Posts Tagged: Gaon of Vilna
Expert Court Witness Challenges Lithuanian Government’s Plan to Construct Convention Center Atop Historic Jewish Cemetery
A court in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius has heard an appeal from over 100 descendants of Jews buried in the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery...
Remapping the Vilnius Ghetto
"How people perished in the ghetto—that I understand; what I cannot understand is how they lived there," writes Second World War refugee and esteemed Yiddish...
