This volume of Polin, based on scholarship that has emerged since
the fall of communism, is a wide-ranging contribution to the
complex history of the Jews in Lithuania. Focusing on the specific
character of Lithuanian Jewry, the volume opens by examining how
their relationship with the surrounding society developed after
1772, both under tsarist rule and then in independent Lithuania.
Moving to more recent times, the devastating impact on the Jewish
community of the Soviet and Nazi occupations during the Second
World War is discussed, as are the further negative consequences on
Jewish life of the reoccupation of the country by the Soviets
between 1944 and 1990. The volume concludes with material on the
slow revival of Jewish life since the collapse of the Soviet Union
and the re-emergence of an independent Lithuania, which was
accompanied by the revival of many disciplines, such as the study
of Jewish history, repressed by Soviet censorship. This revived
interest in the country's Jewish past is now playing a key role in
the broader transformation of historical memory of the post-Soviet
era and the problem of coming to terms with the widespread local
collaboration in Lithuania during the Holocaust - a process which
has led to important scholarly advances but also to bitter
controversy. Collectively, the studies in this volume contribute to
a better understanding of the complex history of the Jews in
Lithuania and of Lithuanian - Jewish relations and constitute a
part of the necessary process of creating a more rounded and
inclusive history of the country. CONTRIBUTORS Aelita
Ambruleviciute, Marta Aleksandra Balinska, Egle Bendikaite, Michael
Casper, Ellen Cassedy, Immanuel Etkes, David E. Fishman, Jack
Jacobs, Grigory Kanovich, Saulius Suziedelis, Andrey Krotau, Larisa
Lempertiene, Aearunas Liekis, Miriam Offer, Avi Ohry, Karin
Ohry-Kossoy, Ausra Pazeraite, Antony Polonsky, Anna P. Ronell,
Vladas Sirutavicius, Darius Staliunas, Saulius SuA iedelis,
Vytautas Toleikis, Anna Verschik, Theodore R. Weeks, Mordechai
Zalkin.
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