Advertisement for Físhele brand soap alongside an image of the product with its Lithuanian product name Žuvelė, of the same meaning, “little fish”. From the 19 Feb. 1937 edition of the Kaunas Yiddish daily Ídishe shtíme (Žydų balsas— “Jewish Voice”), Cour
Culture

Vilnius Yiddish Reading Circle turning to prewar Kaunas

After a month of concentrating on prewar Yiddish newspapers from Vilnius (Yiddish Vílne), the weekly Yiddish Literary Reading Circle, now in its 17th year, turns in its next session, this coming Sunday, 18 October 2015 at 1 PM (1300) sharp, to readings from Yiddish newspapers in interwar Kaunas (Yiddish Kóvne). […]

Bronislaw Komorowski
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian PM discusses strategic cooperation with Poland’s Komorowski

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has met with former Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski to discuss the strategically important projects: power bridge LitPol Link, gas connection GIPL, and Poland‘s involvement in Rail Baltica. The prime minister congratulated the president on the award of Rokiškis honorary citizenship, thanking the president for his merits to Lithuania, the prime minister’s press service said. […]

Pora
Politics

Lithuanian parliament rejects civil partnership law

The Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, rejected the bill that would have introduced the institution of partnership of opposite sex couples. The Ministry of Justice, which drafted the law, says the proposed legislation merely acknowledges the existing forms of cohabitation, while the opponents insist that civil partnership is an encroachment on the institution of marriage and is just one step away from legalizing same-sex partnership. […]

Loreta Graužinienė, Viktor Uspaskich
Politics

Seimas speaker under criticism of former party leader

MEP Viktor Uspaskich, the founder and de facto leader of Lithuania’s Labour Party, has criticized fellow party member Loreta Graužinienė, the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, for her “passivity”, warning that “life does not end in the Seimas speaker chair” in reference to Graužinienė’s future political prospects. […]