As published on the Lithuanian Tribune “South Africa is more Litvak than Lithuania itself,” Mark Zingeris, the Lithuanian playwright and novelist once remarked. And, as one of very few members of Lithuania’s Jewish community to remain in the country, he would know....
History is replaying itself in Lithuania’s small Jewish community of barely four thousand souls. Yet, the intense optimism and vigour characteristic of Jewish life during the Jewish Renaissance of the late 18th century are sadly not embraced by the gatekeepers of...
