Jews of Lithuania and Latvia

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1463420765
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)

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Book Synopsis Jews of Lithuania and Latvia by : Keith W. Kaye

Download or read book Jews of Lithuania and Latvia written by Keith W. Kaye and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Jews of Lithuania and Latvia

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 146344303X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)

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Book Synopsis Jews of Lithuania and Latvia by : Keith W. Kaye

Download or read book Jews of Lithuania and Latvia written by Keith W. Kaye and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Vanished World of Lithuanian Jews

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042008502
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Book Synopsis The Vanished World of Lithuanian Jews by : Alvydas Nikžentaitis

Download or read book The Vanished World of Lithuanian Jews written by Alvydas Nikžentaitis and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Case for Latvia

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042024240
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis The Case for Latvia by : Jukka Rislakki

Download or read book The Case for Latvia written by Jukka Rislakki and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we know about Latvia and the Latvians? A Baltic (not Balkan) nation that emerged from fifty years under the Soviet Union - interrupted by a brief but brutal Nazi-German occupation and a devastating war - now a member of the European Union and NATO. Yes, but what else? Relentless accusations keep appearing, especially in Russian media, often repeated in the West: "Latvian soldiers single-handedly saved Lenin's revolution in 1917", "Latvians killed Tsar Nikolai II and the Royal family", "Latvia was a thoroughly anti-Semitic country and Latvians started killing Jews even before the Germans arrived in 1941", "Nazi revival is rampant in today's Latvia", "The Russian minority is persecuted in Latvia. . ." True, false or in-between? The Finnish journalist and author Jukka Rislakki examines charges like these and provides an outline of Latvia's recent history while attempting to separate documented historical fact from misinformation and deliberate disinformation. His analysis helps to explain why the Baltic States (population 7 million) consistently top the enemy lists in public opinion polls of Russia (143 million). His knowledge of the Baltic languages allows him to make use of local sources and up-to-date historical research. He is a former Baltic States correspondent for Finland's largest daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat and the author of several books on Finnish and Latvian history. As a neutral, experienced and often critical observer, Rislakki is uniquely qualified for the task of separating truth from fiction.

Protecting Our Litvak Heritage

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Publisher : Jewishgen.Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
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Book Synopsis Protecting Our Litvak Heritage by : Josef Rosin

Download or read book Protecting Our Litvak Heritage written by Josef Rosin and published by Jewishgen.Incorporated. This book was released on 2009 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted historian Rosin presents the history of 50 Jewish towns in Lithuania, providing information about the founding of the settlements, their development into vibrant communities, and their ultimate destruction in the Shoah (Holocaust).

Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 150150455X
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present by : Benjamin Hary

Download or read book Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present written by Benjamin Hary and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers sociological and structural descriptions of language varieties used in over 2 dozen Jewish communities around the world, along with synthesizing and theoretical chapters. Language descriptions focus on historical development, contemporary use, regional and social variation, structural features, and Hebrew/Aramaic loanwords. The book covers commonly researched language varieties, like Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, and Judeo-Arabic, as well as less commonly researched ones, like Judeo-Tat, Jewish Swedish, and Hebraized Amharic in Israel today.

The Last Million

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143110993
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Million by : David Nasaw

Download or read book The Last Million written by David Nasaw and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII In May 1945, after German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, millions of concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and Nazi collaborators were left behind in Germany, a nation in ruins. British and American soldiers attempted to repatriate the refugees, but more than a million displaced persons remained in Germany: Jews, Poles, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, and other Eastern Europeans who refused to go home or had no homes to return to. Most would eventually be resettled in lands suffering from postwar labor shortages, but no nation, including the United States, was willing to accept more than a handful of the 200,000 to 250,000 Jewish men, women, and children who remained trapped in Germany. When in June, 1948, the United States Congress passed legislation permitting the immigration of displaced persons, visas were granted to sizable numbers of war criminals and Nazi collaborators, but denied to 90% of the Jewish displaced persons. A masterwork from acclaimed historian David Nasaw, The Last Million tells the gripping but until now hidden story of postwar displacement and statelessness and of the Last Million, as they crossed from a broken past into an unknowable future, carrying with them their wounds, their fears, their hope, and their secrets. Here for the first time, Nasaw illuminates their incredible history and shows us how it is our history as well.

Joining Hitler's Crusade

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316510344
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Joining Hitler's Crusade by : David Stahel

Download or read book Joining Hitler's Crusade written by David Stahel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking study that looks at why European nations sent troops to take part in Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.

Lithuanian Jewish Culture

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Publisher : Art Stock Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789639776517
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (765 download)

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Book Synopsis Lithuanian Jewish Culture by : Dovid Katz

Download or read book Lithuanian Jewish Culture written by Dovid Katz and published by Art Stock Books Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795

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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295803622
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Book Synopsis The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795 by : Daniel Z. Stone

Download or read book The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795 written by Daniel Z. Stone and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four centuries, the Polish�Lithuanian state encompassed a major geographic region comparable to present-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Estonia, and Romania. Governed by a constitutional monarchy that offered the numerous nobility extensive civil and political rights, it enjoyed unusual domestic tranquility, for its military strength kept most enemies at bay until the mid-seventeenth century and the country generally avoided civil wars. Selling grain and timber to western Europe helped make it exceptionally wealthy for much of the period. The Polish�Lithuanian State, 1386�1795 is the first account in English devoted specifically to this important era. It takes a regional rather than a national approach, considering the internal development of the Ukrainian, Jewish, Lithuanian, and Prussian German nations that coexisted with the Poles in this multinational state. Presenting Jewish history also clarifies urban history, because Jews lived in the unincorporated "private cities" and suburbs, which historians have overlooked in favor of incorporated "royal cities." In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the private cities and suburbs often thrived while the inner cities decayed. The book also traces the institutional development of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland�Lithuania, one of the few European states to escape bloody religious conflict during the Reformation and Counter Reformation. Both seasoned historians and general readers will appreciate the many excellent brief biographies that advance the narrative and illuminate the subject matter of this comprehensive and absorbing volume.

A Pragmatic Alliance

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Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155053189
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)

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Book Synopsis A Pragmatic Alliance by : Vladas Sirutavičius

Download or read book A Pragmatic Alliance written by Vladas Sirutavičius and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Litvaks

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9789653080843
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis The Litvaks by : Dov Levin

Download or read book The Litvaks written by Dov Levin and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lithuania was home to the great yeshivot of Jewish learning, as well as nationalistic movements such as Hovevei Zion, the Bund, and the Mizrachi. The 20th century saw the establishment of a modern Hebrew Zionist educational system in the period between the two world wars.This volume includes special features such as a bibliography in seven languages, a lexicon of place names in both official modern transcription and the traditional spelling used by Jewish residents; statistical tables; facsimiles of documents, and unique photographs many of which appear in print for the first time.

Past for the Eyes

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Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155211434
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (552 download)

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Book Synopsis Past for the Eyes by : Oksana Sarkisova

Download or read book Past for the Eyes written by Oksana Sarkisova and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do museums and cinema shape the image of the Communist past in today’s Central and Eastern Europe? This volume is the first systematic analysis of how visual techniques are used to understand and put into context the former regimes. After history “ended” in the Eastern Bloc in 1989, museums and other memorials mushroomed all over the region. These efforts tried both to explain the meaning of this lost history, as well as to shape public opinion on their society’s shared post-war heritage. Museums and films made political use of recollections of the recent past, and employed selected museum, memorial, and media tools and tactics to make its political intent historically credible. Thirteen essays from scholars around the region take a fresh look at the subject as they address the strategies of fashioning popular perceptions of the recent past.

The Tragedy of a Generation

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674074947
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis The Tragedy of a Generation by : Joshua M. Karlip

Download or read book The Tragedy of a Generation written by Joshua M. Karlip and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tragedy of a Generation is the story of a failed ideal: an autonomous Jewish nation in Europe. It traces the origins of two influential strains of Jewish thought—Yiddishism and Diaspora Nationalism—and documents the waning hopes and painful reassessments of their leading representatives against the rising tide of Nazism and the Holocaust.

The Murder of the Jews in Latvia

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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810117297
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (172 download)

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Book Synopsis The Murder of the Jews in Latvia by : Bernhard Press

Download or read book The Murder of the Jews in Latvia written by Bernhard Press and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenging account of the systematic and brutal slaughter of Jews in Latvia during the Second World War.

Our People

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538133040
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Book Synopsis Our People by : Ruta Vanagaite

Download or read book Our People written by Ruta Vanagaite and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

If I Forget Thee--

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
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Book Synopsis If I Forget Thee-- by : Riva Lozansky

Download or read book If I Forget Thee-- written by Riva Lozansky and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: