Translation of Yahadut Lita
Published by The Association of The Lithuanian Jews in Israel, 1959
Edited by Natan Goren, Leib Garfunkle, Rafael Hasman, Dov Lipitz,
Dr. Eliahu Segel, Israel Kaplan, Reuben Rubinstein
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Title | Author | Page | |
1. | From the Editors | 13 | |
2. | Acknowledgements | 14 | |
3. | Message from President | Yitzhak Ben-Zvi | 15 |
4. | Message from the Chief Rabbi | Rabbi Yitzhak Issac Halevi Herzog, May the Memory of the Righteous be for a Blessing | 16 |
5. | Introduction: The Lithuanian Puzzle | Professor Joseph Klausner, of Blessed Memory | 17 |
  | |||
PART ONE: HISTORY | |||
1. | History of the Jews of Lithuania | Dr. Israel Klausner | 23 |
2. | The Council of Lithuanian Jews | Shmuel Spector | 124 |
3. | Karaites in Lithuania | Dov Lipetz | 138 |
4. | The Economy of Lithuanian Jews | Arieh Finkelstein | 151 |
  | |||
PART TWO: TORAH | |||
1. | Centers of Torah | Dr. Shmuel Bialovlotzki | 185 |
2. | The Volozhin Yeshiva | Shimon Zak | 206 |
3. | The Mir Yeshiva | Moshe Tzinovitz | 214 |
4. | Eishyshok the City of Perushim | Moshe Tzinovitz | 218 |
5. | The Radun Yeshiva | Moshe Tzinovitz | 222 |
6. | Slabodka, Telz & Panevezys | Rabbi Dov Katz | 226 |
7. | The Lyda Yeshiva | Shimon Zak | 242 |
8. | Jewish Religious [Halakhic] Literature | Rabbi Arieh Karlin, obm. | 247 |
9. | History of the Romm Printing Press | Shmuel Shraga Feigensohn (Shfn the author) | 268 |
Notes [to above article] | Dr. Hayim Bar-Dayan | 297 | |
10. | Synagogues in Lithuania | David Cutler | 303 |
  | |||
PART THREE: MOVEMENTS AND PERSONALITIES | |||
1. | Changing of the Guard | Dr. Zvi Vislavsky | 312 |
2. | The Musar Movement | Dr. Yechiel Ya'akov Weinberg | 320 |
3. | Lithuanian Opposition [to Hasidism] | Dr. Isaiah Aviad (Wolfsberg), obm. | 337 |
4. | Lithuanian Preachers [Magidim] | Yitzhak Arigur | 346 |
5. | The Gaon Rabbi Elijah of Vilna The Greatness and Glory of Lithuania | Rabbi Yehuda Leib Hakohen Maimon | 353 |
The Life and Deeds of the Gaon of Vilna | Professor Sh. K. Mirsky | ||
6. | The Netziv of Volozhin | Rabbi Moshe Zvi Neriah | 365 |
7. | Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spektor | S. Daniel | 370 |
8. | Rabbi Israel Salanter | Dr. Menahem Gershon Glenn | 379 |
9. | Our Teacher the Chofetz Hayim | Moshe Tzinovitz | 391 |
10. | Rabbi Itchele of Panevezys | Dr. Shmuel Bialovlotzki | 394 |
11. | The Last Rabbi of Kovno | Rabbi Hayim Karlinsky | 398 |
  | |||
PART FOUR: HASKALAH [THE ENLIGHTENMENT] | |||
1. | Hebrew and General Enlightenment in Lithuania | Professor Joseph Klausner, obm. | 405 |
2. | Solomon Maimon | Professor Samuel Atlas | 413 |
3. | Mordecai Aaron Ginzburg | Barukh Karo | 419 |
4. | ADM Hakohen Lebensohn | Dr. Gedalia Alkoshi | 422 |
5. | Micah Joseph Lebensohn | Dr. Gecalia Alkoshi | 429 |
6. | Abraham Mapu | Professor Joseph Klausner, obm. | 429 |
7. | Samuel Joseph Pin | Dr. Gedalia Alkoshi | 438 |
8. | Kalman Shulman | K. A. Bartini | 442 |
9. | Judah Leib Gordon | Dr. Abba Ahimeyer | 446 |
10. | Moses Leib Lilienblum | Shalom Kramer | 450 |
  | |||
PART FIVE: ZION | |||
1. | The Attachment of Lithuanian Jewry to Eretz Yisrael | Professor Joseph Joel Rivlin | 457 |
2. | Hibbat Zion [Love of Zion Movement] in Lithuania | Dr. Israel Klausner | 489 |
3. | The Zionist Movement in Lithuania | Dr. Israel Klausner | 508 |
4. | Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reines | Moshe Cohen, obm. | 530 |
5. | Professor Zvi (Hermann) Schapira | Dr. Israel Klausner | 533 |
6. | David Wolfsohn | Dr. Isaiah Aviad (Wolfsberg), obm. | 535 |
7. | Poalei Zion in Lithuania | Jacob Zerubavel | 539 |
8. | The Bund Movement in Lithuania | Zev Yasni | 545 |
  | |||
PART SIX: EDUCATION AND THE ARTS | |||
1. | The Pedagogic Courses in Grodno | Aaron Karon, obm. | 565 |
2. | Mark Antokolski | Dr. Karl Schwartz | 572 |
3. | Isaac Levitan | Dr. Karl Schwartz | 574 |
4. | The Vilna Troupe | Alexander Azra | 576 |
  | |||
PART SEVEN: FOLKLORE | |||
1. | Lithuanian Jewish Folklore | Joseph Gotferstein | 583 |
2. | List of Personalities and Locations | 628 | |
3. | List of Photographs in Book | 645 | |
  | |||
MAPS | |||
1. | Jewish Settlements in Lithuania before 1495 | 24 | |
2. | Jewish Settlements in Lithuania 1503-1569 | 31 | |
3. | Jewish Settlements in Lithuania 1667-1795 | 37 | |
4. | Jewish Settlements in Lithuania 1569-1667 | 56 |
Translator's note:
I have used 'obm.'(of blessed memory) for the Hebrew letters ZL which was written next to the names of those authors who died before the book was published.
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