Lietuvos nacionalinė Martyno Mažvydo biblioteka liepos 28 d. pakvietė į dokumentinio filmo „Leaving Memel – Refugees from the Reich“ („Paliekant Memelį – pabėgėliai iš Reicho“) peržiūrą ir susitikimą su filmo kūrėju Fredu Finkelšteinu. Renginys vyko Vilniaus žydų viešojoje bibliotekoje. „Paliekant Memelį – pabėgėliai iš Reicho“ (2018 m., 41 min.) – trumpas, įtaigus filmas apie Fredo […]

On the 20th of November we had a chance to participate in an international Webinar dedicated to the 100th Birthday of Paul Celan! Participants discussed about his works and translations to Lithuanian. The director Žilvinas Beliauskas read the translation of his poem “Corona” translated by Arvydas Makštutis. The event was organized by the Chernivtsi Regional […]

Džiaugiamės prie įėjimo į Vilniaus žydų viešąją biblioteką atsiradusiu prasmingu ir gražiu Mindaugas Šnipas meniniu akcentu, skirtu įamžinti rašytojo, žydų tautosakininko ir kultūros veikėjo S. An-skio atminimą bei ypatingai svarbią jo vilnietiškąją biografijos dalį. Lapkričio 8 d. kaip tik sukanka 100 metų nuo jo mirties. Vilniuje S. An-skis apsistodavo tame pačiame pastatų komplekse kaip ir […]

Ukmergė District Vladas Šlaitas Public Library organised “A week in Ukmergė shtetl” which took place on the 21st-25th of September. The whole week was dedicated to the Vilna Gaon Jewish Year and was full of various events – conferences, tours, concerts and etc. Head of the Vilnius Jewish Public Library Žilvinas Beliauskas was among other […]

On the 24th of September head of Vilnius Jewish Public library Žilvinas Beliauskas attended the scientific conference „Memorial Book for the Jewish Community of Telšiai“. It was organized by the Samogitian Museum „Alka“ in Telšiai. Mr. Beliauskas listened to various presentations and met with possible future partners.   Photographs by Žilvinas Beliauskas and museum  

On the 15th of September we all gathered to have another presentation of a new book by Rūta Vanagaitė and also have a discussion among historians. We had a big crowd and also very important speaker – R. Vanagaitė, director of the Institute of History professor Alvydas Nikžentaitis, head of the Jewish community of Lithuania […]

On the 8th of September, after the short break, we were able to finally host an event at our library. Today we had a warm evening to welcome a book “From the Jerusalem of the North” with the poetry written by the contemporary Ltihuanian poets. Big thanks to compiler Indre Valantinaitė and Poetinis Druskininkų ruduo […]

Dita Šperlingienė-Zupavičienė has visited our library more than once. Meetings with her became surprising and unexpected revelations of the past. Miraculously, not only forgotten things have returned to the present, but also what many of us could not even imagine being. Fate has determined that some part of such an important memory would be preserved. […]

A very warm meeting with Franciscan brother Gediminas Numgaudis OFM revealed many unexpected things about the essence of anti-Semitism. Brother Gediminas is probably the only one in Lithuania who speaks so boldly about the defaults of the Jewish tragedy, his accomplices, anti-Semitism and its roots, and what it means to a Christian. Brother Gediminas Numgaudis […]