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  • Alexander Wolkowyski (later Alexander Tamir), right, at liberation
    Alexander Wolkowyski (later Alexander Tamir), right, at liberation
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    The Remarkable Story of ‘Shtiler, Shtiler’

    On the anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, how one of the era’s most famous Jewish songs was written by an 11-year-old boy

    byAviad Te’eni
  • Artifacts displayed at the Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius.
    Artifacts displayed at the Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius.
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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

    byDovid Katz
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    How Did Itzik Wittenberg, Hero of the Vilna Ghetto, Die?

    The answer defines moral views of resistance and martyrdom, and says more about the version of history being told than it does about Wittenberg himself

    byMenachem Kaiser
  • (Photoilustration Tablet Magazine; original photo J. Henning Buchholz/Shutterstock.com)
    (Photoilustration Tablet Magazine; original photo J. Henning Buchholz/Shutterstock.com)
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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

    byMenachem Kaiser
  • The cover of a 1973 issue of Di Goldene Keyt.(National Yiddish Book Center)
    The cover of a 1973 issue of Di Goldene Keyt.(National Yiddish Book Center)
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    Gilded

    The literary journal Di Goldene Keyt nurtured Yiddish writers in Israel and the Diaspora—and made an author in Baltimore dream

    byZackary Sholem Berger
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    Interiors

    Three remarkably realist Marc Chagall paintings of synagogues, to be sold at Sotheby’s tomorrow, tell the story of the artist’s Zionism

    byJeannie Rosenfeld
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    Golden Link

    The epic life of Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, who died last week at 96

    byZackary Sholem Berger
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    Three Poems By Avrom Sutzkever

    ‘How,’ ‘The Lead Plates at the Rom Press,’ and ‘1981’

    byAvrom Sutzkever
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