Posts Tagged: Lithuanian Jews
The Remarkable — and Tragic — History of a Ukrainian Jewish Town
Located approximately 130 miles south of Kyiv on the Umanka River, Uman is a well-known city that was part of Poland-Lithuania until the 1793 Partition...
Lithuania’s Past, Antisemitism, and Israel
Lithuanians generally prefer to approach their own history by honoring their fighters for resisting Soviet rule -- and ignoring their active collaboration with the Nazis....
Baltic Jews Fear Revival of Holocaust-era Hatred Following Antisemitic Incidents
Fox News - Jews in the Baltics fear a series of disturbing events in the three-nation region of Eastern Europe may be signaling a revival...
Purim in Lithuania? A Season for State-Approved Neo-Nazi City-Center Marches
Since the Holocaust, Purim and the Book of Esther cannot be taken only in the light-hearted spirit of the merriest of holidays. Words presaging the scourges...
“Every Time I look at Her I See the German Jew in Her Face”
A Jewish Democratic Congressman caught tweeting a young blonde during the State of the Union address given by U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday had...
Crying Over Dead Jews: Lithuania’s Jewless Jewish Institutions
Lithuania's Jewish community isn't immune from the broader issues facing Jewish existence in Eastern Europe and the same problems of Jewish identity that...
Respectable Memoir, Some Shrewd Manipulation by an East European Government “• or Both?
Review of We Are Here. Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust. By Ellen Cassedy. University of Nebraska Press, 273 pp. Paperback $19.95. What do you do...
Washington Author Launches Petition to Stop This Year’s Neo-Nazi March in Lithuanian Capital
Since 2008, an annual March 11th neo-Nazi march has been held with legal permits from the government and police protection on the main boulevard of...
Lithuanian Daily’s Anti-Semitic Trend Line
On January 15th, the Lietuvos rytas website (Lrytas.lt) published an article by veteran Holocaust denier Petras Stankeras, who was forced out of his Interior Ministry...
