Rokhl’s Golden City: The Yiddish past, present, and future of Vilnius
After a long absence, the Jewish staple has returned to the Lithuanian capital
And finding him—in Vilnius
My mother’s father, Moshe Vorobeichic, captured images of Lithuania’s Jews shortly before the community was murdered
Rokhl’s Golden City: A terrific new translation of Moyshe Nadir’s uproariously acidic take on Depression-era Jewish-American life
Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day: A state-sponsored institution in Vilnius rewrites history to the delight of Europe’s new ultranationalists
Locals and top Jewish historians are fighting to prevent the bulldozing of the burial site of one of Europe’s most historic Jewish communities
Researchers are excavating a 100-foot-long tunnel at the site of Ponar Forest massacre near Vilnius
The grandchild of Lithuanian Jews hidden during the Holocaust goes back
An explosive debate erupts from footnotes suggesting that Ashkenazi Jews are Europeans
Reigniting criticism of the country’s equation of the Holocaust and Soviet occupation
The reVILNA digital mapping project seeks to restore the lives that were lived before they became anonymous victims
Why this corner of the Shoah is often overlooked
And win a trip to Vilnius
The Lithuanian sponsors of a Holocaust education program have a dark history of their own
An American Jew brings bagels back to Vilnius
