ISBN:
9789401200905
,
9789042008502
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Year of publication:
2004
Series Statement:
On the Boundary of Two Worlds 1
Series Statement:
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Vanished World of Lithuanian Jews
Keywords:
Jews Congresses Civilization
;
Jews Congresses History
;
Jews Congresses Social conditions
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Leonidas DONSKIS: Preface -- John D. KLIER: Traditions of the Commonwealth: Lithuanian Jewry and the Exercise of Political Power in Tsarist Russia -- Darius STALIŪNAS: Changes in the Political Situation and the "Jewish Question" in the Lithuanian Gubernias of the Russian Empire (1855-April 1863) -- Theodore R. WEEKS: Politics, Society, and Antisemitism: Peculiarities of the Russian Empire and Lithuanian Lands -- Vladas SIRUTAVIČIUS: Notes on the Origin and Development of Modern Lithuanian Antisemitism in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century and at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- Ezra MENDELSOHN: Some Remarks on the Jewish Condition in Interwar East Central Europe -- Eglè BENDIKAITÉ: Expressions of Litvak Pro-Lithuanian Political Orientation c. 1906-c.1921 -- Česlovas LAURINAVIČIUS: Lithuanian General Aspects of Domestic Policy 1918-1940 -- Saulius SUŽIEDÈLIS: The Historical Sources for Antisemitism in Lithuania and Jewsih-Lithuanian Relation during the 1930s -- Verena DOHRN: State and Minorities. The First Lithuanian Republic and S.M. Dubnov's Concept of Cultural Autonomy -- Yitzhak ARAD: The Murder of the Jews in German-Occupied Lithuania (1941-1944) -- Arūnas BUBNYS: The Holocaust in Lithuania: An Outline of the Major Stages at their Results -- Gershon GREENBERG: Holocaust and Musar for the Telšiai Yeshivah: Avraham Yitshak and Eliyahu Meir Bloch -- Yevgeni ROZENBLAT: The Holocaust in the Western Regions of Belarus -- Martin C. DEAN: Lithuanian Participation in the Mass Murder of Jews in Belarus and Ukraine (1941-1944) -- Joachim TAUBER: Coming to Terms with a Difficult Past -- Summaries -- About the Authors.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789401200905
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