2010 Jewish Lithuania Program Dates Coming Soon

GUEST PRESENTATIONS
at the SLS JEWISH LITHUANIA PROGRAM

convened and moderated by
Professor Dovid Katz
(Vilnius Yiddish Institute, Vilnius University)

About the Program | About Jewish Lithuania | Guest Presentations
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Guest Presentations

Dr. Shimon Alperovitch (chairman, Jewish Community of Lithuania)
Portrayals of Jews and Jewish Life in Lithuanian Literature and Media

Mr. Alexander Astraukh (Institute of Architectural Restoration, Minsk)
Belarus: the Forgotten Heartland of Líte (Jewish Lithuania)

Dr. Zackary Sholem Berger (publisher, Yiddish House LLC, New York)
Avrom Sutskever, the Vilna Yiddish Prophet

Ms. Roza Bieliauskiene (lecturer in Jewish History, Sholem Aleichem School, Vilnius)
The Streets of Vilna in Yiddish literature, and in today’s Vilnius (a literary walk)

Ms. Fira Bramson (director emeritus, Judaica Section at the Lithuanian National Library)
Yiddish Literary Treasures of 1930s Vilna (a “touch and feel the books” session)

Peter Cole (poet and translator, Jerusalem)
Hebrew Writers on Writing: Lithuania

Professor Leonidas Donskis (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas)
The Moral Plane of Jewish Identity in Lithuania: A Personal Perspective

Dr. Vilma Grad (Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum & Vilnius Yiddish Institute)
Idealization of Jewish Living Space in Lithuanian Jewish Art (power point)

Mr. Simon Gurevich (executive director, Jewish Community of Lithuania)
How do Jewish people live in Lithuania today?

Mr. Kerry Shawn Keys (poet, Vilnius)
The Poetic Ghosts of Strashun Street

Mr. Milan Khersonsky (editor, Jerusalem of Lithuania [quadrilingual publication])
Fifteen Years with the Only Jewish Paper in Lithuania

Professor Michael Kimmage (Harvard University)
From Vilna to New York: The New York Intellectuals in a Non-American Context

Ms. Rachel Kostanian (Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish State Lithuania)
The Green House and the Narrative of History

Rabbi Sholom Ber Krinsky (Chabad House, Vilnius)
Restoring Religious Life to Jewish Families in Lithuania

Dr. Maria Krupoves-Berg (Vilnius Yiddish Institute, Vilnius University)
Yiddish Folksongs of Lithuania and Belarus

Dr. Mindaugas Kvietkauskas (director, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore):
Yiddish Literature in Multinational Vilna: Borders and Contacts

Professor Šarūnas Liekis (Vilnius Yiddish Institute, Vilnius University)
The Years of Jewish Autonomy in the New (Interwar) Republic of Lithuania

Professor Phillip Lopate (Hofstra University, New York)
Susan Sontag as Secular Jewish Writer

Ms. Rūta Puišytė (Vilnius Yiddish Institute, Vilnius University)
Lithuania, the Holocaust and the Truth

Professor Anna Verschik (Tallinn University & University of Helsinki)
Yiddish Language and Culture in Estonia

Mr. Linas Vildžiūnas (editor, 7 Days in Art [cultural weekly in Vilnius])
Story of the House of Memory

HE Andrea Wicke (ambassador of Austria in Lithuania)
Holocaust Remembrance and Issues Raised