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The Jews of Lithuania
The Jews of Lithuania

The Jews of Lithuania

A Journey Through the long Twentieth Century

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HISTORY

324 Pages, 6 x 9

Formats: Trade Paper, PDF, EPUB

Trade Paper, $29.95 (US $29.95) (CA $39.95)

Publication Date: September 2024

ISBN 9781803710655

Rights: US & CA

Vallentine Mitchell (Sep 2024)

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Overview

This book is the result of a personal quest to understand more about Nick’s family background in eastern Europe. It leads him to dig deeply into many of the big questions about modern Jewish history in Lithuania.Why were lots of Jewish people living in Lithuania in the late nineteenth century? Were their lives becoming difficult at that time and, if so, why was this? Why did some Jews emigrate? How did these people choose where to go and how did they make the move? What happened to their family and friends left behind, both during the First World War and in the inter-war period? Why and how were Lithuania’s Jews murdered in the Holocaust and how has Lithuanian society tried to come to terms with this in the post-war world?Much modern Jewish history in Lithuania is terrible. About 96% of the pre-war Jewish population was murdered in the Holocaust. But this book also reflects on positive aspects of the Jewish experience in Lithuania: for many years it was a good place for Jews to live and those who emigrated carried with them Jewish traditions and approaches to life and learning acquired while living there which stood them in good stead in their new countries.

Reviews

"The Jews of Lithuania stands as a deeply moving and rigorously researched account of one of the most vibrant and tragically destroyed Jewish communities in Europe. Combining professional historical scholarship with a profoundly personal family narrative, Sayers delivers a work that is both intellectually compelling and emotionally resonant." —The J Newspaper

Author Biography

Nicholas Sayers read history at Magdalen College, Oxford 1978–1981. He spent his working life as a corporate transactional lawyer and was a partner at several leading London law firms. He has a Masters in Historical Research from Birkbeck and is an Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute, University of Southampton.