Augustinas Savickas, a Lithuanian painter, researcher in fine arts and professor, was born on 12 May 1919 in Copenhagen, Denmark. His father Jurgis Savickis was a Lithuanian writer and diplomat and his mother Ida Trakiner – a medical practitioner born in St Petersburg, in a Jewish family.
You are invited to attend a concert by klezmer musicians to take place at 5:30 P.M., Thursday, August 6.
Klezmer Klangen is a group performing traditional Jewish klezmer music and songs in Yiddish inspired by the ineffable beauty of Jewish ethnic music. Professional musicians who make a living from their musical performances and teaching activities make up the band, a group united by more than just music: in real life they’re a family:
Dainius the father on clarinet;
Rasa the mother, vocals, contrabass, piano;
Saulė, daughter, violin, vocals;
Ramunė, daughter, violin, vocals;
Dovydas, son, vocals, percussion;
Jovita, aunt, accordion, vocals
Dear all,
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The Kaunas Jewish Community will hold a ceremony to commemorate the Lietūkis Garage massacre
at the monument dedicated to the victims located at Miško street No. 1 in Kaunas
at 4:30 P.M. on Friday, June 26, 2015.
The Israeli ambassador and embassy staff plan to attend.
You’re invited as well.
6:30 P.M., July 5, 2015
The women’s choir Naama from Israel will perform a free concert
for the Lithuanian Jewish Community and friends.
The concert will take place in the Jascha Heifetz Hall on the third floor
of the Lithuanian Jewish Community at Pylimo street No. 4, Vilnius.
You’re invited!
The Kaunas Jewish Community is planning to hold an event to commemorate the Lietūkis Garage mass murder at the monument commemorating these victims located at Miško street No. 1 in Kaunas at 4:30 P.M. on Friday, June 26, 2015. The ambassador and staff of the embassy of Israel to Lithuania plan to attend the event. You are invited to come as well.
Litvak Artists: the L’école de Paris period
For the first time in its institutional existence the Lithuanian Jewish Community is planning to hold an educational “en plein air” outdoor painting workshop called “Litvak Artists: the L’école de Paris period.” The workshop will serve as a forum for remembering the rich legacy of Litvak painters and their contributions to art history. It is to include members and friends of the community with an interest in art. Besides painting, the workshop will also feature drawing and ceramics.
“The Lithuanian Jewish Community includes many people with an interest in art. That gave rise to the idea of bringing all of them together and to bring in professional artists as well, to create a special creative atmosphere, to remember famous Litvak painters and to share our rich artistic history,” Junona Berznitski, the initiator and coordinator of the educational workshop, said.
The “en plein air” workshop is to take place at the Ilanka farm (http://www.ilankossodyba.lt) in Šaukšteliškiai village in the Luokesa rural district in the Molėtai region of Lithuania, surrounded by nature and far from the dust and daily routine of the city.
In light of the current wave of unrelenting attacks against Israel’s legitimacy, we the undersigned organizations have joined together to hold a rally in support of Israel.
To all who hold dear the value of human rights and democracy we call you to join us on June 29th between the hours of 12:00 to 15:00 in Geneva at Place des Nations.
Israel is the stronghold of democracy in a region where this basic value is threatened on all fronts. Today hegemony and radicalism threaten to thwart the fervent desire of all the people of the region for a better life, a thriving economy and stable and democratic governance.
At this critical time Israel’s legitimacy is being threatened on many fronts, the right to defend itself is being challenged and false allegations are being leveled in order to divert attention from true abuse of innocent civilian populations.
It is urgent for all to rally together in solidarity and show the world that we will not let agents of terror cynically abuse organizations such as the UN as a platform to wage political war against Israel and manipulate public opinion.
Your presence is urgently needed. Join us and make your voices heard.
Partner Organizations :
Dear Friends,
You are kindly invited to meet the Ambassador of the State of Israel Mr. Amir Maimon.
The meeting will take place in Vilnius Jewish Public Library, Gedimino pr. 24, Vilnius,
on June 18 at 3:30 PM
The main topic of the meeting is Operation Solomon where Mr. Amir Maimon took immediate participation as the Chief Campaign Coordinator (bernardinai.lt). Operation Solomon (Hebrew: מִבְצָע שלמה, Mivtza Shlomo) was a covert Israeli military operation to airlift Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 1991. Non-stop flights of 35 Israeli aircraft, including Israeli Air Force C-130s and El Al Boeing 747s, transported 14,325 Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 36 hours. (Wikipedia) The Jewish Community was threatened by the arising political and military destabilization in the country. A historical documentary to be screened during the meeting
New York Times about the successful campaign:
Looking forward to see you in the library!
RSVP by e-mail: info@vilnius-jewish-public-library.com ; or phone call: (8-5) 219 77 48
The Lithuanian Jewish Community, corporation number 190722117, located at Pylimo No. 4 in Vilnius, Lithuania, calls a conference of the Lithuanian Jewish Community at 12 noon on June 16, 2015.
Planned agenda for the LJC conference:
1. Annual financial report of the LJC for 2014 and report and discussion of LJC activities in 2014;
2. Presentation and discussion of audit report;
3. On additions to LJC regulations.
We warmly welcome all LJC members’ attendance at the conference. A more detailed agenda can be viewed at the LJC headquarters.
For additional information, please call (8 5) 2613 003.
Fainia Kukliansky, LJC chair
Announcement in Lithuanian for >>download
The Bagel Shop tolerance campaign invites you to meet professor Markas Petuchauskas, a theatrical specialist, doctor of art history and the author of a number of books about the art of theater.
The meeting is to take place at 5:30 P.M. on June 16 at the Lithuanian Jewish Community at Pylimo No. 4 in Vilnius.
The professor plans to share his memories of the Vilna ghetto theater, its offerings and actors and the interaction of Lithuanian and Jewish culture. His new book Price of Concord/Portraits of Artists/Interactions of Cultures is to presented at the meeting.
Those who want to attend may register by sending an email to agne.zilinskaite@lzb.lt or by calling+370 613 81889 before 5:00 P.M. on June 15.
Do not miss!
Acceptances will take place on a rolling basis: the final date for submission is May 31, 2015. As an official policy, the MJC does not require payment of any participation fee and will provide accommodation for the duration of the conference. However, the MJC does not provide any financial support for travel to/from the conference or visa applications.
APPLICATION FOR MJC2015 NOW OPEN | The Muslim Jewish Conference
www.mjconference.de
Lithuanian Jewish community invites you: Come Honor the Victims of WWII at Cathedral Square Tonight at 9:00 P.M.
The MJC 2015 will take place in Berlin, Germany, from August 16 to August 23. The application process requires each participant to fill out the online form found via the link below.
Acceptances will take place on a rolling basis: the final date for submission is May 31, 2015. As an official policy, the MJC does not require payment of any participation fee and will provide accommodation for the duration of the conference. However, the MJC does not provide any financial support for travel to/from the conference or visa applications.
Please find all further information inside the application form
Dear friends,
You are kindly invited to a lecture on a very involving and still awaiting for further research topic – The history of Jewish resistance against the Nazi genocide in the occupied USSR.
The lecturer Anika Walke, Ph.D., is assistant professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis and her book is to be published at Oxford University Press.
Place and time: Vilnius Jewish Public Library, Gedimino 24, Vilnius, April 30, 2015, 5 pm
RSVP: info@vilnius-jewish-public-library.com or (8-5) 219 77 48
VOLUNTEERS WANTED!
You are invited to a volunteer clean-up campaign at 1:00 P.M. on April 26, 2015. We need people at the Jewish cemetery in the Šeškinė neighborhood of Vilnius (Sudervės kelias).
You’ll need to wear appropriate clothing and bring work gloves. Those who possess such things are asked to bring rakes.
If you can help, place call 8-652 09205 by April 22, or send an email to info@lzb.lt telling us, so we can pass it on to the organizers. If the weather is unexpectedly bad the clean-up at the cemetery will be rescheduled for another day and those who have registered will be informed.
VILNIUS CONFERENCE 17 APRIL 2015
Final event of the project “Being a Jew” organized in Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia
Vilnius Municipality Council hall, April 17th
Conference agenda:
9.30-10.00 a.m .– Registration of Participants
Part I.
An exhibition of the famous Israeli photographer Zif Koren pictures is opened in Vilnius city municipality.
The Lithuanian Jewish Community, the Vilnius Jewish Community and the
Sholem Aleichem ORT Gymnasium send their greetings out to everyone on this
Passover and
invite YOU to a Seder
to begin at 6:00 P.M., April 3, 2015
at the Radisson Blue Hotel Lietuva at Konstitucijos no. 20 in Vilnius, Lithuania
Alanas Levinas will be master of cermemonies with performances by the
students of Sholem Aleichem and the Fayerlakh ensemble.
You may buy tickets from Julija Lipšic in room 206 at the LJC at Pylimo 4
in Vilnius, telephone 8 659 52 604, and from Ruth Reches, Hebrew teacher
at the Sholem Aleichem ORT Gymnasium, by contacting her by telephone at 8
686 89 530.
Tickets for adults are 15 euros and for children aged 3-15 just 10 euros.
Tickets will be on sale from March 23 till March 31 exclusively.
The number of tickets is limited!