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For the first time, a Lithuanian author teamed up with an Israeli Holocaust scholar in search for the truth about widespread local enthusiasm, seventy-five years ago, for mass murder of civilian neighbors, and today’s failures in coming to grips with that history, in a land of hundreds of Jedwabnes. A genuine historic advance in Lithuanian-Jewish relations is seen in the startling partnership of Rūta Vanagaitė and Dr. Efraim Zuroff in Vanagaitė’s Mūsiškiai: Kelionė su priešu (“Our People: Journey with an Enemy”), published in Vilnius in January 2016. See also the media tracking page on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Operation Last Chance website.
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The following listing of coverage by language (English, Lithuanian, Russian, Polish) is far from exhaustive. The humongous reaction needs to be studied in its own right.
Nov. 2017 Update: Renewed media conflagration launched by the author’s 26 October 2017 PR rollout of multiple initiatives, two of which were directly relevant to the legacy of Mūsiškiai.
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IN ENGLISH: Inna Lazareva in New Statesman; Efraim Zuroff in FB; Geoff Vasil in LJC; Sam Sokol in the Jerusalem Post; Report in the Lithuania Tribune; Translation of Sergejus Kanovičius’s Bernardinai article; BNN News; Faina Kukliansky in LJC; Delfi.lt on Genocide Center’s list of collaborators; JTA (/ Forward / Jerusalem Post / Baltic Times / Independent); BNS / LJC; JTA (/ Forward / Haaretz / Jewish Journal / Ottowa Jewish Bulletin); Simon Wiesenthal Center; Brian Kenety in Transitions Online; Sergejus Kanovičius in LJC; Geoff Vasil in LJC; Faina Kukliansky in LJC; Sam Sokol in the Jerusalem Post; Manfred Gerstenfeld interviews the author in Arutz Sheva; Vaidotas Beniusis in The Times of Israel; Weiss-Livnat Program in Holocaust Studies at Haifa University; Paul Alster in The Jerusalem Report; Review of recent Holocaust event at the “Vilnius Jewish Public Library” in Defending History; Barbara Sofer in the Jerusalem Post; in motl.org; partial translation of Vildžiūnas’s review; Stav Ziv in Newsweek; Temple Rinat Yisrael in Teaneck, New Jersey, announces Vanagaitė-Zuroff event on 6 Nov. 2016.
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IN LITHUANIAN (SELECTION): Delfi.lt, Lrt.lt (on book launch); Delfi.lt (excerpt); Aidas.us; LRytas.lt (2); 15min.lt; Facebook; Greitas.eu (II); Mindaugas Jackevičius in Delfi, 2; Eglė Samoškaitė in Delfi; Andrius Užkalnis in Delfi; Edmundas Jakilaitis in KaunoDiena.lt; in Delfi.lt; in Bernardinai.lt. Algimantas Lebionka in Šauksmas.lt; Arkadijus Vinokuras in Lrytas.lt; Genocide Center; Sergejus Kanovičius in Bernardinai; Tomas Bartninkas in Delfi.lt; BNN.lv; Vidmantas Valiušaitis in Lrytas.lt; Eldoradas Butrimas in Lrytas.lt; Greitas.eu; Gintatas Visockas in Slaptai.lt; Ričardas Doveika in Delfi.lt; D. Glodenis in Delfi.lt; Karolis Jovaisas in Delfi.lt; Valdas Vasiliauskas in Alkas.lt; Dalija Epšteinaitė in Bernardinai.lt; Eglė Samoškaitė in Delfi.lt; Mindaugas Jackevičius in Delfi.lt; Vytautas Jankauskas in Lrytas.lt; Monika Garbačiauskaitė-Budrienė in Delfi.lt; News item in Karštas komentaras; Edvardas Čiuldė in Lrytas.lt; Markas Zingeris in Delfi.lt; Mindaugas Jackevičius in Delfi.lt; Stasys Stungurys in Karštas komentaras; Tomas Venclova in Lrytas.lt; Ugnė Balkutė in Lrytas.lt; Anonymous in Karštas komentaras; Ruta Vanagaite in Delfi.lt; Marius Lukošiūnas in Lrytas.lt; Nerijus Šepetys in Lietuvos žinios; Vytautas Landsbergis in Delfi.lt; Linas Vildžiūnas in 7md.lt; Vytautas Visockas in Slaptai.lt.
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IN GERMAN (SELECTION): Israel Nachrichten; Ekaterina Makhotine in Erinnerungskulturen; Carsten Schmiester in Deutschlandradiokultur; Hans Mattern in Heise.de; Judith Leister in Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
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