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VILNIUS—The eminent Lithuanian journalist Arvydas Jockus (at Alfa.lt) today became the first in a number of years to genuinely inform Lithuanian readers of the mainstream media here that there is Another Side to the debate about the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery at Piramónt (in Shnípishok, today’s thriving Šnipiškės district of beautiful modern Vilnius, a thriving, successful EU capital).

Many thousands of citizens of Vilna spanning some five centuries still lie buried in the cemetery, including some of the greatest Jewish rabbinic scholars of the golden era of Lithuanian Jewry enabled by the centuries-long tolerance and good will of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and its successor states.

Arvydas Jockus’s article in Alfa.lt

The article, easily translated by google and/or other services into English and other languages is in today’s edition of Alfa.lt.