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Center for Studies of the Culture and History of East European Jews (Lithuanian: Rytų Europos žydų kultūros ir istorijos tyrimų centras) was established in 2004 in Vilnius, Lithuania, to explore the heritage of Jewish national communities in Lithuania and its neighbouring countries.
The Art of Lithuania's Jews exhibition was opened in Kaunas and Vilnius in 1988 as the first public display of Jewish culture anywhere in the Soviet Union. [21] Lithuanian Jewish Cultural Association was established in 1988 and it was renamed into the Lithuanian Jewish Community in 1991. [21]
The site of the Synagogue today. The Vilna Gaon monument is at the right. The synagogue was looted, burned and partly destroyed by the Nazis during World War II. The ruined synagogue and the whole "schulhof" complex that had grown around it were demolished by the Soviet authorities from 1955 to 1957 and were intentionally replaced by a basketball court and a kindergarten to effectively prevent ...
Old Jewish Cemetery of Vilnius. 1487 – An Old Jewish Cemetery of Vilnius is said to open this year, likely for the few Jewish merchants and/or tax collectors who had permission to reside there. [5] 1492 – Casimir IV dies and is succeeded by his two sons, John I Albert in Poland and Alexander Jagiellon in Lithuania.
Lithuania. Kaunas. Arbeter Tsajtung; Vilnius. Folks-shtime; Der proletarisher gedank (1906–1907) Der yidisher arbeyter; Flugblat (1915–1916) ... List of Jewish ...
VILNIUS (Reuters) -Lithuania's new centre-left government took office on Thursday, led by Social Democrat Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas and including a party whose leader is on trial accused ...
Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History (Lithuanian: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono Žydụ Muziejus; Yiddish: דער ווילנער גאון מלוכהשער יידישער מוז, romanized: Der Vilner Gaun Mlukhhsher Eydisher Muz) is a Lithuanian museum dedicated to the historical and cultural heritage of Lithuanian Jewry.
Di royte fon ('The Red Banner') was a Yiddish-language daily newspaper, published in Vilna between August 1, 1920, and August 24, 1920. It was an organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Lithuania and Belorussia. [1] Moisei Rafes was the editor of Di royte fon. [2]