Leonidas DONSKIS: Preface
John D. KLIER: Traditions of the Commonwealth: Lithuanian Jewry and
the Exercise of Political Power in Tsarist Russia
Darius STALIŪNAS: Changes in the Political Situation and the
“Jewish Question” in the Lithuanian Gubernias of the Russian Empire
(1855-April 1863)
Theodore R. WEEKS: Politics, Society, and Antisemitism:
Peculiarities of the Russian Empire and Lithuanian Lands
Vladas SIRUTAVIČIUS: Notes on the Origin and Development of Modern
Lithuanian Antisemitism in the Second Half of the Nineteenth
Century and at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Ezra MENDELSOHN: Some Remarks on the Jewish Condition in Interwar
East Central Europe
Eglè BENDIKAITÉ: Expressions of Litvak Pro-Lithuanian Political
Orientation c. 1906-c.1921
Česlovas LAURINAVIČIUS: Lithuanian General Aspects of Domestic
Policy 1918-1940
Saulius SUŽIEDÈLIS: The Historical Sources for Antisemitism in
Lithuania and Jewsih-Lithuanian Relation during the 1930s
Verena DOHRN: State and Minorities. The First Lithuanian Republic
and S.M. Dubnov’s Concept of Cultural Autonomy
Yitzhak ARAD: The Murder of the Jews in German-Occupied Lithuania
(1941-1944)
Arūnas BUBNYS: The Holocaust in Lithuania: An Outline of the Major
Stages at their Results
Gershon GREENBERG: Holocaust and Musar for the Telšiai Yeshivah:
Avraham Yitshak and Eliyahu Meir Bloch
Yevgeni ROZENBLAT: The Holocaust in the Western Regions of
Belarus
Martin C. DEAN: Lithuanian Participation in the Mass Murder of Jews
in Belarus and Ukraine (1941-1944)
Joachim TAUBER: Coming to Terms with a Difficult Past
Summaries
About the Authors
Alvydas Nikžentaitis is Director of the Lithuanian Institute of
History in Vilnius, Lithuania. He is the founder and the former
director of the Centre for West Lithuanian and Prussian History at
the University of Klaipėda, Lithuania. Areas of interest: the
history of mediaeval Lithuania, Lithuania in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, and stereotypes in historiography. He
published several books in Lithuanian on the Grand Duchy of
Lithuania in the Middle Ages, and is the author of the book, Witold
i Jagiello. Polacy i Litwini we wzajemnym stereotypie [Vytautas and
Jagiello. Poles and Lithuanians in Mutual Stereotyping] (Poznan,
2000).
Stefan Schreiner is Chair for History of Religion and Jewish
Studies, and Head of the Institutum Judaicum at
Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Germany. He is mainly engaged
in the study of Polish-Jewish cultural history and the history and
culture of the Karaites in the former Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth.
Darius Staliūnas earned his doctorate from Vytautas Magnus
University in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1997. Currently, he serves as
Deputy Director of the Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius,
Lithuania. The author of Visuomenė be universiteto? (Aukštosios
mokyklos atkūrimo problema Lietuvoje: XIX a. vidurys–XX a. pradžia)
[Society without a University? (On the Reestablishment of a
Higher-Education Institution in Lithuania between the
Mid-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries)] (Vilnius: Lithuanian
History Institute Press, 2000).
"a path-breaking collection …The authors of the studies are
recognized as leading scholars in the field and their articles
offer a wide-ranging objective picture of the issues that are
generally free from polemic and stereotypical descriptions" - in:
Religious Studies Review, Vol. 31, Issue 1 & 2 (January, April
2005)
"constitutes on the whole a useful contribution to the
historiography of the Baltic region, but also to Jewish studies and
the growing historiography of non-Russian regions of the Russian
empire and Soviet Union." - in: Nordost-Archiv XIV (2005)
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