PROF. DOV LEVIN
Kaunas (Kovno) 1925 — Jerusalem 2016
Tag Archives: Litvaks
Dov Levin (1925 — 2016)
Posted in A 21st Century Campaign Against Lithuanian Holocaust Survivors?, Dov Levin (1925 - 2016), Israel, Legacy of 23 June 1941, Lithuania, Litvak Affairs, News & Views, Obituaries
Tagged Dov Levin, ISRAELI EMBASSY IN LITHUANIA, Litvaks
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Monica Lowenberg Releases Text of Letter to British ORT on Latest Lithuanian Embassy Sponsored “Litvak Do” in London
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by Monica Lowenberg
Monica Lowenberg’s office has released for publication the following public letter sent to British ORT.
British ORT, FAO The Chief Executive, Mr. Dan Green
25 November 2013
Dear Mr. Green,
It is with deep regret that my 90 year old father, Ernest Lowenberg, former Berlin ORT pupil and I write to you today.
Posted in "Jewish" Events as Cover?, Collaborators Glorified, Documents, Double Games, EU, Events, Identity Theft of Litvak Heritage, Lithuania, Litvak Affairs, Monica Lowenberg, News & Views, Opinion, Politics of Memory, United Kingdom, World Jewish Congress (WJC) and ORT
Tagged British ORT, Egidijus Aleksandravicius, Lionidas Donskis, Lithuanian Embassy in London, Litvaks, Monica Lowenberg, University College London (UCL), Vytautas Magnus University, Westminster Synagogue
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Vexed Revival of “Red-Brown Commission”
State-sponsored Zingeris-Račinskas “red-brown commission” (officially: International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupational Regimes in Lithuania) in Vilnius posts new list of members.
See also:
Page on the commission
Critiques of the commission and its associated Prague Declaration
DH section on the commission.
Resignations to date from Commission-related bodies include Dr. Yitzhak Arad, Sir Martin Gilbert (London), Prof. Gershon Greenberg (Washington DC), Prof. Konrad Kwiet (Sydney) and Prof. Dov Levin (Jerusalem).
Holocaust survivors themselves have stood up to express disquiet about some aspects of the commission: Yitzhak Arad, Pinchos Fridberg (more), Dov Levin (more), Joseph Melamed (more), Basheva Ran, the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel, Jewish Community of Lithuania / Union of Ghetto Survivors. A decade and a half of issues.
Posted in "Red-Brown Commission", "Vilnius Jewish Public Library", Double Games, Double Genocide, Dr. Arūnas Bubnys and State Holocaust Revisionism in Lithuania, Foreign Ministries: Holocaust Politics Abuse?, Germany, Holocaust Policies of Mr. Ronaldas Račinskas and the State-Sponsored "International Commission" (ICECNSORL), Lithuania, News & Views, Politics of Memory, Views of Prof. Sarunas Liekis
Tagged Arunas Bubnys, Double Genocide, Dov Levin, Emanuelis Zingeris, Holocaust Denial and Obfuscation, Holocaust in Lithuania, Holocaust Obfuscation, International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania, Joseph Melamed, Litvaks, Milan Chersonski, Pinchos Fridberg, Red-Brown Commission, Ronaldas Racinskas, Sarunas Liekis, Yitzhak Arad
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Some Litvak Resources
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Quick Finder
♦ Your Journey to Líte
♦ Remembering Litvaks, Inc.
♦ LitvakSig.org
♦ Litvak World
♦ Judaic Institutions in Vlinius
♦ A Short Cultural History of the Litvaks
♦ Vilna Yiddish Mini-Museum
♦ Virtual Yiddish Mini-Museum of Jewish Life in Interwar Lithuania
♦ Litvak Studies
♦ News Section
♦ Gaon of Vilna’s 300th Birth Anniversary (2020): Some Articles & Papers
♦ Vieninga Lietuva (United Lithuania)
♦ What to See in Jewish Vilnius
♦ Litvak Map
♦ Berl Kagan’s Encyclopedia of Towns in Lithuania
♦ Litvak Videos; Vilna Videos
♦ Place Names (Lithuania)
♦ Alternative Tourism
♦ Exotic Tourism
♦ Dark Tourism
♦ Cemeteries & Mass Graves
♦ Reading Stones
♦ Atlas of Litvish
♦ Yiddish Linguistics;
♦ Holocaust Map
♦ Holocaust Readings
♦ On the Road
♦ Editor’s Litvak Studies page
♦ Editor’s Bible translations into Lithuanian Yiddish
♦ Editor’s website; FB
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• Who are the Litvaks?
• Litvak Studies (Reading List)
• YouTube
• Litvak Lands (map)
• Litvak Tourism
• Alternative Tourism
• Dark Tourism
• Exotic Tourism (section)
• Holocaust (readings)
• Holocaust (map)
• Place Names
• Lithuanian Jewish Culture (excerpt)
• Virtual Mini Museum of Old Jewish Vilna
• Vilna Book Stamps (excerpt)
• Intro to Sounds of Silence
• Yeshivas (map)
• Language Atlas
• Reading Gravestones
• Mourner’s Kaddish in Lithuanian Ashkenazic
• Three Yiddish Passover Songs (Vilna area)
• More
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Sections
• Exotic Jewish Tourism
• Litvak Affairs
• The “Litvak Industry”
• News
• Opinion
Tagged Baltic Jews, Belarus, Jewish cemeteries in Lithuania and Belarus, Jewish Heritage Tours, Jewish tourism and sites in Lithuania, Kaddish, Kaddish in Ashkenazic Litvak Transliteration, Latvia, Lithuania, Lithuanian Jewish culture, Lithuanian Jewish history, Litvak Jewish culture and history, Litvak logo, Litvak Studies, Litvaks, Litvaks and the Holocaust
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Joe Melamed, Head of Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel, calls on ‘Real Litvaks’ to Stay Away from Tel Aviv ‘Gala Sham’ on March 5th
Developments have started moving quickly in the ill-starred project to host the current foreign minister of Lithuania as “guest of honor” at a Tel Aviv “gala” at the Dan Panorama Hotel on March 5th.
Posted in "Jewish" Events as Cover?, A 21st Century Campaign Against Lithuanian Holocaust Survivors?, Israel, Joseph Melamed, Litvak Affairs, News & Views, South Africa
Tagged Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel, Audronius Azubalis, Double Genocide, Holocaust in Lithuania, Joseph Melamed, Litvaks, Prague Declaration, Telfed
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Litvak Studies
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Litvish: An Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish (in progress); recent paper on the Atlas
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The Language of Litvak Gravestones: A Dictionary (in progress)
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Origin and cultural history of the Litvaks (and the word Litvak)
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Map of the Lithuanian Holocaust
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The Jewish Communities of Prewar Lithuania
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Reading List for Litvak Studies
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Video Clips of Litvak Yiddish and Lore (YouTube)
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Videos on Facebook
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First Days of the Lithuanian Holocaust (videos of survivor testimony)
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First Days of the Latvian Holocaust (videos of survivor testimony)
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Seven Kingdoms of the Litvaks (PDF)
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Lithuanian Jewish Culture [excerpts] (PDF)
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Windows to a Lost Jewish Past: Vilna Book Stamps [excerpts] [PDF]
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Origins of Litvish as the basis for Standard Yiddish (and Ashkenazic Hebrew)
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Preface to The Sounds of Silence
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Barnett Zumoff’s translation (into English) of a selection of Dovid Katz’s short stories; Melitta Depner’s translation (into German)
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Other work in the field of Litvak Studies
Tagged Lithuanian Jewish Studies, Lithuanian Jews, Litvak, Litvak Studies, Litvaks, Litvish
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A Conference for Tolerance Day
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by Geoff Vasil
On Wednesday, November 16th 2011, the Tolerance Center in Vilnius hosted a conference called: Tolerance and Totalitarianism. Challenges to Freedom.
Posted in "Jewish" Events as Cover?, Double Games, Events, Geoff Vasil, Holocaust Policies of Mr. Ronaldas Račinskas and the State-Sponsored "International Commission" (ICECNSORL), LGBTQ Equal Rights, News & Views, Opinion, Politics of Memory, United States
Tagged Antisemitism in Lithuania, Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania, Emanuelis Zingeris, Hannah Rosenthal, Holocaust commemoration in the Baltics, Holocaust in Lithuania, Irena Veisaite, Jewish Affairs in Lithuania, Jewish Community of Lithuania, Jews in Lithuania, Litvaks, Markas Zingeris, President Obama's Envoy on Antisemitism, Red-Brown Commission, Ronaldas Racinskas, Sarunas Liekis, Simon Gurevich, Simonas Gurevicius, Tolerance Center
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London Fog: Lithuanian Foreign Ministry invests in a London ‘Graywash’
Letter of Protest signed by Lord Janner, MP MacShane, Professor Dov Levin, Rabbi Barry Marcus & 17 Others
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DIGNIFIED MORNING PROTEST
Member of the UK Parliament, human rights champion and author RH Denis MacShane (right), led a good-natured moment of protest Monday morning, 7 February in London at the Lithuanian Embassy, 84 Gloucester Place, London W1.
MP MacShane presented a letter of protest to the embassy, drafted and organized by Professor Danny Ben-Moshe (center), who flew in from Melbourne to be at the event. At left is Danny Stone, director of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism. The letter was signed by 21 people, including academics, political figures, those involved with the fight against antisemitism, representatives of Litvak organizations, and Lithuanian Holocaust survivors. The ambassador declined a written request to meet to discuss the letter.
PRESS: REPORT IN THE JERUSALEM POST ♦ IN THE ECONOMIST (REPLY HERE) ♦ ALFA.LT (8 Feb) ♦ BNS ♦ CLEMENS HENI (DH) ♦ DOVID KATZ (DH) ♦ LRYTAS.LT ♦ JONNY PAUL (JP) ♦ SIMON ROCKER I (JC) ♦SIMON ROCKER II (JC) ♦ SIMON ROCKER III (JC) ♦ NITZA SPIRO (JN) ♦ EFRAIM ZUROFF (JC)
Posted in "Jewish" Events as Cover?, Double Games, Events, Foreign Ministries: Holocaust Politics Abuse?, News & Views, Politics of Memory, Rothschild Foundation Europe (Hanadiv): Lithuanian Issues, UCL Manipulated?, United Kingdom, What Do Fake Litvak Games Look Like?
Tagged Efraim Zuroff, Hebrew and Jewish Studies London, Lithuanian Foreign Ministry, Litvaks, Vilnius Yiddish Institute
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