled weapons as well, using the group's worksite, the former building of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, to purchase arms for the ghetto's secret partisan organization. All the while, both men wrote poetry that was recited and sung by the fast-dwindling population of ghetto inhabitants. With the Soviet "liberation" of Vilna (now known as Vilnius), the Paper Brigade thought themselves and their precious cultural treasures saved-only to learn that their new masters were no more welcoming toward Jewish culture than the old, and the books must now be smuggled out of the USSR. Thoroughly researched by the foremost scholar of the Vilna Ghetto-a writer of exceptional daring, style, and reach-The Book Smugglers is an epic story of human heroism, a little-known tale from the blackest days of the war.
The Archaeology of the Holocaust
Richard A. Freund
Author : Richard A. Freund
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781538102671
The Archaeology of the Holocaust by Richard A. Freund Pdf
In the summer of 2016 acclaimed archaeologist Richard Freund and his team made news worldwide when they discovered an escape tunnel from the Ponar burial pits in Lithunia. This Holocaust site where more than 100,000 people perished is usually remembered for the terrible devastation that happened there. In the midst of this devastation, the discovery of an escape tunnel reminds us of the determination and tenacity of the people in the camp and the hope they continued to carry. The Archaeology of the Holocaust takes readers out to the field with Freund and his multi-disciplinary research group as they uncover the evidence of the Holocaust, focusing on sites in Lithuania, Poland, and Greece in the past decade. Using forensic detective work, Freund tells the micro- and macro-histories of sites from the Holocaust as his team covers excavations and geo-physical surveys done at four sites in Poland, four sites in Rhodes, and 15 different sites in Lithuania with comparisons of some of the work done at other sites in Eastern Europe. The book contains testimonies of survivors, photographs, information about a variety of complementary geo-science techniques, and information gleaned from pin-point excavations. It serves as an introduction to the Holocaust and explains aspects of the culture lost in the Holocaust through the lens of archaeology and geo-science.
