Guardian Report Notes Vilnius Yiddish Summer Course’s “Secret Lectures in...
Jonathan Freedland’s article in today’s Guardian includes the sad tale of the founder of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute having to give his lectures at students’ homes after being banned by the...
View ArticleVilnius University to Host Exhibit by Antisemitic, Homophobic “Envelope Artist”
According to Vilnius University’s website, a ceremony to open an exhibition of “envelope art” by Antanas Šakalys will be held in the White Hall of the university’s main library on 27 September at 2 PM....
View ArticleVilnius University Calls Antisemitic, Racist, Homophobic Artist “Humanistic”...
A dedicated Facebook page provides facts and photos on today’s dignified and courageous demonstration by a small group of young Lithuanian human rights advocates against Vilnius University’s proceeding...
View ArticleBloomington-Borns Jewish Studies Arranges for 2nd Right-Wing Soviet-Israeli...
Through the good offices of the Borns Jewish Studies program at Indiana University (Bloomington), and its Dr. Alice Field Cohn Chair Yiddish studies professor, D.B. Kerler (“Boris Karloff”), who...
View ArticleEHU Center for German Studies: “Colloquium Vilnense 2013” is Short on “The...
O P I N I O N by Dovid Katz Colleagues at the prestigious European Humanities University in Vilnius (EHU, also known as the Belarusian Humanities University, in exile here in Vilnius) have passed on...
View ArticleRed-Brown Commission Member Takes Katz-Bashing Campaign to Litvak Culture...
O P I N I O N A senior historian and his government’s “master fixer for foreign Jewish academics,” Professor Sarunas Liekis told an audience of hundreds in Philadelphia last Sunday that Dovid Katz had...
View ArticleWiesenthal Center’s Israel Office Releases 2007 Correspondence with LA Board...
Editor’s note: The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office today released for the record the following September 2007 email exchange with the director of the Los Angeles based “Friends of the Vilnius...
View ArticleYiddish Roulette? One Resigns in Bloomington, Another Rides In from Buffalo
Sources in Bloomington, Indiana and Vilnius, Lithuania, confirmed this week that Dr. Daniel R. Berg, an eminent physician in the greater Bloomington area, has resigned from the rump “Board of Friends”...
View ArticleWJC Executive Director Michael Schneider Goes on the Record in Vilnius, about...
The following is a reprint of the interview given by Michael Schneider, executive director of the World Jewish Congress, dated 9 April 2014 and posted shortly thereafter on the website of the Jewish...
View ArticleCould WJC get Ensnared in “Yiddish” as Cover for Holocaust Revisionism in...
O P I N I O N A recent report, also available as PDF, suggests sudden and deep involvement of the World Jewish Congress in the Lithuanian government’s repeatedly documented use of Yiddish, Judaic...
View ArticleTel Aviv’s Leyvik House Issues Call to World Jewish Congress on Vilnius...
TEL AVIV— Daniel Galay, director of Leyvik House in central Tel Aviv, one of Israel’s major Yiddish culture institutions, issued the following statement today on the Leyvik House website (copy), and...
View ArticleProf. Olegas Poliakovas, Longtime Member of Vilnius University’s Senate,...
VILNIUS—The office of Vilnius University’s Professor Olegas Poliakovas, a leading philologist and member of the Senate of Vilnius University (from 2001 to 2014), issued this statement today concerning...
View ArticleMilan Chersonski, Longtime Editor of “Jerusalem of Lithuania” Calls on World...
VILNIUS—Milan Chersonski made public today the text of his letter to Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress. Mr. Chersonski was editor-in-chief of the quadrilingual...
View ArticleRegina Kopilevich, Genealogist and Historical Tour Guide for Jewish...
VILNIUS—Regina Kopilevich, whose extensive contributions to Jewish genealogy and tourism have been covered by the New York Times, today released a statement about the new Yiddish language teaching...
View ArticleA Kyrgyz-Kazakhstani Yiddish Twist? Was A. Mashkevich, Major Jewish...
Sources in the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and ORT, themselves asking to remain anonymous, have leaked to select media contacts that the “secret donor” for the secretive new WJC/ORT Yiddish cultural...
View ArticleIn English Translation: V. Brandišauskas’s Classic Review of A. Liekis
D O C U M E N T S / B O O K S / H I S T O R Y ◊ The following is an English translation of a book review by Valentinas […]
View ArticleMember of Red-Brown Commission and Trasher of Yiddish Dissidents is Appointed...
O P I N I O N ◊ VILNIUS—Waves of shock laced with the “actual” human rights community’s usual black humor undulated through the different struggling branches of that community this week as the Council...
View ArticleWhy Was Richard Maullin, Head of California ISO, Honored by the Foreign...
O P I N I O N ◊ LOS ANGELES—Richard A. Maullin, elected less than a year ago as the chair of the California Independent System Operator (ISO) Board, was lavishly honored here on May 31st by both the...
View ArticleUCL “Point Man” Honored in Vilnius
LONDON—Defending History readers are familiar with the curious history of University College London’s Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies repeatedly providing cover for Lithuanian government...
View ArticleIn Reply to Summertime Yiddishists in Vilnius
VILNIUS—The following Facebook post, on the page of DH’s editor, issued today, is republished below. For context and a fuller picture, see DH’s recent report on the manipulation of Yiddish by the...
View ArticleBaltic Red-Brown “Nazi-Soviet Hunter” Featured at Brazil’s Olympics in Rio
OPINION | RED-BROWN COMMISSION (PAGE) | RB COMMISSION (SECTION) | DOUBLE GENOCIDE | VILNIUS YIDDISH INSTITUTE ◊ VILNIUS—The news portal Delfi.lt reported yesterday on Lithuanian sharpshooting...
View ArticleIs Prof. Krutikov the Latest Lithuanian Gov. “Yiddish Star” to be Manipulated?
OPINION | JEWISH STUDIES AS COVER | YIDDISH AFFAIRS ◊ VILNIUS—Beware of any academic conference hosted by a nation’s parliament. This isn’t about Lithuania, the Baltics, or Eastern Europe. It’s...
View ArticleText of Irish Ambassador Dónal Denham’s 2008 Speech at Brantsovsky Reception...
DOCUMENTS | IRELAND | BLAMING THE VICTIMS? ◊ Nearly a decade after HE Dónal Denham’s 3 June 2008 historic reception for Fania Brantsovsky, a hero of the Holocaust-era anti-Nazi Jewish partisan...
View ArticleOnce Again, Sophomoric and Substandard Journalism at the Yiddish Forward
OPINION | YIDDISH AFFAIRS | VILNIUS YIDDISH INSTITUTE (VYI) | “YIDDISH” AS COVER FOR HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IN EASTERN EUROPE | MEDIA WATCH ◊ by Dovid Katz ◊ Over many years, the jaundiced...
View ArticleVilnius Academic Accuses State History Commission of Having Too Many Foreign...
VILNIUS—A prominent Vilnius academic known for Holocaust “fixing”, “proud” antisemitism, and a desire to make a national holiday of the day the anti-Jewish violence broke out in Lithuania in 1941, Dr....
View ArticleCurious History of a Yiddish Professorship at Vilnius University & its...
LAST UPDATE YIDDISH AND JUDAIC STUDIES MANIPULATED FOR HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM | VILNIUS YIDDISH INSTITUTE | BORNS JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY | RICHARD MAULLIN ◊ Its Prehistory...
View ArticleThose Thousands of Yiddish Books in Vilnius?
OPINION | YIDDISH AFFAIRS | VILNIUS YIDDISH INSTITUTE ◊ VILNIUS—Reports are mounting of inquiries about thousands of Yiddish books donated between 2000 and 2018 to “Vilnius University’s Yiddish...
View ArticleIreland’s Ambassador Donal Denham Hosts a Reception for Fania Yocheles...
The Embassy of Ireland in Lithuania issued a certificate of lifetime achievement to Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky, signed by HE Ambassador Dónal Denham, who presented the award at a reception today at the...
View ArticleDr Efraim Zuroff’s Seminar at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute is Blackballed
The assistant director of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute, Ruta Puisyte, reported today that Dr. Efraim Zuroff’s scheduled seminar at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute was cancelled on the orders of the...
View ArticleDissenting Academic Rapidly Replaced with Foreign Stand-in at the Jerusalem...
After authoring the book on Litvak culture for the Lithuanian section at the Jerusalem Book Fair, the editor of this website declined to attend to chair the Yiddish culture session, when he was asked...
View ArticleVilna Ghetto Victims Substituted for War Criminals List in the Baltic Times;...
Part of a list of Jewish victims of the Vilna Ghetto (including fallen resistance hero Yechiel Sheinboim) appears in the Baltic Times instead of the captioned list of alleged Nazi-allied murderers...
View ArticleSeminars in Secret at the Annual Summer Program in Yiddish when the Topic is...
Seminars on Holocaust Obfuscation had to be held in private apartments during the Summer Program in Yiddish Language and Literature. [UPDATES added in later months as these materials appeared: Memoirs...
View ArticleGerman President awards Fania Brantsovsky the Federal Cross of Merit
…Antisemitic Tirade Follows in Vilnius Antisemitic reaction on Lithuania’s main news portal came within minutes of the German embassy’s press release announcing its award to anti-Nazi Jewish partisan...
View ArticleLithuania’s Main News Portal Calls Jewish Partisan Hero Fania Brantsovsky a...
Minutes after the German Embassy in Vilnius issued a press release announcing that it had awarded Germany’s Federal Cross of Merit to Holocaust survivor Fania Yocheles Brantsovsky (born 1922),...
View ArticleKey Diplomats in Vilnius ‘walk in the rain’ with VYI Librarian Fania Yocheles...
At the initiative of Norway’s ambassador to Lithuania HE Steinar Gil, a group of ambassadors and chiefs of mission defied persistent rain to go on a historical walking tour of the Vilna Ghetto, where...
View ArticleBrazauskas Dies; Builder of Modern Lithuania who Embraced all his Country’s...
Algirdas Brazauskas (1932-2010), visionary first elected president and later prime minister of free Lithuania died today in Vilnius. In each of his land’s highest offices he proved himself a leader in...
View ArticleLithuania’s Last Jewish Professor has Contract Terminated, after Mounting...
Discontinuation of the contract of Lithuania’s last Jewish professor — Dovid Katz, founding Yiddish professor at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute and editor of this website — for having mounted a defense...
View ArticleHolocaust Revisionists Successfully Manipulate Borns Jewish Studies Program...
After authoring the book on Litvak culture for the Lithuanian section at the February 2009 Jerusalem Book Fair, the editor of this website who is the founding professor of Yiddish at the Vilnius...
View ArticleDirector of Yiddish Institute heading to Kazakhstan to Promote Freedom of...
OR: YIDDISH BORAT, HAVING SAVED FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IN LITHUANIA, HEADS FOR KAZAKHSTAN TO EDUCATE THE OSCE. HE ‘CLEANSED’ HIS ‘YIDDISH INSTITUTE’ OF YIDDISH FOR 11 MONTHS OF THE YEAR. . . Sarunas...
View ArticleVilnius ‘Yiddish Studies Professor’ tells ‘Economist’ that Litvaks who Speak...
Dispatched to London by the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry, the state-approved director of the Vilnius Yiddish(-less) Institute bemoaned feeling himself ‘between two Talibans’, referring to the...
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