Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Around the Jewish World One of Lithuania’s Few Jews Fights to Rebuild Vilna Ghetto

It’s a shivery winter Shabbat evening and Emanuelis Zingeris is immersed in a spiritual moment at Europe’s largest synagogue. That would be normal enough, except that the Great Synagogue was destroyed ...
The Jewish Exponent

Archeologists Uncover Floor of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, Destroyed by the Nazis and Soviets

Jon Seligman of the Israel Antiquities Authority stands on the colorful floor of the main prayer hall of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, which was destroyed by the Nazis and has been undergoing ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Vilna, Jewish Town, Says Lithuanian Premier

The Lithuanian Prime Minister, Professor Valdemaras, in the course of an interview with the Kovno representative of the “Baltic Press.” speaking of the future of Vilna, ### answer to a question ...
The Forward

In Vilna, where thousands were murdered, I learned how difficult it is to mourn an absence

I did it all backward. Instead of taking my research trips before writing my book, like any normal historian would have, I’d waited. Only after I had completed my first draft of the book did I finally ...
Jewish Press

Bank of Lithuania Issues Silver Collectors’ Coin to Honor Vilna Gaon

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania announced in a tweet this week that the Bank of Lithuania will issue a 10-euro silver collectors’ coin to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Vilna ...
The Forward

YIVO Hopes To Digitize Lithuania Archives — But Where Is the Cash?

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. The YIVO ...
Time

LITHUANIA: Careful Smetona

The day after the recent Memel election, Lithuania’s President Antanas Smetona was inaugurated for his fourth term, remarked “we small countries must be careful.” Since the election—in which Menial’s ...