Whenever I am asked to describe the international entity known by the strange name of BRICS, I start with a different answer. I do not understand what formally (or, perhaps more importantly, informally) unites Brazil, […]
I must confess that I have been part of the European-African political community for almost two decades, and South Africa has been my most frequent destination on this continent. Everyone says (still does) that it […]
“South Africa is more Litvak than Lithuania itself,” Markas Zingeris, the Lithuanian playwright and novelist once remarked. And, as one of very few members of Lithuania’s Jewish community to remain in the country, he would know. The vast majority of Lithuanian Jews have found good reason to leave at one time or another in history, whether it was unrest in Europe between 1868 and 1914, or the economic hardship that characterised the period from Lithuania’s independence in 1918 until June 1940 when the Soviet army took control. It was during this time that thousands of Lithuanians came to South Africa in droves, in search of a more peaceful life. And it is here where many have remained. […]
As a Cape Town born Jew, my life has come full circle. Although I was born after his death, my zeida, Rabbi Shimon Ze’ev Aysenberg, played an indelible influence in my life. My father, Isaac Eisenberg, born in a stable in Mogilov, Belarus, in 1922, a medical doctor and writer, spent his life interpreting his childhood memories. […]
Several hundred applications for Lithuanian citizenship have already been approved since the country amended the law last June to ease the rules for descendants of Jews who left Lithuania in the interwar period to apply for a Lithuanian passport. […]
August 29th, 2016, has become truly important day for Lithuanian people, for Israel, and for all of us who does not know the past term for Holocaust. On that day, a small Lithuanian town of Moletai has become a scene of tangible and penetrating lesson on the Shoah. It was a rare event – unpretending, quiet and sincere; determined and devoted; the real thing. […]
Following on from Hollywood star Sean Penn, it now appears that US president Barack Obama also has family links to Lithuania. […]
Amid complaints from Lithuanian Jewish Community representatives and Litvaks living in Israel and South Africa, at least two Lithuanian parliamentary committees are planning to look into the reasons why citizenship restoration applications from Jews who left the country in the interwar period and their descendants are being rejected. […]
On April 3, the Panama Papers hit media outlets around the world, and the fallout was swift. […]
Some Jews in Israel and the Republic of South Africa who left Lithuania between the two world wars and their descendants have been applying to have their Lithuanian citizenship restored, but receiving a negative answer. […]
In a series about those remarkable individuals who promote Lithuania’s image abroad and build the country’s brand around the world, Paul Berman, Lithuania’s Honorary Consul in South Africa, talks about his work for Lithuania. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday handed letters of credence to Sigutė Jakštonytė, the country’s first ambassador to the Republic of South Africa. […]
The Government of Lithuania on Friday approved candidates for three ambassadorial positions. […]
Lithuanian embassy in Pretoria, the South African Republic, could be opened in November. The related draft decree was prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. […]
Lithuania plans to open an embassy in the Republic of South Africa in November. […]
Earlier this week the media honoured Nadine Gordimer, a Nobel and Man Booker prize winning novelist with a wealth of obituaries. Gordimer died at the age of 90 on 13 July in her native South Africa. Reverent fans and curious new readers peppered social networks with quotations highlighting her defence of human rights and literary bravery in the face of censorship. […]
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