Jewish

The Great Synagogue of Vilna, once the Vatican of Europe's Jews (1)

The Great Synagogue of Vilna was once to Jewish culture and religion what the Vatican is to Christendom, say archaeologists from the United States and...

International team of scientists to investigate buried remains of Vilnius synagogue

A team of experts from the United Kingdom, Canada, Israel and Lithuania is starting to study the remains of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius and other ritual...

New Rokiškis award to honour Litvak war hero

The Rokiškis Regional Museum and the US-based non-profit organization Remembering Litvaks , have established a new research award, the volunteer Private...

The biggest global stars that you never knew were Lithuanian (1)

Lithuania gave the world many stellar personalities that have and continue to entertain, impress and influence the world. Here is our selection of ten global...

Chronicle of pre-war Litvak life: Vilnius Jewish archive made available online

Lithuanian specialists have digitized more than 80,000 pages of documents from a pre-war Jewish research institute in order to make them available online.