Interlochen Arts Academy hosted the world premiere of “Echoes of Vilna,” a new two-act play about the Holocaust as it ...

a provincial newspaper published in Vilna, the capital of Soviet Lithuania. The three Jews had been charged with “currency speculation” at a trial last winter and convicted. Basya Resnitski ...

It survived World War II — with some of its staff smuggling its artifacts back to the Vilna ghetto. In America its scholars helped create the field of Jewish studies and launch the klezmer revival.

Jewish society as an active protagonist in the story of the ... the Białystok community and ghetto to several other major communities, including Warsaw and Vilna, makes the volume an even richer ...

(New York Jewish Week) — In 1941, a group of intellectual Jews confined to the Vilna ghetto — writers, scholars, poets and the like — were forced by the Nazis to plunder their own people’s ...

In honor of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s 100th birthday, we take a deep dive into the cultural institution’s massive Yiddish archive. In 1941, a group of intellectual Jews confined ...