T he Yiddish poet Chaim Grade survived World War II by fleeing his city, Vilna, now Vilnius, and wandering through the Soviet Union and its Central Asian republics. His wife and mother stayed ...

Vilna had become known as the Jerusalem of Eastern Europe. Vilna governance seesawed between Poland, the Russian Empire, and brief Lithuanian independences in the years prior to the second war.

Excavation of Destroyed Great Synagogue of Vilna Reveals 18th Century Treasures. By. David Israel - 20 Tammuz 5779 – July 23, 2019. 0. Share on Facebook. Tweet on Twitter ...

A FEARED outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine could herald the coming of the Messiah, scholars claim. A rabbi says it would fulfil a centuries-old prophecy by his famous ancestor Vilna Gaon, … ...

IN CONCERT: VILNA: A RESISTANCE STORY a musical looking at one of 20th century history's darkest times from a new and inspiring angle. Music & Lyrics by Kevin Cloud with a book by Lisa Kenner Grissom.

Fania Brantsovsky, the last survivor of the Vilna ghetto and a Yiddish culture advocate, died at 102, mourning a rich Jewish past. (JTA) — Lithuania’s Jews and Yiddishists around the world are ...

The dispute over Vilna, ancient capital of Lithuania, has been, to all intents and purposes, settled by the award of that town and a part of Eastern Galicia to Poland by the Council of Ambassadors ...

If you haven’t heard about the Jewish resistance fighters of Vilna during World War II, you’re not alone. Until three years ago, neither had the creators of “Vilna: A Resistance Story,” a ...

The Vilna Troupe toured Europe with the production, but during Nazi occupation of Lithuania, 95 percent of its estimated Jewish population of 265,000 was murdered. Advertisement.

Growing up in Vilna in the 1930s, Yitskhok Rudashevski was a typical 13-year-old Jewish boy living a typical Jewish life: He went to school, spent time with friends and family, ...