I did it all backward. Instead of taking my research trips before writing my book, like any normal historian would have, I’d waited. Only after I had completed my first draft of the book did I finally ...

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The Vilna Gaon had made an agreement with the trustees of his community that he was not to be summoned to a meeting unless it involved a proposed new communal regulation. Once, the trustees wanted to ...

More than three-quarters of the 80,000 Jews who remained in Vilna under Nazi occupation were executed last month in a mass-slaughter which has no equal in Jewish history, according to an eye-witness ...

rebellious teenage girl and a young poet - from the Vilna ghetto of Lithuania. A special concert version will be presented on Monday, October 16 at 7:00 p.m. at GREEN ROOM 42, Located in: YOTEL New ...

In Vilnius, Lithuania, an excavation of the Great Synagogue of Vilna has fully exposed the Aron Kodesh (Holy Ark) and the bimah (platform) that was destroyed 60 years ago by the Nazis and the Soviets.

"Vilna: A Resistance Story" is a new musical theater composition by Kevin and Allison Cloud with a book by Lisa Kenner Grissom. It tells the unfamiliar story of the roughly hundred thousand Vilna Jews ...

‘As a young girl I took it for granted I would go to university and be a professional, that I would be an artist and a doctor!” exclaimed septuagenarian Mira Jedwabnik Van Doren. Though she’s at an ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AFP) — On Sunday, Pope Francis will pay tribute to Holocaust victims at the Vilna ghetto memorial. Nazi Germany all but obliterated the once-vibrant Jewish community of the capital ...

The Vilna Gaon (Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, 1720–1797), widely regarded as one of the greatest Torah scholars in Jewish history, is often portrayed as the embodiment of pure Torah ...