Michael Blum is the assistant director at William & Mary’s Studio for Teaching & Learning Innovation. He is also a teaching & ...

Yitskhok Rudashevski documented his life while hiding from Nazis, as well as folklore told in his community that “must be ...

Both sides are naturally at fault. It was more than galling to Lithuania to lose her largest city and ancient capital, Vilna, as well as large tracts of her southeastern territory. She lost them ...

He was arrested when Germany invaded the Soviet Union and took over Soviet-occupied territories, including Lithuania. Returning in November 1941 to Vilna, he organized an underground Betar group ...

where the Gaon of Vilna was buried, he never went to visit. And neither did anyone else in Lithuania — it simply was not a practice of the Jews there,” he said. “I personally never visit ...

The rumor that this was a method of the Gaon of Vilna only began to spread over ... some rabbis from Lithuania used this method to decide whether to flee or stay, among other things, including ...

Homelessness is a serious issue that affects people all across the globe. Getting an exact image of the prevalence of ...

Fishman is the author of “The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race To Save Jewish Treasures From the Nazis” (published in 2017 and later acquired by Brandeis University Press), which details ...

In addition, in both America and Israel, he was always sought out by Jews from all walks of life from simple people to Hasidic Rebbes and Lithuanian Roshei Yeshiva ... the GRA (the Vilna Gaon, ...