The History of Jews in Lithuania : From the Middle Ages to the 1990s / Vladas Sirutavicius, Darius Staliunas, Jurgita Šiauciunaite-Verbickiene, Martyn Housden, Gustavs Strenga

• Superior document: On the Boundary of Two Worlds. Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics ; 44
• VerfasserIn: Sirutavicius, Vladas; Staliunas, Darius; Šiauciunaite-Verbickiene, Jurgita
• HerausgeberIn: Housden, Martyn; Strenga, Gustavs
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: On the Boundary of Two Worlds. Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics ; 44.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright Page --; Preface --; Jews in The Grand Duchy of Lithuania --; The Establishment of the Community and the Beginning of the Regulation of the Legal Status of the Jews /; The Status of the Jews: Social Segregation and Attempts at Integration /; Jewish Self-Government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Institutions and their Mode of Operation /; Jewish Economic Activity /; Relations between the Burghers and the Jews: Competition and the Search for Coexistence /; How Jews were Seen by the Society of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania /; The Background for the Emergence of a Central Eastern European Jewish Spiritual Centre /; Under the Rule of Tsars --; Social, Economic, Demographic and Geographical Characteristics of Lithuanian Jewry /; The Jewish Question in the Nineteenth Century /; The Relations between the Haskalah and Traditional Jewish Communities /; Jewish Literature and the Jewish Press in Lithuania in the Nineteenth and the First Half of the Twentieth Century /; Traditional Education and the Appearance of New Types of Schools before the First World War /; From Shtadlanut to Mass Parties: Jewish Political Movements in Lithuania /; Episodes in Lithuanian-Jewish Political Cooperation in the Early Twentieth Century /; Antisemitism in Lithuania in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century /; Jews in the Republic of Lithuania (1918–1940) --; Government Policy Towards the Jews /; Jewish National Autonomy /; Jews in the Economic Structure of Lithuania /; Cultural Transformations of the Lithuanian Jewish Community /; Ideological Differentiation between Jewish Schools /; The Network of Jewish Schools: Quantitative Changes /; Lithuanian and Jewish Communication in the Public Sphere: The Search for Mutual Awareness /; Outbreaks of Antisemitism /; Jewish Cultural Life in Interwar Vilnius /; The Jews of the Klaipėda Region in the Interwar Period /; The Second World War and the Holocaust --; Jews in Soviet Lithuania 1940–1941 /; The Holocaust in Lithuania 1941–1944 /; The Jewish Anti-Nazi Resistance /; Life after the Holocaust --; Jews in Soviet Lithuania. The Revival after the Holocaust /; Perestroika, Sąjūdis, 11 March 1990, and the Lithuanian Jews /; Concluding Remarks: Jews in Lithuania or Lithuanian Jews? --; Back Matter --; List of Figures --; Bibliography --; Lithuanian Place Names in Yiddish --; null.
• ISBN: 3657705759
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Vladas Sirutavicius, Darius Staliunas, Jurgita Šiauciunaite-Verbickiene, Martyn Housden, Gustavs Strenga

This book aims to create an integral picture of the social, economic and cultural history of the Jews in Lithuania during the course of more than six hundred years - from the Middle Ages to the 1990s. It is a translation of the study "Lietuvos žydai. Istorinė studija" (Engl. "Lithuanian Jews. Historical study"), published in Lithuanian in 2012. The Book was written by an interna-tional group of scholars from Lithuania, Israel, the United States of America and Germany. The world of Lithuanian Jewry is reconstructed through different aspects of the development of community and society: demography, social and economic activity, self-government institutions of the community, cultural and religious movements, literature and the press, education, discriminative policy of the authorities and relations with the dominant church, segregation, assimilation and changes of identity, anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust.