WORK IN THE FIELD OF LITVAK STUDIES
20212023
Lithuanian Yiddish Video Archive (LYVA)
Virtual
Mini-Museum of Old Jewish Vilna (in progress)
Virtual
Mini-Museum of Interwar Jewish Lithuania (in progress)
Translation
of the Bible into Lithuanian Yiddish (in progress)
Litvish:
An Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish (in progress)
Yiddish
Names of Towns and Cities in Lithuania
A
Cultural Dictionary of Lithuanian Jewish Gravestones (in progress)
Map
of the Lithuanian Holocaust (in progress)
Draft
syllabus for a program in Litvak Studies
Video
excerpts from interviews on the Lithuanian Holocaust
Video
excerpts from interviews on the Latvian Holocaust
Video
clips on current Holocaust history issues
2020
Collection of work on Gaon of Vilna on 300th anniversary of his birth
New book of Yiddish fiction (8 of 12 stories set in pre-World War I Lithuania)
Translations into Lithuanian Yiddish of the Biblical books Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Micah; revised translation of Book of Esther published in Vilnius as booklet
Kovno Leather Merchant D.L. Lipetz Writes to Son-in-Law Dr. Joseph Britanishsky in London (Leon Brittans Father) in 1930
Yiddish and Hebrew Divorce Authorization Form from Early Years of Independent Lithuania
Vilna Jewish Committee for Refugees Certifies Status of Matis Kolinsky (July 1940)The Return of Motke Chabad to Vílne Will Lithuanias Parliament Really Name 2021 for Alleged Participant in LAFs 1941 Kaunas Atrocities?
2019
1931
Letter from Meyshe in Klaipėda (Memel) to his brother Motl in Kharkov
(Kharkiv)
1934
Vilna Yiddish young people's magazine brings news of Yiddish school
in Atlanta, Georgia
1936
inaugural issue of Bostomski & Chaimson's Shúl-fraynd
1930s
Vilna family sends photo to relatives in Israel with message: ‘Don’t
forget us!’
Kaunas
Society of Jesus buys cloth for aprons from M. Tabatchnik’s dry
goods store
Dovid
Lipman’s corner shop in Kóvne (Kaunas) is for electrics,
but offers cosmetics too
Ms.
S. Vulfartaitė's Kóvne shop of exotic butters from Riga
LRT
TV interview; English
original (part)
Interview
with Alexandra Kudukis in The Lithuania Tribune
Bravo
to Hizzoner Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius
When
is a Hollowed-Out Jewish Menorah a Flowerpot?
But
What is a Litvak Symbol?
2018
A
Forgotten Poem by Hirsh Glik on the beauty of nighttime winter Vilna
and its Viliya River
The
1924 Mizrahi (religious Zionist) youth movement membership card of Reuven
Finger
Vilna
Yiddish theatre studio invites Zalmen Reyzen to ‘scenes from Shakespeare,
Schiller, Gorki, Gogol and Büchner’ (in Yiddish)
Jacob
Piliansky, 72, Soft-Spoken Spokesperson for Historic Jewish Truth
A
Hebrew Betar medal from interwar Vilna
On
the Baltic movement to obfuscate the Holocaust
On
Lithuania’s museum of Holocaust denial
2017
The
Book of Ruth. Translated from the Biblical Hebrew into Lithuanian Yiddish
(Ele-Leyzer Chait: Vilnius 2017)
Lithuania’s
Max Soloveitchik writes to his German counterpart in 1922
Lithuanian
textbook for Hebrew schools with Ékhod mi yoydéya
in Lithuanian (Mariampolë 1928)
Joseph
Melamed, 93, a major leader of international Litvak community
On
the extraordinary recent history of Holocaust studies in Lithuania
Letter
from the late Yeshaye Epshteyn
Critique
of a new ‘Litvak’ postage stamp
Inseparable
Threesome: Leyzer Ran, Vilna, and Yiddish (in Charles Berlin (ed), Catalog
of the Leyzer Ran Collection in the Harvard College Library, Harvard
Library: Cambridge, Massachusetts 2017, pp. 13-16).
2016
Is
Eastern European ‘double genocide’ revisionism reaching museums?
Antisemitism
in the 21st century shtetl
Did
Yiddish lose its symbolic position in Vilnius?
2015
Hanukkah
in Vilnius
Lithuania's
Liveliest Cemetery
An
18th Century German-Jewish View of Lithuanian Yiddish
A
New Jewish Memorial in Rokiškis (Rakeshik)
2014
Three
Jewish-letter spellings of 'Vilna' (Vílne/Vílno/Vílna) in a single document
Meilach
Stalevich (1923–2014)
Riva
Shpiz remembers Dugalishik (Daugeliškis)
Seven
Prophet Amos awards for human rights vourage in Lithuania
Yankl-Yosl
Bunk – Jakovas Bunka (1923–2014)
2013
Reconstructing
the Sound Pattern of 19th Century Ashkenazic Hebrew Poetry in Vilna
Mystery
of the Eight-Pointed Western Litvak (Za'meter) Symbol on Jewish Gravestones
The
Fate of a Vilna Jewish Cemetery
Review
of Chodakiewicz’s Intermarium
Purim
in Lithuania?
Other
articles
2012
Yiddish
fiction translated into English
Yiddish
fiction translated into German
2012 version
of the Lithuanian Yiddish Atlas questionnaire
2011
On
the Status of Maps in Linguistic Research (with G. Beconytė)
Detonation
of the Holocaust in 1941: A Tale of Two Books
2010
Lithuanian
Jewish Culture (400 pp. folio, revised
and updated edition, Vilnius 2010)
Work-in-progress
version of Litvish: An Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish
Questionnaire
for Litvish: An Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish
Critique
of neo-Nazi marches in Vilnius and Riga
The
Klaipeda court’s ruling on swastikas
2009
Seven
Kingdoms of the Litvaks (produced for the 2009 Jerusalem Book Fair)
Preface
to The Sounds of Silence (Vilnius 2009)
Tomas
Venclova’s translation into Lithuanian
The
Gaon of Vilna (encyclopedia article in the SMERSH
series)
Yiddish
version of the Užupis Constitution (Paupio St, Vilnius) [fragment]
2008
Excerpt
from Windows to a Lost Jewish Past: Vilna Book Stamps
Jewish
Cultural Correlates of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Yiddish
text & typography for the multilingual sign of the Užupis Republic
(a district of Vilnius)
Interview
with Darius Ross on the ‘Five Litvak rules of drinking’
In
honor of Shimon Alperovitch on his 80th Birthday
Latvia
Expedition I
Latvia
Expedition II
The
one and only Kalmen Kovl (Carl Cowl) I
The
one and only Kalmen Kovl (Carl Cowl) II
The
Remarkable Sherwin Wine I
The
Remarkable Sherwin Wine II
Against
the “Red=Brown” Resolutions before the European Parliament
I
Against
the “Red=Brown” Resolutions before the European Parliament
II
Rokhl
(Rachel) Margolis I
Rokhl
(Rachel) Margolis II
The
Dybbuk of Druya (short story)
The
Golem of Glubok (short story) I
The
Golem of Glubok (short story) II
2007
Joe
Boski, master U.S. diplomat in Vilnius I
Joe
Boski, master U.S. diplomat in Vilnius II
In
honor of Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky I
In
honor of Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky II
In
honor of Fania Yocheles Brantosvsky III
Noah
Shneidman’s Vilna Ghetto medal I
Noah
Shneidman’s Vilna Ghetto medal II
Yehoyesh
I
Yehoyesh
II
The
dialectology of afikéymen (afikomen) in Northeastern Yiddish
A
tear for Shneur-Zalmen
2006
Hirsh
Chosid of Grodna
Meylekh
Stalevich found his mother in a Vilna courtyard
The
priest of Rozhanke in the church that was a synagogue
Feyge-Leye
Katz, tormented convert of Vorne (Varniai)
Hirsh
Pekl of Vilkomir (Ukmerge)
Dobke
Yonis of Zezmer (Žiežmariai)
Meeting
the Multitheists (Pagans) of Lithuania
Stefanija
Gudėniene (once Feygitshke Yoffe) of Utyan (Utena), sole survivor of
the massacre
at
Abolnik (Vabalninkas), who said: “Please write my story when I
die”
2005
The
posthumous Gaon of Vilna and the history of ideas
Yudel
Mark of Palonge (Palanga)
What
does the word Litvak mean?
Blumke
Katz of Svintsyan I
Blumke
Katz of Svintsyan II
Blumke
Katz of Svintsyan III
Who
is a Litvak?
2004
Lithuanian
Jewish Culture
Dangers
of Modern Cartography
Hasidism
in today’s Ukraine, from Chernobyl to Berdichev
Avrom
Orlinsky of Mozer (Mazir)
2003
Beylke
Dillon (Lipkovich) of Oshmene (Ashmiana)
The
Gaon of Vilna’s Yiddish Dialect
Lithuanian
Jewry: Origins, Culture, Identity
Shimke
Gurvitch of Svintsyan (Svencionys)
2002
Itske
Gavenda of Kovne
Blumke
Katz of Svintsyan
Chatskl
Lemkhen of Vilne (Chackelis Lemchenas of Vilnius)
Meirke
Stoler of Radin
The
Bund and Yiddish Culture
Rachel
Kostanian’s Spiritual Resistance in the Vilna Ghetto
Expedition
to Kurland
Vilne
[preface to a book]
The
1999 Murder of Liba Krinitzky in Mir
2001
Lithuanian
intellectuals who lead the way to historic truth
A
new Yiddish institute opens in Vilnius
Three
conferences in Lithuania
On
the Road to the Old Country (Mindaugas Kvietkauskas interview)
Images
from Jewish Belarus (2001)
2000
Images
of Jewish Lithuania (2000)
Images
from the Vitebsk area (2000)
1999
A
Yiddish Experiment in Vilnius
How
to help the Holocaust’s Last Victims
Images
from Jewish Belarus (1999)
Peshke
Levitain and Shleyme Frayman of Smolovitsh (Smalavitshi)
Pinye
Sheyner and Hirsh Revenzon of Drise (Verkhnedvinsk)
Poet
Hirsh Reles of Minsk
Sonia
Pomerantz of Grodno I
Sonia
Pomerantz of Grodno II
Zalmen
Katzkovich of Lintoop (Lintupy)
1998
A
plea on behalf of the Elderly Jews of Eastern Europe
Chatzkel
Lemchen of Vilnius
Dina
Kharik of Minsk
Eli
Goldfand of Amdur (Indura)
Grandmother
Moyne (Mona) comes back to denounce the communists
Joseph
Shapiro’s Private Little Museum in Vilnius
Shleyme
Weinstein of Brisk (Brest)
The
Religious Prestige of the Gaon and the Secular Prestige of Lithuanian
Yiddish
The
secret Prayer House in Kabik, from Stalin’s Times
The
Tzikpins of Mior
The
Yiddish Speaking Architectural Restorers of Minsk
Ziske
Shapiro of Podbrodz (Pabrade)
1997
Avrom-Yankev
Berchifand of Radashkovits
Abrashke
Rogovsky of Radin (and Tel Aviv)
Leeba
Krinitzky of Mir
Meirke
Stoler of Radin
Sore-Rive
Lifschitz of Kabik
1996
Where
is Raysn?
Anna
Verschik of Estonia
1994
New
incarnations of an old debate: the (controversial) Lithuanian Yiddish
based standard pronunciation
1993
Amended
Amendments: Issues in Yiddish Stylistics
1991
New
York Times report on the first Vilnius-Oxford Yiddish studies agreement
1987
Grammar
of the Yiddish Language
1986
Course
on Yiddish Dialectology
1983
Yiddish
Dialectology
1980
The
Wavering Yiddish Segolate and Sociolinguistic Reconstruction
1978
Vocalic
Diaphonemes of the Yiddish Dialects
Líte:
The Classic Litvak Territory
Map
of the Jewish Communities of Lithuania:
Links to their Holocaust Fate
(draft)
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