ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF ARTICLES

  [About "Surinamers" Who Are Not from Suriname]  [ Afrikaner Yidishe Tzeitung ] [ Anna Weinstein Recalls Life In Kelem ] [ Another Surinamer Surfaces ][ Balys Buracas Photo Exhibition ] [ Box-Tax Paperwork Records ] [ Brandeis University Library ] [ Commitment to Remember ] [ Designing a Litvak Menorah ] [ Excel, Schmexel ] [ Excerpts from The Rosen Legacy ] [ Expulsion of Jews from Lithuania ] [ Eye Witness Series Article #1 ] [ Eye Witness Series Article #2 ] [ Eye Witness Series Article #3 ] [ Eye Witness Series Article #4 ] [ First Telsiai Martyrs 1914 - 1918 ] [ From Yerushalayim d'Lita ] [ From Here to Kovno ] [ The Genocide of the Jews ] [ Jewish Craftsmen in Kaunas Gubernia ] [ A Jewish Life Under the Tsars ] [ Joniskis Area Jewry ] [ Kaisadorys and Zasliai Cemeteries ] [ Kaunas Archive Resources ] [ Letters from Gelvan ] [ Letters from Gelvan - A New Development ] [ The Life and Times of Moses and Rose Simner: 1856 - 1954 ] [ The Life and Times of Ellen and Jacob Cohen: 1870-1950 ]
[ Lithuanian Jews on Postage Stamps: Isaak Levitan 1860-1900 ]
[ Lithuanian Jews on Postage Stamps: Ben Shahn 1898-1969 ] [ Life in the Shtetl of Shnurel ] [ Lituanie Juive 1918-1940 ] [ Litvaks and Their Calendars ] [ LitvakSIG Poetry Page ] [ Mandelshtam ] [ Memorials for Lithuania Shtetls in Cholon, Israel ] [ My Childhood in Trishik ] [ My Mother's Letter ] [My Recent Jewish Heritage Roots Tour to Lithuania and Belarus] [ On the Front Line in Lithuania, 1915 ] [ On the Front Line in Lithuania in 1915 Part 2 ] [ Restoration of the Jewish Cemetery in Yurburg (Jurbarkas), Lithuania ] [ Return to Serei ] [ Revisiting Roots in Lithuania ] [ Rite/Rituals for Prayer ] [ SA Landsmannschaften Records ] [ Sveksna: Our Town ] [ Telsiai Jewish Cemetery ] [ Unmarked Lives ] [ Lists of Urban Voters ] [ The Vievis Jewish Cemetery ] [ Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum ] [ Visiting Leckava Jewish Cemetery ] [ What does a Litvak look like ? ] [ What's in a Name ? ] [ An Interview with Woolf Zasman ] [ YIVO Collection ] [ Yom Hashoa 2004 ] [ Zeimelis Jewish Cemetery ] [ Zemaiciu Naumestis Cemetery Visit ]

Table of Contents By Date

August 2008 - My Recent Jewish Heritage Roots Tour to Lithuania and Belarus

July 2008 - The Life and Times of Moses and Rose Simner: 1856 - 1954

March 2008 - Restoration of the Jewish Cemetery in Yurburg (Jurbarkas)

January 2008 - The Life and Times of Ellen and Jacob Cohen: 1870-1950

December 2007 - What's in a Name? The Problem of Name Changes in the Search for Family Roots

November 2007 - Memorials for Lithuania Shtetls in Cholon, Israel

March 2007 - Sveksna: Our Town

January 2007 - Letters from Gelvan - A New Development by Geraldine (Faigeh Gisseh) Adelman Powers Volper

October 2005 - About “Surinamers” Who Are Not from Suriname - A Search from Shoe Box to Internet

                         - Another Surinamer Surfaces

August 2005 - On the Front Line in Lithuania in 1915 Narratives of Jewish Eyewitnesses Part 2 by Anatolij Chayesh

May 2004 - Speech by Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein at the Annual Yom Hashoah Ceremony

February 2002 - Excerpts from the Rosen Legacy by Claire L. Datnow

November 2001 - The Zeimelis Jewish Cemetery by Barry Mann

November 2001 - The Vievis Jewish Cemetery by Harold Perloff

October 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.

September 2001 -  Return to Serei by Chana Rosen

August 2001 -  On the Front Line in Lithuania, 1915: Stories of Jewish Eyewitnesses, by Anatolii Chayesh, translated by Gordon McDaniel.

August 2001- 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.

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

July 2001- Visiting the Jewish Cemetery of Zemaiciu Naumestis by Dr. Aleksandrs Feigmanis, e-mail aleksgen@mailcity.com

March 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.

October 2000 - Revisiting Roots in Lithuania by Hedy Pagremanski Page

July 2000 - Litvaks and the Founding of Brandeis University by Steven Weiss

July 2000 - From Yerushalayim d'lita by Debbie Berliner

June 2000 - What Rite or Ritual for Prayer Was in General Use Among the Jews in Lithuania? by Shalom Bronstein

Dec 1999 - An Eye Witness Series Article #4. List of Jews in Kelme, compiled by Mrs. Emilija Valanciene, April 8, 1988. Translation by LitvakSIG.

Dec 1999 - 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.

Nov 1999 - An Eye Witness Series Article #2 . Glimpses of History:  Jewish Organizations in Kelme by Vaclovas Rimkus, "Biciulis," December 16, 1992. Translation by LitvakSIG.

Nov 1999 - An Eye Witness Series Article #1.  Following the Traces Left by Fascist Killers, by Mary Javno-Voronova, Siauliai, 1960. Translation by LitvakSIG.

July 1999 - What Does a Litvak Look Like? by Judith Shulamith Langer-Surnamer Caplan. How many of you have ever wondered what a LITVAK looks like?