The online exhibit tells the story of Yitskhok Rudashevski, who documented his life in the ghetto from 1941 to 1943. Growing up in Vilna in the 1930s, Yitskhok Rudashevski was a typical 13-year-old ...

I did it all backward. Instead of taking my research trips before writing my book, like any normal historian would have, I’d waited. Only after I had completed my first draft of the book did I finally ...

Aimee Levitt is a freelance writer in Chicago. Until the 1960s, every generation had to discover vegetarianism and non-procreative sex on its own. Logically, you might assume that when our ancestors ...

Illustrative photo: Shmuel Levin, the Chairperson of the Jewish religious Community of Vilnius, leans against a wall of the power substation built of tombstones from a Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, ...

More than three-quarters of the 80,000 Jews who remained in Vilna under Nazi occupation were executed last month in a mass-slaughter which has no equal in Jewish history, according to an eye-witness ...

"Vilna: A Resistance Story" is a new musical theater composition by Kevin and Allison Cloud with a book by Lisa Kenner Grissom. It tells the unfamiliar story of the roughly hundred thousand Vilna Jews ...

The Vilna Gaon had made an agreement with the trustees of his community that he was not to be summoned to a meeting unless it involved a proposed new communal regulation. Once, the trustees wanted to ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The world-famous Yiddish theater that eventually became known as the Vilna Troupe had its beginnings under remarkable and completely ...

rebellious teenage girl and a young poet - from the Vilna ghetto of Lithuania. A special concert version will be presented on Monday, October 16 at 7:00 p.m. at GREEN ROOM 42, Located in: YOTEL New ...

Are certain ethnic groups predisposed to excel in the classroom? The debate has heated up of late in academic circles. In a new book called Legacy, the geneticist Harry Ostrer of Albert Einstein ...

The Vilna Gaon (Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, 1720–1797), widely regarded as one of the greatest Torah scholars in Jewish history, is often portrayed as the embodiment of pure Torah ...