Pondering the Past: The Tragic Story of Lithuanian Jewry

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Publisher : Gefen Books
ISBN 13 : 9789657023235
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (232 download)

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Book Synopsis Pondering the Past: The Tragic Story of Lithuanian Jewry by : Meir Pinsk

Download or read book Pondering the Past: The Tragic Story of Lithuanian Jewry written by Meir Pinsk and published by Gefen Books. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys the rich history of Lithuanian Jewry from the turn of the first millennium to its devastating conclusion during the Second World War, when the Lithuanian Jewish communities were totally wiped out by the Nazis and their collaborators. The participation of many Lithuanians in the persecution of the local Jews is a topic that is hardly popu¬lar in the modern independent state of Lithuania. Pondering the Past counters Lithuanian historians' attempt to justify the mass murder. Archival materials disprove various false ac¬cusations and myths that the Lithuanians fabricated against the Jews. Dr. Pinsk has traveled to Lithuania many times, both to the major cities and small towns. The war monuments and killing pits serve as a constant reminder of the tragedy of the Jews on Lithuanian soil. These emotional visits inspired him to reflect on the past and the present of Lithuania, whose Jewish population today numbers merely four thousand individuals. He surveys the enduring anti-Semitism of this country. He also relates the story of several hundred brave Lithuanians who saved some Jews and describes the new generation of Lithuanians.

The Litvaks

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1571812644
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (718 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 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

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Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1461629381
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Book Synopsis Lithuanian Jewish Communities by : Nancy Schoenburg

Download or read book Lithuanian Jewish Communities written by Nancy Schoenburg and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Vanished World of Lithuanian Jews

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401200904
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Vanished World of Lithuanian Jews written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 339 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 Telšiai (2001), Lithuania. Participants came from Israel, the USA, Great Britain, Poland, Russia, Belarus, Germany, and Lithuania.

The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry by : Efroim Oshry

Download or read book The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry written by Efroim Oshry and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pt. 1 (pp. 1-173), "The Kovno Ghetto, 1941-1944", is a history and memoir by Oshry, a former student at the Slobodka Yeshiva. Figured prominently are many great Torah scholars, as well as simple Jews (including children) whose spiritual resistance to the Nazis included devotion to religious practice to the point of martyrdom. Oshry, a rabbi, survived until liberation in a hidden bunker for 38 days. Pt. 2 (pp. 178-291), "The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry: The Cities and Towns of Jewish Lithuania", provides short histories of 47 communities, with a focus on their outstanding religious personalities and institutions, and an account of the destruction of each of these communities and almost all of their inhabitants during the Holocaust.

The Last Bright Days

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Publisher : Jewish Heritage Project
ISBN 13 : 9780967769790
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (697 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Bright Days by : Frank Buonagurio

Download or read book The Last Bright Days written by Frank Buonagurio and published by Jewish Heritage Project. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Last Bright Days is a moving portrait of Jewish life during the 1930's in the small Lithuanian shtetl of Kavarsk and the personal story of one of its inhabitants, Beile Delechky. In 1938, as Europe was about to plunge into the darkness of war and genocide, Beile emigrated to the United States, leaving her family behind but bringing with her hundreds of photographs and dozens of her notebooks. Over one hundred of these compelling photographs, reproduced in The Last Bright Days, give us a fascinating look back in time to a Jewish world that existed within Eastern Eruope and was destroyed forever in the Holocaust. Beile's journal entries and poetry give us a window into the emotional life of a young woman coming of age in a small town as the problems of the wider world close in around her. Beile left Lithuania for America excited to be going to a new home and determined to find happiness. But her hopes for happiness would always be tempered by the memories of the family in Lithuania she so tragically lost. Beile never returned to Kavarsk. Her photographs and journals helped preserve her memories of growing up in the Jewish world of Lithuania in the days before that culture was lost forever. They give the rest of us a poignant glimpse of those last bright days."--from publisher's description.

Jews in the Former Grand Duchy of Lithuania Since 1772

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Publisher : Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
ISBN 13 : 9781904113935
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (139 download)

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Book Synopsis Jews in the Former Grand Duchy of Lithuania Since 1772 by : Šarūnas Liekis

Download or read book Jews in the Former Grand Duchy of Lithuania Since 1772 written by Šarūnas Liekis and published by Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry. This book was released on 2013 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of Polin, based on scholarship that has emerged since the fall of communism, is a wide-ranging contribution to the complex history of the Jews in Lithuania. Focusing on the specific character of Lithuanian Jewry, the volume opens by examining how their relationship with the surrounding society developed after 1772, both under tsarist rule and then in independent Lithuania. Moving to more recent times, the devastating impact on the Jewish community of the Soviet and Nazi occupations during the Second World War is discussed, as are the further negative consequences on Jewish life of the reoccupation of the country by the Soviets between 1944 and 1990. The volume concludes with material on the slow revival of Jewish life since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the re-emergence of an independent Lithuania, which was accompanied by the revival of many disciplines, such as the study of Jewish history, repressed by Soviet censorship. This revived interest in the country's Jewish past is now playing a key role in the broader transformation of historical memory of the post-Soviet era and the problem of coming to terms with the widespread local collaboration in Lithuania during the Holocaust - a process which has led to important scholarly advances but also to bitter controversy. Collectively, the studies in this volume contribute to a better understanding of the complex history of the Jews in Lithuania and of Lithuanian - Jewish relations and constitute a part of the necessary process of creating a more rounded and inclusive history of the country. CONTRIBUTORS Aelita Ambruleviciute, Marta Aleksandra Balinska, Egle Bendikaite, Michael Casper, Ellen Cassedy, Immanuel Etkes, David E. Fishman, Jack Jacobs, Grigory Kanovich, Saulius Suziedelis, Andrey Krotau, Larisa Lempertiene, Aearunas Liekis, Miriam Offer, Avi Ohry, Karin Ohry-Kossoy, Ausra Pazeraite, Antony Polonsky, Anna P. Ronell, Vladas Sirutavicius, Darius Staliunas, Saulius SuA iedelis, Vytautas Toleikis, Anna Verschik, Theodore R. Weeks, Mordechai Zalkin.

Jerusalem of Lithuania

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Publisher : Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Jerusalem of Lithuania by : N. N. Shneidman

Download or read book Jerusalem of Lithuania written by N. N. Shneidman and published by Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Tales from My Father's Home Kupishok, Lithuania

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Publisher : Jewishgen.Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781954176171
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (761 download)

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Book Synopsis Tales from My Father's Home Kupishok, Lithuania by : Shlomo Kodesh

Download or read book Tales from My Father's Home Kupishok, Lithuania written by Shlomo Kodesh and published by Jewishgen.Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every man has a story - his own life story. It starts in his father's home, in the fields and meadows of a man's childhood. This, undoubtedly, is the nucleus. This nucleus is well preserved, and it blossoms on rare occasions in the conditions which stimulate growth. The development of the story is not continuous. It has its breaks and winter slumber, but it awakens and presses on with some changes. Occasionally, it repeats itself but in other cases sails on to unexpected destinations. This is the way my story moves too. It opens in the small township of Kupishok, which, for me, includes the whole of my Lithuania, the Jewish Lithuania, the Lithuania that is gone forever. The Lithuanian stories started in my hometown. When I left the country, the stories continued to accompany me. Nevertheless, the story inclination has become even stronger after the great ruin. Moreover, the experiences that I used to consider meaningless and unimportant appear today as significant and worth describing.

Resistance and Survival

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Publisher : Mosaic Press
ISBN 13 : 1771610484
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Book Synopsis Resistance and Survival by : Sara Ginaite-Rubinson

Download or read book Resistance and Survival written by Sara Ginaite-Rubinson and published by Mosaic Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of author Sara Ginaite-Rubinson at the start of her memoir is iconic in terms of the Jewish Resistance movement during WWII, and is featured prominently in the Holocaust Museum. First published in Lithuania in 1999, this book received very wide critical acclaim and is now considered one of the seminal works on Lithuanian Jewry during the Holocaust period. It is co-published with the Holocaust Centre of Toronto, UJA Federation

The History of Jews in Lithuania

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Publisher : Brill Schoningh
ISBN 13 : 9783657705757
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (57 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of Jews in Lithuania by : Vladas Sirutavičius

Download or read book The History of Jews in Lithuania written by Vladas Sirutavičius and published by Brill Schoningh. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Truth and Nothing But the Truth

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Publisher : Gefen Publishing House Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9789652293640
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis The Truth and Nothing But the Truth by : Aleks Faitelson

Download or read book The Truth and Nothing But the Truth written by Aleks Faitelson and published by Gefen Publishing House Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the authors twelfth book, Faitelson tells the exhaustive and authentic story of the escape from the Ninth Fort at Kovno. Faitelsons original account was published in seven languages. This new edition presents a broad gallery of cynical and cruel Nazi murderers wild beasts on two legs, the organisers and leaders of the mass murder of the Jews of Kovno, as well as the thousands of Jews brought to the Ninth Fort from central and western Europe. At the same time, there is a description of the Actions the mass murders of men, women, children and the elderly whose only crime was to be born to a Jewish mother. At the heart of the story are the corpse-burners, the preparations they made to escape from hell, the escape itself and the fate of the escapees.

Our People

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781538133033
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis Our People by : Rūta Vanagaitė

Download or read book Our People written by Rūta Vanagaitė and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling 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. Focusing on the central role played by ordinary Lithuanians, they expose the efforts of past and current Lithuanian governments to hide these crimes.

The Shadow of Death

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813117674
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Book Synopsis The Shadow of Death by : Harry Gordon

Download or read book The Shadow of Death written by Harry Gordon and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Holocaust survivor Harry Gordon recalls in brutal detail the anguished years of his youth, a youth spent struggling to survive in a Lithuanian concentration camp. A memoir about hope and resilience, The Shadow of Death describes the invasion of Kovno by the Red Army and the impact of Soviet occupation from the perspective of the ghetto's weakest and poorest class. It also serves as a reminder that the Germans were not alone responsible for the persecution and extermination of Jews.

Undigested Past

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 940120070X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Undigested Past by : Robert van Voren

Download or read book Undigested Past written by Robert van Voren and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Lithuanian Historical Background -- Origins of Anti-Semitism -- Jewish Life in Lithuania between World Wars -- The Holocaust in Lithuania -- Issues of Compliance and Collaboration -- The Human Dimension -- Why Did it Happen? -- From Black and White to Shades of Grey -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- About the Author.

The Tragic Pages of Lithuanian History

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ISBN 13 : 9786094085925
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (859 download)

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Book Synopsis The Tragic Pages of Lithuanian History by : Vladas Terleckas

Download or read book The Tragic Pages of Lithuanian History written by Vladas Terleckas and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fighting Back

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Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
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Book Synopsis Fighting Back by : Dov Levin

Download or read book Fighting Back written by Dov Levin and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: