Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 25 – Jews in the Former Grand Duchy of Lithuania Since 1772

Aearunas Liekis is Dean and Professor of the Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas. He studied and did postgraduate research at Vilnius University (habilitation procedure passed in 2005); Brandeis University (1993 - 98, Ph.D.); the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and the University of Oxford. He publishes extensively on Jewish history, minority issues, and the international and political history of Lithuania and Poland. His latest book is 1939: The Year that Changed Everything in Lithuania's History (2010). Antony Polonsky is Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Until 1991, he was Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is chair of the editorial board of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry; author of Politics in Independent Poland, 1921 - 1939 (1972), The Little Dictators (1975), The Great Powers and the Polish Question, 1941 - 45 (London, 1976); co-author of The History of Poland since 1863 (1980) and The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland (1981); and co-editor of Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland: An Anthology (2001) and The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland (2004). His most recent work is The Jews in Poland and Russia, I: 1350 - 1881); II: 1881 - 1914; III: 1914-2008 (2010 - 12), published by the Littman Library. ChaeRan Freeze is associate professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia (2001), which received the Koret Foundation Publication Award and the Salo Baron Award for the Best First Book in Jewish Studies. She is co-editor (with Jay Harris) of Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia, 1825 - 1914: Select Documents (forthcoming) and is working on a book Sex and the Shtetl: Gender, Family, and Jewish Sexuality in Tsarist Russia.

Note on Place Names Note on Transliteration PART I: JEWS IN THE FORMER GRAND DUCHY OF LITHUANIA SINCE 1772 Introduction sarunas liekis and antony polonsky Lithuanian Jewry and the Concept of 'East European Jewry' mordechai zalkin Economic Relations between Jewish Traders and Christian Farmers in the Nineteenth-Century Lithuanian Provinces aelita ambruleviciute The War of Lyady Succession: R. Aaron Halevi versus R. Dov Baer immanuel etkes Lithuanian Antisemitism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries darius staliunas 'I Have Chosen the Belarusian Word ...': On the Life and Creative Career of Zmitrok Byadulya andrey krotau Authentic and National: Some Lithuanian - Jewish Correlations in the Search for 'Folk Culture' in the First Half of the Twentieth Century larisa lempertiene Jewish Prayer Halls and Synagogues in Vilna, 1914 - 1920 ausra paA eraite Walking a Thin Line: The Successes and Failures of Socialist Zionism in Lithuania egle bendikaite Jewish Converts in Independent Lithuania, 1918 - 1940: An Attempt at a Case Analysis saulius kaubrys 'A Close, but Very Suspicious and Dangerous Neighbour': Outbreaks of Antisemitism in Inter-War Lithuania vladas sirutavicius The Bund in Vilna, 1918 - 1939 jack jacobs The Lithuanian-Language Jewish Periodicals Musu garsas (1924 - 1925) and ApA valga (1935 - 1940): A Sociolinguistic Evolution anna verschik 'Listen, the Jews are Ruling Us Now': Antisemitism and National Conflict during the First Soviet Occupation of Lithuania, 1940 - 1941 saulius suA iedelis Soviet Resistance and Jewish Partisans in Lithuania sarunas liekis The Vilnius and Kaunas Ghettos and the Fate of Lithuanian Jewry, 1941 - 1945 theodore r. weeks 'To Transform Ourselves': Lithuania Looks at the Holocaust ellen cassedy The Problem of Jewish National Symbols in Vilnius david e. fishman Some Remarks on the History of the New Lithuanian Jewish Community: The Road Travelled in Establishing a Litvak Identity vytautas toleikis The Recent Works of Grigory Kanovich anna p. ronell The Dream of a Vanished Jerusalem grigory kanovich reviews Ausra Paulauskiene, Lost and Found: The Discovery of Lithuania in American Fiction michael casper Tomas Venclova, Vilnius: A Personal History michael casper PART II JEWS IN POLISH MEDICINE Dr Gershon Lewin (1868 - 1940): Pioneer of Public Health and Promoter of Jewish Culture in Poland karin ohry-kossoy and avi ohry Dedicated Physicians in the Face of Adversity: The Association of Jewish Physicians (ZLRP) and the Jewish Health Organization (TOZ) in Poland, 1921 - 1942 karin ohry-kossoy and avi ohry The Medical School in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1941 - 1942 marta aleksandra balinska Ethical Dilemmas in the Work of Doctors and Nurses in the Warsaw Ghetto miriam offer Notes on the Contributors Index