Litvak

  • Global LT

Lithuania’s U-turn on granting citizenship to Litvaks

Some Jews in Israel and the Republic of South Africa who left Lithuania between the two world wars and their…

9 years ago
  • Society

British expat peels layers of Litvak history in Kaunas

People like anniversaries, and 75 years since the establishment of Kaunas Ghetto is a good opportunity to remember the history…

9 years ago
  • Culture

’75 year-long musical composition’ to be played to commemorate Lithuania’s Holocaust victims

The award-winning founder and director of the International Centre for Litvak Photography Richard Schofield recently commissioned a piece of music…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE

Lithuania advertised as ‘Jerusalem of the North’ on streets of Israel

Lithuania is promoting to Israeli tourists as the ‘Jerusalem of the North” as this week Lithuania’s tourist authorities presented the…

9 years ago
  • Culture

“Revenant” cinematographer of Lithuanian descent tipped for Oscar

The cinematographer for Revenant, the film leading the race for this year’s Oscars with 12 nominations, is of Lithuanian Litvak…

9 years ago
  • Society

Hanukkah in Kaunas with Chassidic pop and traditional latkes

Residents of Kaunas and exchange students curiously glanced at a crowd, standing outside despite the cold around an imposing metal…

9 years ago
  • Society

Hanukkah in Vilnius

This past Sunday, hundreds of people, Jewish and non-Jewish, packed into the Choral Synagogue on Pylimo Street to launch the…

9 years ago
  • Culture

Vilnius Yiddish Reading Circle turns to Lithuanian Yiddish women educators

The Vilnius Yiddish Reading Circle, which is celebrating its seventeenth year, has been concentrating this autumn on prewar Yiddish newspapers…

9 years ago
  • Global LT

Litvaks’ public diplomacy is important to Lithuania, President Grybauskaitė says

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė opened the first ever Israeli Litvak Forum in Tel Aviv. In her address to Jews with…

9 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

President Grybauskaitė: Difficult challenges for Lithuania and Israel

President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is in Israel on an official visit, met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. The meeting -…

9 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

President Grybauskaitė says her visit to Israel to give new momentum to relations

President Dalia Grybauskaitė is making an official visit to Israel on 19-21 October. She will be accompanied by the ministers…

9 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuanian foreign minister meets with Jewish organisations in New York

During the session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on 2 October, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas…

9 years ago
  • Culture

Monument for Gandhi and his Litvak friend unveiled in west Lithuania

A sculpture depicting India's independence leader Mahatma Gandhi and his Jewish-Lithuanian architect friend Hermann Kallenbach was unveiled in the town…

9 years ago
  • Culture

Holocaust by Bullets exhibit at Vilna Gaon Jewish Museum

The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum presents the exhibit, Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad - In Unum - 10 Years of…

9 years ago
  • Culture

Vilna Yiddish literary reading circle invites to its next meeting

After a successful experiment at the first session it was decided that each week’s session would start with an intriguing…

9 years ago
  • Culture

Kaunas undertakes to clean up old Jewish cemetery

The municipality of Lithuania's second-largest city Kaunas is beginning to clean up an old Jewish cemetery in Žaliakalnis, with identification…

9 years ago
  • Society

Names of Holocaust victims to be read for 5th time in Lithuania

The names of Holocaust victims will be read publicly in several Lithuanian cities and towns on Tuesday, September 22, on…

9 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuanian PM pays tribute to Holocaust victims in Jerusalem

Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust in the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem…

9 years ago
  • Society

Synagogue memorial inaugurated in Rokiškis

On 6 September, the European Day of Jewish Culture, the Litvak community of Rokiškis unveiled an information stand on Sinagogų…

9 years ago
  • Global LT

Chicago’s Consulate General moving to new premises in Lithuanian diaspora capital

Sitting on the southern shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago is an important transport, financial and cultural hub. It hosts world-class…

9 years ago