Professional Heritage Tour Guides & Genealogists

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“The Defending History team thinks that Lithuania (and neighboring EU/NATO countries) are a wonderful place to visit — safe and modern yet rarefied and special, charming Old Europe alongside every modern convenience. The debates with a few gov. agencies over history, the Holocaust, the fate of Jewish cemeteries, contemporary antisemitism and other issues mean that your visit is all the more important. It does mean that when you get here, please be sure (as indeed you would anywhere) to hear all sides of the argument, not just the lavish state-sponsored entities that specialize in  dazzling with “Jewish Hollywood PR sets” while dismissing other opinions as illegitimate. These countries, and their peoples, are absolutely delightful, warm, good-humored and welcoming. Come and visit, all the more so if your own family roots are here!”

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Scholar-on-board?

DH can provide scholar-on-board, Vilnius-based seminars and intensive short courses (including intermediate & advanced Yiddish) for groups of between 5 and 50 people. Topics offered.  Write to us.

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TOUR GUIDES & GENEALOGISTS:

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• • Chaim Bargman

  • Shimen Davidovich

  • Alex Feigman (Riga)

  • Daniel Gurevich (FB)

  • Yulik Gurevich (FB)

  • Regina Kopilevich

  • Ilya Lempertas

  • Vilija Malinauskaite

  • Eli Schryer

  • Simona Tsirilson (FB)

  • Ema Segal

  • Eduard Vender

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    Baltic Gen

    Baltic Jewish Heritage Tours

  • Genex

    Golden Legacy

    JeruLita (FB)

  • Jewish Travel

    King David

    Tangential Travel & Jewish Life

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• Our tip for your consideration: “If the listed professional is not available on your travel dates, best to avoid recommendations for a semi-qualified friend, best to go to another listed pro.”

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• WHAT TO SEE IN JEWISH VILNIUS

  DEFENDING HISTORY STAFF AVAILABLE FOR SEMINARS, TALKS, SCHOLAR-ON-BOARD FOR HISTORICAL TOURS

  EDITOR’S LECTURE TOPICS

  VILNIUS-BASED SEMINARS ON YIDDISH, VILNA AND LITHUANIAN JEWISH CULTURE

  info ≤at≥ DefendingHistory.com

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For Online Genealogy:

JewishGen

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A D V E R T I S E M E N T

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for old family letters and memoirs in difficult Yiddish (/Hebrew) handwriting:

YEYNESN FELENDLER (at: felendlerks@gmail.com)

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See also:

LITVAK LINKS PAGE; LITVAK STUDIES; MINI MUSEUM OF OLD JEWISH VILNA; MINI MUSEUM OF INTERWAR JEWISH LITHUANIA

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Not for the faint-hearted:

LITVAK AFFAIRS; ALTERNATIVE TOURISM; EXOTIC TOURISM; DARK TOURISM

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