NEW YORK — More than a year after the Nazis forced Yitskhok Rudashevski, a 15-year-old Lithuanian Jew, into the Vilna Ghetto, ...

(JTA) — Lithuania’s Jews and Yiddishists around the world are mourning the passing of Fania Brantsovsky, the last surviving member of the Jewish underground in the Vilna ghetto and a keeper of ...

V ILNIUS — Lithuania’s Jews and Yiddishists around the world are mourning the passing of Fania Brantsovsky, the last ...

If Jews in the midst of battle in Sinai, persecuted by the Soviets in Moscow, or surrounded by death at Auschwitz celebrated ...

A popular Bundist pamphlet written by Shmuel Gozhansky in 1897 on behalf of the General Jewish Labor Bund in the Russian ...

What if I told you one of the most famous and beloved Russian Jews of the 19th century—”the father of Yiddish poetry” no less ...

Current YIVO executive director and CEO Jonathan Brent helped broker a deal in 2011 that reestablished YIVO’s presence in Vilna (now Vilnius), and in 2015, YIVO and the Lithuanian Central State ...

On Nov. 7-10, the Paris Yiddish Center will celebrate the creativity of Jewish life in Vilna and another Lithuanian city, ...

The first exhibition was based on the life of Beba Epstein, a young Jewish woman who was born in 1922 in Vilna and went through the Holocaust. She was the only person from her family that survived.

This question was used to promote a talk this past spring by Chabot at the Vilna Shul, an immigrant-era synagogue turned Jewish cultural center in Boston. One takeaway from Chabot’s talk ...

(JTA) — Lithuania’s Jews and Yiddishists around the world are mourning the passing of Fania Brantsovsky, the last surviving member of the Jewish underground in the Vilna ghetto and a keeper of ...