The History Of Jews In Lithuania

Author : Dov Levin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 9781571812643

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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.

Author : Vladas Sirutavičius,Darius Staliūnas,Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė
Publisher : Brill Schoningh
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 3657705759

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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.

Author : Nancy Schoenburg,Stuart Schoenburg
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461629382

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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.

Author : Karen Sutton
Publisher : Gefen Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015079272335

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The Massacre of the Jews of Lithuania by Karen Sutton Pdf

Reports on the Nazi genocide of Jews in Lithuania, dwelling on Lithuanian collaboration in the Holocaust or passive response to it. Describes the Holocaust in Vilnius, Kaunas, and some other places, and Jewish reactions to it, including attempts at resistance. Dismisses theories that the cause of Lithuanian collaboration was the widespread linkage of Jews with communism and the real or exaggerated Jewish role in the Sovietization of Lithuania in 1940-41. Although the traumatic experience of Sovietization exacerbated the ethnic conflict in Lithuania, those Lithuanians who murdered Jews in Kaunas, Vilnius, and elsewhere acted out of pre-existing hatred. The root of this hatred, which manifested itself in the prewar period as well, was economic competition with the Jews and religious and cultural distance from them. Argues that the Lithuanians showed an ability to resist Nazi policies in situations that were vital to them, e.g. concerning mobilization for work in Germany. They could have also resisted the Nazi genocide of Jews, but it was not regarded as vital.

Author : Ruta Vanagaite,Efraim Zuroff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781538133040

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Our People by Ruta Vanagaite,Efraim Zuroff Pdf

A famous Nazi hunter and a descendent of Nazi collaborators team up on a journey to uncover Lithuania’s Holocaust secrets. This remarkable book traces the quest for the truth about the Holocaust in Lithuania by two ostensible enemies: Rūta a descendant of the perpetrators, Efraim a descendant of the victims. Rūta Vanagaitė, a successful Lithuanian writer, was motivated by her recent discoveries that some of her relatives had played a role in the mass murder of Jews and that Lithuanian officials had tried to hide the complicity of local collaborators. Efraim Zuroff, a noted Israeli Nazi hunter, had both professional and personal motivations. He had worked for years to bring Lithuanian war criminals to justice and to compel local authorities to tell the truth about the Holocaust in their country. The facts that his maternal grandparents were born in Lithuania and that he was named for a great-uncle who was murdered with his family in Vilnius with the active help of Lithuanians made his search personal as well. Our People exposes the significant role in implementing the Final Solution played by local political leaders and the prewar Lithuanian administration that remained in place during the Nazi occupation. It also tackles the sensitive issue of the motivation of thousands of ordinary Lithuanians who were complicit in the murder of their Jewish neighbors. At the heart of the book, these are the issues that Rūta and Efraim discuss, debate, and analyze as they crisscross the country to visit dozens of Holocaust mass murder sites in Lithuania and neighboring Belarus. This book follows them on their remarkable journey as they search for neglected graves, interview eyewitnesses, and uncover hints of the rich life that had existed in hundreds of Jewish communities throughout Lithuania.

Author : Keith W. Kaye
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781463420758

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Jews of Lithuania and Latvia: the Graudans by Keith W. Kaye Pdf

Discovery to Diaspora is a fascinating family journey which breathes life into the times of Jews in Lithuania and Latvia. The Jewish roots in the Baltic Sea region are rife with dualities. In one sense, the region is a beautiful coastal area with large sandy beaches and busy ports. Yet, these same attractions have fraught the region with war and conflict. It is here where the Graudan Family was established. It was also the site in which German Nazis and Latvian collaborators mass murdered thousands of Jews during WWII, including some of the Graudans, (the local population numbered about 7,000 before the war and yet less than 30 Jews remained after the war). Others in the family, through marriage, and the foresight of early emigration survived. Through their individual stories we see their descendents enriching the world with their skills, love, and compassion for life. With the help of genealogy reports, published works, public records, memoirs, journals, diaries, notes, interviews, and personal stories, Keith W Kaye develops a holistic blueprint of Jewish life and times of the Graudan family from the eighteenth to mid twentieth century. Steeped in rich ancestry and history, the personal stories allow the reader to travel to the Baltic and experience past life there in a firsthand way. A vivid picture of Jewish life in Lithuania and in Latvia evolves as the history, politics, and people of the region are explored. Jews of Lithuania and Latvia: The Graudans is also an important contribution to current scholarship of Baltic region Jewry. Along the way, Keith shares his own techniques for discovering the historical and familial facts, his unexpected and enlightening encounters, and his exciting exploration into the depths of his family history.

Author : Gershon David Hundert
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520238442

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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.

Author : Israel Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Vilna by Israel Cohen Pdf

Author : Alvydas Nikžentaitis,Stefan Schreiner,Darius Staliūnas
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 9042008504

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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.

Author : Masha Greenbaum
Publisher : Gefen Books
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9652291323

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The Jews of Lithuania by Masha Greenbaum Pdf

The history of Lithuanian Jewry was accompanied throughout by manifestations of antisemitism. Mentions cases of limitation of rights, persecutions and expulsions of Jews in medieval Lithuania, in the early modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in imperial Russia which annexed the Lithuanian territories in the 18th century, and in neighboring countries. Ch. 5 (pp. 207-282), "The Great War and After: Jewish National Autonomy in Reborn Lithuania, " describes the creation of Jewish cultural autonomy in 1919 and its destruction by the authorities after 1926; pp. 276-280 deal with antisemitism in the Lithuanian republic. Ch. 7 (pp. 302-339), "The Bloodbath, " describes the Holocaust in Lithuania, especially in Vilna and Kovno.

Author : Ellen Cassedy
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803240223

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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.

Author : Silvia Foti
Publisher : Regnery History
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684511082

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The Nazi's Granddaughter by Silvia Foti Pdf

Hero–or Nazi? Silvia Foti was raised on reverent stories about her hero grandfather, a martyr for Lithuanian independence and an unblemished patriot. Jonas Noreika, remembered as “General Storm,” had resisted his country’s German and Soviet occupiers in World War II, surviving two years in a Nazi concentration camp only to be executed in 1947 by the KGB. His granddaughter, growing up in Chicago, was treated like royalty in her tightly knit Lithuanian community. But in 2000, when Silvia traveled to Lithuania for a ceremony honoring her grandfather, she heard a very different story—a “rumor” that her grandfather had been a “Jew-killer.” The Nazi’s Granddaughter is Silvia’s account of her wrenching twenty-year quest for the truth, from a beautiful house confiscated from its Jewish owners, to familial confessions and the Holocaust tour guide who believed that her grandfather had murdered members of his family. A heartbreaking and dramatic story based on exhaustive documentary research and soul-baring interviews, The Nazi’s Granddaughter is an unforgettable journey into World War II history, intensely personal but filled with universal lessons about courage, faith, memory, and justice.

Author : Dovid Katz
Publisher : Art Stock Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Jews
ISBN : 9639776513

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Lithuanian Jewish Culture by Dovid Katz Pdf

"Dovid Katz's monumental Lithuanian Jewish Culture is the most comprehensive work ever to appear in English on the cultural, linguistic and spiritual worlds of the Litvaks. The Litvaks are the Jews hailing from the lands of the medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania and its successor modern states - Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, and parts of northern Ukraine and northeastern Poland. This huge folio volume provides an introduction to Jewish history and culture starting with antiquity and leading methodically to the rise of Lithuanian Jewry some seven centuries ago." --Book Jacket.

Author : Vladas Sirutavičius,Darius Staliūnas
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9786155053184

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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.

Author : N. N. Shneidman
Publisher : Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015062115723

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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.