The Vanished World of Lithuanian Jews

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-420-0850-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

Reihe: On the Boundary of Two Worlds

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Nikžentaitis, Alvydas

Schreiner, Stefan

Staliunas, Darius

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Antisemitismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Leonidas DONSKIS: Preface
John D. KLIER: Traditions of the Commonwealth: Lithuanian Jewry and the Exercise of Political Power in Tsarist Russia
Darius STALIuNAS: 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 SIRUTAVICIUS: 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
Ceslovas LAURINAVICIUS: 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)
Arunas 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

Über Autor(innen)

Alvydas Nikžentaitis is Director of the Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius, Lithuania. He is the founder and the former director of the Centre for West Lithuanian and Prussian History at the University of Klaipeda, Lithuania. Areas of interest: the history of mediaeval Lithuania, Lithuania in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and stereotypes in historiography. He published several books in Lithuanian on the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Middle Ages, and is the author of the book, Witold i Jagiello. Polacy i Litwini we wzajemnym stereotypie [Vytautas and Jagiello. Poles and Lithuanians in Mutual Stereotyping] (Poznan, 2000).

Stefan Schreiner is Chair for History of Religion and Jewish Studies, and Head of the Institutum Judaicum at Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Germany. He is mainly engaged in the study of Polish-Jewish cultural history and the history and culture of the Karaites in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Darius Staliunas earned his doctorate from Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1997. Currently, he serves as Deputy Director of the Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius, Lithuania. The author of Visuomene be universiteto? (Aukštosios mokyklos atkurimo problema Lietuvoje: XIX a. vidurys–XX a. pradžia) [Society without a University? (On the Reestablishment of a Higher-Education Institution in Lithuania between the Mid-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries)] (Vilnius: Lithuanian History Institute Press, 2000).