- 343 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
This book is the result of a personal quest to understand more about Nick' s family background in eastern Europe. It leads him to dig deeply into many of the big questions about modern Jewish history in Lithuania. Why were lots of Jewish people living in Lithuania in the late nineteenth century? Were their lives becoming difficult at that time and, if so, why was this? Why did some Jews emigrate? How did these people choose where to go and how did they make the move? What happened to their family and friends left behind, both during the First World War and in the inter-war period? Why and how were Lithuania' s Jews murdered in the Holocaust and how has Lithuanian society tried to come to terms with this in the post-war world? Much modern Jewish history in Lithuania is terrible. About 96% of the pre-war Jewish population was murdered in the Holocaust. But this book also reflects on positive aspects of the Jewish experience in Lithuania: for many years it was a good place for Jews to live and those who emigrated carried with them Jewish traditions and approaches to life and learning acquired while living there which stood them in good stead in their new countries.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- Note on Place Names
- Introduction
- 1: Background
- 2: Jewish Life in Late Nineteenth Century Lithuania
- 3: Emigration
- 4: Lithuania 1896-1921
- 5: Inter-War Lithuania
- 6: To the Edge of the Abyss
- Plate section
- 7: An Outline of the Holocaust in Lithuania
- 8: A Survivor’s Experience of the Holocaust in Lithuania
- 9: Trying to Explain the Holocaust in Lithuania
- 10: The End of the War
- 11: Post war
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index