ISBN:
9783657705757
Language:
English
Edition:
2020
Year of publication:
2019
Series Statement:
On the Boundary of Two Worlds. Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics 44
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Holocaust
;
antisemitism
;
Jews
;
Baltic region
;
Lithuania
;
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
;
Russian Empire
;
BTW
Abstract:
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.
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