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The Messiah Comes to America!

Rokhl’s Golden City: A terrific new translation of Moyshe Nadir’s uproariously acidic take on Depression-era Jewish-American life

By Rokhl Kafrissen · June 6, 2018

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Lithuania’s Museum of Holocaust Denial

Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day: A state-sponsored institution in Vilnius rewrites history to the delight of Europe’s new ultranationalists

By Dovid Katz · April 11, 2018

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Lithuania Is Building a Convention Center Over Vilna’s Jewish Cemetery. Here’s How You Can Protest.

Locals and top Jewish historians are fighting to prevent the bulldozing of the burial site of one of Europe’s most historic Jewish communities

By Yair Rosenberg · January 9, 2017

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Get Your (Scape)goat

This week on Unorthodox, rabbinic student Deena Gottlieb and Muslim writer and commentator Arsalan Iftikhar

By Unorthodox · July 28, 2016

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Holocaust-Era Escape Tunnel, Dug by Prisoners Using Their Hands and Spoons, Uncovered in Lithuania

Researchers are excavating a 100-foot-long tunnel at the site of Ponar Forest massacre near Vilnius

By Jesse Bernstein · June 29, 2016

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Finding History—and Myself—in Vilnius

The grandchild of Lithuanian Jews hidden during the Holocaust goes back

By Maia Ipp · January 26, 2015

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Where Did Yiddish Come From?

An explosive debate erupts from footnotes suggesting that Ashkenazi Jews are Europeans

By Cherie Woodworth · June 16, 2014

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Lithuanian Jews to Get Reparations

Reigniting criticism of the country’s equation of the Holocaust and Soviet occupation

By Stephanie Butnick · November 7, 2013

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A New Interactive Map of the Vilna Ghetto Asks: What Good Is History if It Isn’t Told?

The reVILNA digital mapping project seeks to restore the lives that were lived before they became anonymous victims

By Menachem Kaiser · June 20, 2013

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Lithuanian Holocaust Memorial Vandalized

Why this corner of the Shoah is often overlooked

By Marc Tracy · July 26, 2011

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Write About Your (East-European) Roots

And win a trip to Vilnius

By Marc Tracy · January 5, 2011

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Conference Call

The Lithuanian sponsors of a Holocaust education program have a dark history of their own

By Dovid Katz · December 3, 2010

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Holey Mission

An American Jew brings bagels back to Vilnius

By Menachem Kaiser · October 19, 2010