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Global Challa-Baking Shabbos Project Jews of Skuodas the Bund Nr. 2/2017 • 1/5778 DISCOVER – GET TO KNOW – ACCEPT Global Challa-Baking Shabbos Project 6 Jews of Skuodas 7 The Bund at 120 10 Sugihara Week 13 The Jewish Year Calendar: 15 Synagogues of Lithuania One Century out of Seven: Lithuania, Lita, Lite 16 Telšiai – the House of Torah Study 18 ISSN 2424-4759 Editor’s Corner Dear reader, Special attention is paid in this issue to heritage and shtetlakh. What's the current state of Jewish heritage in Skuodas? What treasures from the Telšiai yeshiva does the Judai- ca Research Center of the Lithuanian National Martynas Mažvydas Library conserve? Why were synagogues chosen as the theme of the new Lithuanian Jewish Community calendar? What is the new exhibit "One Century out of Seven: Lithuania, Lita, Lite" initiated by the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry about? All this and more in the new issue of the Bagel Shop. We hope you discover many new and interesting things here. We invite your thoughts and suggestions for future issues. Please write [email protected] Radvilė and Zina NEWS ROUND-UP April 7 Exhibit "Jewish Foreign Cit- May 19 Restored wooden synagogue izens Murdered at the Ninth Fort" in Pakruojis opened to public. The opens at the Ninth Fort Museum in synagogue is to host a children's sec- Kaunas. Exhibit patron Henry Kellen tion of the Juozas Paukštelis Public (1915-2014) who immigrated to the Library of the Pakruojis regional ad- USA in 1946 bequeathed an inher- ministration as well as concerts, pub- itance on the museum. Between 1941 lic events and exhibitions. the Lithuanian symbol of state, the and 1944 Lithuanian and foreign Jews posts of Gediminas, into the design. May 21 Lithuanian Makabi Athletics were murdered at the Ninth Fort, in- The new logo was trademarked as the Club holds mini-Maccabiah Games cluding from Austria, Czechoslova- exclusive property of the Lithuanian to mark 100th year of founding of kia, France, Germany and the Soviet Jewish Community. Union. club with 74 athletes from Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Panevėžys, Šiau- May Restoration of Šeduva Jewish April 21 Oak grove called "Izraelita" liai and Ukmergė competing in five cemetery by Šeduva Jewish Memorial planted near Rukainiai village in the sports: indoor soccer, basketball, vol- Fund receives honorable mention in Vilnius region by Lithuanian Envi- leyball, ping-pong and tennis. European Commission Europa Nos- ronment Ministry, Israeli embassy to tra awards for cultural heritage pro- Lithuania and Vilnius regional ad- May 22 Lithuanian National Mar- tection for 2017. A total of 13 heritage ministration to mark 25 years of Is- tynas Mažvydas Library opens Judaica conservation projects from 11 mem- raeli-Lithuanian diplomatic relations. Research Center for research on Jew- ber-states received awards. ish documentary heritage, educational April 21 Play "Nutildytos mūzos" projects and publication of research. June New "memory stones" installed [Silenced Muses] based on diary of in pavement at Vilniaus street no. 72 young Jewish girl Matilda Olkinaitė May 30 Righteous among the Nations in Kaunas by sole Holocaust survivor performed by Rokiškio teatras asso- award ceremony held by the Israe- in her family Rūta Basaitė-Glikman ciation at Juozas Miltinis Gymnasium li embassy at the Povilas Matulionis to commemorate her parents, grand- in Panevėžys to commemorate Holo- Pre-Gymnasium in Kupiškis, Lithua- father and younger brother. nia to honor Catholic priest Feliksas caust victims. June LJC became a member of the Ereminas (1890–1962) who rescued European Association for the Preser- May 12 Vilkaviškis Jewish commu- Rokha Rozenberg (1925–1987). nity researcher Ralph Salinger and vation and Promotion of Jewish Cul- Lithuanian author of the book "Din- May Announcement of new Litvak ture and Heritage, better known by gusios tautos pėdsakais" [Traces of a logo designed by Viktorija Sideraitė the French acronym AEPJ, whose two Lost Nation] Antanas Žilinskas speak Alon. The Lithuanian Jewish Com- main activities are the European Day at Lithuanian National Martynas munity received permission from of Jewish Culture and the European Mažvydas Library. the Justice Ministry to incorporate Route of Jewish Heritage. 2 June The Israeli embassy to Lithuania painting and art workshop was held put on Israeli Fashion Week during in Šaukšteliškiai village in the Molėtai which clothing designers Maoz Da- region with lessons by Raimondas han of Nouveau Riche Dog, Evaal Ke- Savickas from Lithuania and Alexan- neresh of Clothé, Dor Chen of Holy- der Ganelin and Anna Khodorkovski land Civilians, the Hilli Ari duet and from Israel. jewelry designer Moran Porat visited August 10-October 5 Klezmer mu- Vilnius. sic festival held for sixth time in Vil- June 1 Rūta Guzevičiūtė book "Žydų nius, Klaipėda, Kaišiadorys, Joniškis, kostiumo klajonės laike ir erdvėje" Merkinė and other towns in a [Wanderings of Jewish Costume in nine-concert series called "Music for Time and Space] presented at the LJC. Failed Plays" based on stories from Abraomas Karpinovičius's book "Last June 10 Rositsan and Maccabi Elite Prophet of Vilnius." leaders would maintain current pol- Chess and Checkers Club held icies and insure xenophobia and an- chess tournament to honor Rivka August 27 Third annual Israeli em- ti-Semitism are rooted out in Lithua- Chvoles-Lichtenfeld, the Lithuani- bassy bicycle fun-run held on last nia. Edelstein visited Vilnius earlier in an-Israeli painter and chess player weekend of summer in the run-up to 2009 as the minister of public diplo- who was twice the Lithuanian wom- Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana. macy and Diaspora affairs. en's champion in 1954 and 1955, the September The Cultural Heritage Israeli women's chess champion and September 14 Presentation of book Department under the Lithuanian a member of the Lithuanian national "Aleksandras Livontas ir Olga Štein- Ministry of Culture provides legal women's chess team. berg" [Aleksandras Livontas and Olga protection to the remains of the Great Šteinberg] by cultural scholar profes- July Lithuanian Makabi Athletics Synagogue located at Vokiečių street sor Rita Aleknaitė-Bieliauskienė at Club athletes won medals at 20th an- no. 13A (formerly ulica Żydowska LJC. nual Maccabiah Games in Israel: Neta no. 6) in Vilnius. Alon won two golds in table tennis in September 20 The European Infor- September 4 Palanga Resort Muse- one-on-one and mixed doubles play mation Bureau located in the Lithu- um held academic conference "Jews with Israeli Janiv Karmazin; Mark anian parliament opened an exhibit of Palanga: A Lost Part of the City Šames took silver in badminton; Neta called "Colors in the Life of Rivka Community." Conference was organ- Alon and Vanesa Ražanskytė won an- Chvoles" to commemorate the vic- ized by the museum and the Baltic other bronze in ping-pong; Eduardas tims of the 1943 liquidation of the Regional History and Archaeology Rozentalis took bronze in chess and Vilnius ghetto. Lithuanian MP and Institute of Klaipėda University. Daniel Tarachovskij won bronze in chairman of the parliament's Culture mixed doubles-play with Ukrainian September 8 Opening of exhibition Committee Dr. Arūnas Gelūnas pre- Nataliya Ruzgaizer. of works by Raimondas Savickas's sented the exhibit. painting class and outdoor painting July 10-21 International team of ar- September 25 International confer- workshop students at LJC. chaeologists from Israel, USA, Cana- ence "Diaspora and Heritage: The da and Lithuania conducted a sum- September 13 Speaker of Israeli Shtetl" held at Lithuanian parliament mer dig at Great Synagogue site in Knesset Yuli-Yoel Edelstein made of- to mark the Day of Remembrance of Vilnius and confirmed the existence ficial visit to Lithuania, meeting with Lithuanian Jewish Victims of Geno- of two mikvehs in an area first uncov- LJC members as well attending a cere- cide and the European Day of Jewish ered in 2016 by the same team. mony to honor Righteous Gentiles Ig- Culture. Conference speakers dis- nacy Bujel (1889–1978) and Katarzy- cussed Litvak history, commemora- July 25 Spa Vilnius Center in Drus- na Bujel (1893–1972) at the Vilnius tion and heritage and an exhibition kininkai, Lithuania, hosted exhibi- Sholem Aleichem ORT Gymnasium. funded by the Lithuanian Foreign tion "From Druskininkai to Jerusa- Edelstein visited the Ponar Memori- Ministry called "One Century out lem: Moments in the Life and Work al Complex. "We cannot always talk of Seven: Lithuania, Lite, Lita" was of Jacques Lipchitz." At the opening about friendship, we must take practi- opened in the parliament and which ceremony Vilna Gaon State Jewish cal steps. In all meetings we have dis- will later be sent to Lithuanian em- Museum museum specialist Aušra cussed how to strengthen economic bassies abroad. The Jewish calendar Rožankevičiūtė said a new Jacques and cultural ties and tourism, which for 5778 published by the Lithuanian Lipchitz museum would open in two is experiencing an increase currently," Jewish Community featuring Lithua- years in Druskininkai. the speaker of the Israeli parliament nian synagogues was also launched at July 31-August 4 A plein air outdoor said, adding he hoped Lithuanian the conference. 3 Word from the LJC Chair and their memory honored. Thank you to the municipalities and regional ad- ministrations who realize the impor- tance of taking care of Jewish cemeteries and mass murder sites. Unfortunately this attitude is not yet universal, not all cemeteries and mass murder sites have been configured and registered as inte- gral plots of land, not all cemeteries have been fenced, not all headstones stolen in the Soviet era have been returned to cemeteries, it is still not possible to find way to all mass murder sites, and still only few of the names of those murdered have been commemorated. We are wait- ing for this to become the norm, clearly An international conference called "Diaspora and Heritage: The Shtetl" expressed in state policy and actually was held at the Lithuanian parliament to commemorate the Day of Re- implemented in practice.
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