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.

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.

Table of Contents

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 / Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė -- The Status of the Jews: Social Segregation and Attempts at Integration / Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė -- Jewish Self-Government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Institutions and their Mode of Operation / Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė -- Jewish Economic Activity / Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė -- Relations between the Burghers and the Jews: Competition and the Search for Coexistence / Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė -- How Jews were Seen by the Society of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania / Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė -- The Background for the Emergence of a Central Eastern European Jewish Spiritual Centre / Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė -- Under the Rule of Tsars -- Social, Economic, Demographic and Geographical Characteristics of Lithuanian Jewry / Vladimir Levin -- The Jewish Question in the Nineteenth Century / Darius Staliūnas -- The Relations between the Haskalah and Traditional Jewish Communities / Mordechai Zalkin -- Jewish Literature and the Jewish Press in Lithuania in the Nineteenth and the First Half of the Twentieth Century / Lara Lempertienė -- Traditional Education and the Appearance of New Types of Schools before the First World War / Shaul Stampfer -- From Shtadlanut to Mass Parties: Jewish Political Movements in Lithuania / David E. Fishman -- Episodes in Lithuanian-Jewish Political Cooperation in the Early Twentieth Century / Darius Staliūnas -- Antisemitism in Lithuania in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century / Darius Staliūnas -- Jews in the Republic of Lithuania (1918–1940) -- Government Policy Towards the Jews / Vladas Sirutavičius -- Jewish National Autonomy / Mordechai Zalkin -- Jews in the Economic Structure of Lithuania / Gediminas Vaskela -- Cultural Transformations of the Lithuanian Jewish Community / Mordechai Zalkin -- Ideological Differentiation between Jewish Schools / Mordechai Zalkin -- The Network of Jewish Schools: Quantitative Changes / Saulius Kaubrys -- Lithuanian and Jewish Communication in the Public Sphere: The Search for Mutual Awareness / Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė -- Outbreaks of Antisemitism / Vladas Sirutavičius -- Jewish Cultural Life in Interwar Vilnius / Mordechai Zalkin -- The Jews of the Klaipėda Region in the Interwar Period / Ruth Leiserowitz -- The Second World War and the Holocaust -- Jews in Soviet Lithuania 1940–1941 / Arūnas Bubnys -- The Holocaust in Lithuania 1941–1944 / Arūnas Bubnys -- The Jewish Anti-Nazi Resistance / Arūnas Bubnys -- Life after the Holocaust -- Jews in Soviet Lithuania. The Revival after the Holocaust / Samuel Barnai -- Perestroika, Sąjūdis, 11 March 1990, and the Lithuanian Jews / Vladas Sirutavičius -- Concluding Remarks: Jews in Lithuania or Lithuanian Jews? -- Back Matter -- List of Figures -- Bibliography -- Lithuanian Place Names in Yiddish -- null.