LitvakSIG

The All-Lithuania Database and LitvakSIG 2004, From the Jerusalem 2004 Conference, by Judy Baston (August 2004)

Exhibition - The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Artifacts of the Vilna Ghetto

Speech by Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein at the Annual Yom Hashoa Ceremony (May 2004)

Anna Weinstein Recalls Life in Kelem (Kelme), by Bob Weiss (November 2003)

Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam, Russian Poet (1889-1938), by Vitaly Charny (October 2003)

Visiting the Telsiai Jewish Cemetery by Aleksandrs Feigmanis (October 2003)

An Interview with Woolf Zasman by Mary Kropman (August 2003)

Box-Tax Paperwork Records by Anatolij Chayesh (June 2003)

Commitment to Remember - A Book Review by Debbie Berliner (June 2003)

Life in the Shtetl of Shnurel - the Memoirs of Mary Hellen Herr Bernhard (June 2003)

Joniskis Area Jewry by Jurgita Matuliene (February 2003)

Designing a Uniquely Personal and Genealogically Oriented Litvak Menorah by Judi Langer-Surnamer Caplan (December 2002)

My Mother's Letter by Raja Schiff Shlom-Berkman (November 2002)

Balys Buracas - Lithuanian Photo Exhibit (November 2002)

Lithuanian Jews on Postage Stamps: Ben Shahn 1898-1969 by Vitaly Charny (July 2002)

Lithuanian Jews on Postage Stamps: Isaak Levitan 1860-1900 by Vitaly Charny (June 2002)

The Genocide of the Jews by Neringa Latvyte – Gustaitiene (Apr 2002)

Urban Voters 1905-1912 by Anatolij Chayesh (Apr 2002)

Unmarked Lives by Joanne Soroka (Apr 2002)

A Jewish Life Under the Tsars, book review by Ira Leibowitz (Mar 2002)

Vsia Vilna 1915 Contributed by Scott Noar, contains over 17,400 entries from the 1915 city directory for Vilnius, Lithuania (Mar 2002)

Excerpts from the Rosen Legacy by Claire L. Datnow (Feb 2002)

The Zeimelis Jewish Cemetery by Barry Mann (Nov 2001)

The Vievis Jewish Cemetery by Harold Perloff (Nov 2001)

My Childhood in Trishik. The following eyewitness accounts of life in the shtetl of Trishik in the 1870's and 1880's are excerpts from MeeZichronoti, the MEMOIRS of ITA HERSCH who was born ITA MELAMED, in 1871, in Trishik (Tryskiai), and who died in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1958. (Oct 2001)

Return to Serei by Chana Rosen (Sept 2001)

On the Front Line in Lithuania, 1915,

LitvakSIG was proud to co-sponsor, along with the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, the appearances of Vitalija Gircyte, Head Archivist of the Kaunas Regional Archives, Laima Tautvaisaite, Director of the Vilnius Lithuanian State Historical Archives, and Galina Baranova, Head Archivist of the Vilnius Archives, at the IAJGS Conference in London, July 8-13, 2001. To read their highly informative talks you have only to click on the name of each individual archivist -- and to see the full range of other articles you can read, please click on the Online Journal. (Aug 2001)

Letters from Gelvan by Gerry Adelman (Faigeh Giseh) Powers Volper (July 2001)

Visiting the Jewish Cemetery of Zemaiciu Naumestis by Dr. Aleksandrs Feigmanis (July 2001)

From Here To Kovno: For Upper West Side Documentary Filmmaker, Search for Grandfather’s House Leads to Family Revelations. Susan Josephs Staff Writer, The Jewish Week. (March 2001)

Litvaks and the Founding of Brandeis University by Steven Weiss

From Yerushalayim d'lita by Debbie Berliner

As I Explained to Rodger Kamenetz by Shulamith Surnamer

Poems on the poetry pages - (Added June '00)

What Rite or Ritual for Prayer Was in General Use Among the Jews in Lithuania? by Shalom Bronstein

Jewish Craftsmen in Kaunas Gubernia, from the Standpoint of Genealogy and Local History (According to Materials in the Saint Petersburg Archives)

The LitvakSIG Poetry Page - (Added May '00)

The First Martyrs in Our Village of Telsiai 1914 -1918 by Velvel Zev Noy - (Added May '00)

Visiting Leckava Jewish Cemetery - Over 150 names found in the Jewish Cemetery in Leckava, Lithuania. (Added May '00)

Litvaks and Their Calendars or How to Navigate Between the Torah Portion and the Hebrew, Gregorian, and Julian Calendars by Jacob Bleadon. (Added April '00)

Book review by Joost van Beek, LITUANIE JUIVE 1918-1940. (Added Mar '00)

Uyezd Citation Tables for All Lithuania Database (Added Feb '00)

The Expulsion of the Jews from Lithuania in the Spring of 1915 (Added Feb '00)

Translations/Transliterations Standards Intro page (Added Jan '00)

Tax Lists Intro page (Added Jan '00)

Voters Lists Intro page (Added Jan '00)

Revision Lists Intro page (Added Jan '00)

Fields included in the Revision Lists Table page (Added Jan '00)

LitvakSIG Research Groups page (Added Jan '00)

Home Page (Added Jan '00)

All Lithuania Database Introduction (Added Jan '00)

Publications / Books / Articles / Audio / Video (Added Jan '00)

Shtetl / Uyezd / Guberniya Table (Added Jan '00)

The Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum 10th Anniversary. Thank you letter from Deputy Director, Rachel Kostanian (Added Dec '99)

An Eye Witness Series Article #4. List of Jews in Kelme, compiled by Mrs. Emilija Valanciene, April 8, 1988. Translation by LitvakSIG. (Added Dec '99)

An Eye Witness Series Article #3. The Jews of Uzventis in 1941. This is a list of Jewish People, compiled in 1977, by Mrs. Stases Butkeviciene from the town of Uzventis. Translation by LitvakSIG. (Added Dec '99)

An Eye Witness Series Article #2. Glimpses of History: Jewish Organizations in Kelme by Vaclovas Rimkus, "Biciulis," December 16, 1992. Translation by LitvakSIG. (Added Nov '99)

Shtetls of Lithuania: Visit the "Shtetls of Lithuania" page created by Edward Rosenbaum, with assistance from Davida Noyek Handler, Anne Rothman, and Trevor Tucker (Added Nov '99)

An Eye Witness Series Article #1. Following the traces left by fascist killers by Mary Javno-Voronova, Siauliai, 1960. Translation by LitvakSIG. (Added Nov '99)

What does a Litvak look like? by Judith Shulamith Langer-Surnamer Caplan.
How many of you have ever wondered what a LITVAK looks like? (Added July '99)

Search the "All Lithuania" Database (Updated 6th July '99)

LitvakSIG wins a Links²Go "Jewish Genealogy "Jewish Genealogy" award.

Each quarter, Links2Go samples millions of web pages to determine which pages are most heavily cited by web pages authors. The most popular pages are downloaded and automatically categorized by topic. At most 50 of the pages related to a topic are selected as "Key Resources." Out of 31 pages selected as Key Resources for the Jewish Genealogy topic, this page ranked 15th. (Added 13th May '99)

Afrikaner Yidishe Tzeitung Article by Ada Green. This Yiddish-language weekly newspaper published in Johannesburg from 1942 to 1971, ran a series of pictures that were taken in Lithuanian shtetls before World War II. (Added 7th May '99)

Kovno Cemetery List (1941-1943) compiled by Sylvia Furshman Nusinov, Oct 30th 1997. This 44 page Yiddish manuscript contained nearly 900 surnames of the Jewish dead buried in the Kovno Cemetery between the years 1941 to 1943. (Added 6th May'99)

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