Lithuanian Jerusalem
Jewish culture flourished in Lithuania since the medieval ages, when Lithuania was known as "Northern Jerusalem". Its dukes, starting with Vytautas Magnus in AD 1388, encouraged Jewish migration to Lithuania. In some Lithuanian towns Jews began to outnumber the Christian population and yeshivas of Lithuania became important centres of Talmudic studies. There was even a unique Jewish civil autonomy during the interwar period from 1918 to 1925. Nazi occupation destroyed Northern Jerusalem. In no other occupied European country was almost the entire community _ 90 percent of population - massacred. The selection of books below is dedicated mainly to the 1941-1944 tragedy. A brief overview of the 600 years of Jewish history in Lithuania is published in the book "The Peoples of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania", described above.
Synagogues in Lithuania. A Catalogue (A-M)
Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, Sergey Kravtsov, Vladimir Levin, Giedrė Mickūnaitė, Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė
The need for cataloguing the surviving synagogues in their present state, researching and reviewing their history and architecture, arose from the desire to preserve these buildings at least in written and visual form if not as structures of wood and brick.
The publication offers a catalogue of the extant synagogue buildings identified by a team of Israeli and Lithuanian scholars. It also includes short overviews of the history of the Jewish communities and information about vanished synagogues.
Publisher Vilnius Academy of Arts Press, 2010, 333 pages, paperback, ISBN: 9789955854609
In English
Price € 29.50 (Delivery price included)
Lithuanian Jewish Culture. 2nd edition
Dovid Katz
It is the most comprehensive work ever to appear in English on the cultural, linguistic and spiritual worlds of the Litvaks - the Jews hailing from the lands of the medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuanian and its successor modern states – Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, and parts of northern Ukraine and northeaster Poland.
This 400 page volume contains 325 rare photographic images collected by the author, many appearing in print for the first time. There are also 26 maps and charts, all of which are newly produced specially for this volume by Dr. Giedrė Beconytė of Vilnius University's Centre for Cartography.
Publisher Baltos lankos, 2009, 400 pages, hard cover, 25x29 cm, ISBN: 9789639776517
In English
Price € 110.00 (Delivery price included)
Vilnius: Jewish Echoes
Hundreds of synagogues and study houses of Vilnius were filled with young students and elderly Jews studying Torah and Talmud. In its narrow urban quarters, Jewish life pulsated with yeshivas, schools, libraries, publishing houses, shops and street peddlers...
Publisher Darlis, 2009, 95 pages, hard cover, ISBN: 9789986821151
In English
Price € 23.50 (Delivery price included)
Ašmenos, Svierių, Švenčionių apskričių getai: kalinių sąrašai, 1942 / Гетто Ошмянского, Свирского, Швянченского уездов: списки узников, 1942 / The ghettos of Oshmyany, Svir, Švenčionys regions: lists of prisoners, 1942
Irina Guzenberg, Olga Movšovič, Jevgenija Sedova
Publisher Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono žydų muziejus, 2009, 720 pages, hard cover, ISBN: 9789955767022
In Lithuanian, Russian, English
Price € 26.99 (Delivery price included)
Sounds of silence: traces of Jewish life in Lithuania: album
Raimondas Paknys (photos), Dovid Katz (preface author and consultant), Isaac Zibuts (project)
Publisher R. Paknio leidykla, 2009, 201 pages, hard cover, ISBN: 9789955736271
In English
Price € 54.50 (Delivery price included)
Windows to a Lost Jewish Past. Vilna book stamps
Dovid Katz
Publisher Versus aueus, 2008, 110 pages, hard cover, ISBN: 9789955341200
In English
Price € 12.99 (Delivery price included)
A Disappearing Heritage: The Synagogue Architecture of Lithuania
Marija Rupeikienė
Publisher E. Karpavičius Publishers, 2008, 189 pages, hard cover, ISBN: 9789955878025
In English
Price € 21.50 (Delivery price included)
Vilniaus Geto afišos. Albumas-katalogas/Vilna Ghetto Posters. Album-Catalogue
Compiled by Jevgenija Biber, Rocha Kostanian, Judita Rozina
Publisher Vilna Gaon Jewish Museum, 2006, 371 pages, hard cover, ISBN: 9955230584
In Lithuanian and English
Price € 51.50 (Delivery price included)
The Persecution and Mass Murder of Lithuanian Jews during Summer and Fall of 1941
Christoph Dieckmann, Saulius Sužiedėlis
Publisher Margi raštai, 2006, 280 pages, hard cover, ISBN: 9986093066 (wrong)
In Lithuanian and English
Price € 14.50 (Delivery price included)
Jewish Cultural Heritage in Lithuania
Edited by Alfredas Jomantas
Famous Jewish people that took part in cultural life of Lithuania, buildings, synagogues, other sacral heritage are described in this book.
Publisher Versus Aureus, 2006, 294 pages, paperback, ISBN: 9955699477
In English
Price € 11.50 (Delivery price included)