Table of Contents

Leonidas DONSKIS: Preface
John D. KLIER: Traditions of the Commonwealth: Lithuanian Jewry and the Exercise of Political Power in Tsarist Russia
Darius STALIŪNAS: Changes in the Political Situation and the “Jewish Question” in the Lithuanian Gubernias of the Russian Empire (1855-April 1863)
Theodore R. WEEKS: Politics, Society, and Antisemitism: Peculiarities of the Russian Empire and Lithuanian Lands
Vladas SIRUTAVIČIUS: Notes on the Origin and Development of Modern Lithuanian Antisemitism in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century and at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Ezra MENDELSOHN: Some Remarks on the Jewish Condition in Interwar East Central Europe
Eglè BENDIKAITÉ: Expressions of Litvak Pro-Lithuanian Political Orientation c. 1906-c.1921
Česlovas LAURINAVIČIUS: Lithuanian General Aspects of Domestic Policy 1918-1940
Saulius SUŽIEDÈLIS: The Historical Sources for Antisemitism in Lithuania and Jewsih-Lithuanian Relation during the 1930s
Verena DOHRN: State and Minorities. The First Lithuanian Republic and S.M. Dubnov’s Concept of Cultural Autonomy
Yitzhak ARAD: The Murder of the Jews in German-Occupied Lithuania (1941-1944)
Arūnas BUBNYS: The Holocaust in Lithuania: An Outline of the Major Stages at their Results
Gershon GREENBERG: Holocaust and Musar for the Telšiai Yeshivah: Avraham Yitshak and Eliyahu Meir Bloch
Yevgeni ROZENBLAT: The Holocaust in the Western Regions of Belarus
Martin C. DEAN: Lithuanian Participation in the Mass Murder of Jews in Belarus and Ukraine (1941-1944)
Joachim TAUBER: Coming to Terms with a Difficult Past
Summaries
About the Authors

About the Author

Alvydas Nikžentaitis is Director of the Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius, Lithuania. He is the founder and the former director of the Centre for West Lithuanian and Prussian History at the University of Klaipėda, Lithuania. Areas of interest: the history of mediaeval Lithuania, Lithuania in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and stereotypes in historiography. He published several books in Lithuanian on the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Middle Ages, and is the author of the book, Witold i Jagiello. Polacy i Litwini we wzajemnym stereotypie [Vytautas and Jagiello. Poles and Lithuanians in Mutual Stereotyping] (Poznan, 2000).

Stefan Schreiner is Chair for History of Religion and Jewish Studies, and Head of the Institutum Judaicum at Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Germany. He is mainly engaged in the study of Polish-Jewish cultural history and the history and culture of the Karaites in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Darius Staliūnas earned his doctorate from Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1997. Currently, he serves as Deputy Director of the Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius, Lithuania. The author of Visuomenė be universiteto? (Aukštosios mokyklos atkūrimo problema Lietuvoje: XIX a. vidurys–XX a. pradžia) [Society without a University? (On the Reestablishment of a Higher-Education Institution in Lithuania between the Mid-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries)] (Vilnius: Lithuanian History Institute Press, 2000).

Reviews

"a path-breaking collection …The authors of the studies are recognized as leading scholars in the field and their articles offer a wide-ranging objective picture of the issues that are generally free from polemic and stereotypical descriptions" - in: Religious Studies Review, Vol. 31, Issue 1 & 2 (January, April 2005)

"constitutes on the whole a useful contribution to the historiography of the Baltic region, but also to Jewish studies and the growing historiography of non-Russian regions of the Russian empire and Soviet Union." - in: Nordost-Archiv XIV (2005)