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| Vilnius: Portrait of a City |
| Anthology of photographs and text |
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The book is comprised of photographs of Vilnius from the 19th21st century, and written references to the city, the earliest of which is a letter by Gediminas dated 1323.
Vytautas Augustinas, Arūnas Baltėnas, Alfonsas Budvytis, Jan Bułhak, Tyburcy Chodżko, Józef Czechowicz, Roman Loranc, Alter Kacyzne and many others all photographed the same streets, churches, squares, districts and panoramas. Their works are grouped here according to subject and a certain aesthetic logic.
Alongside them are essays on Vilnius (Tomas Venclova, Czeslaw Milosz); travelogues, beginning in the time of Adam Honor Kirkor; recollections (Lucy S. Dawidowicz, Alfred Doblin, Joseph Frank etc.); travel impressions (Keith Chesterton, Anna Dostoyevskaya etc.); letters (Žemaitė, George Forster etc.); excerpts, and verse, all dedicated to Vilnius.
The foreword includes text in the languages of the inhabitants of Vilnius Lithuanian, Polish, Latin, Yiddish, Russian, and Byelorussian.
Compiled by Isaac Zibuts and Raimondas Paknys
Text chosen and edited by Audra Kairienė
Available in Lithuanian and in English
240 photographs
Hard cover, slipcase
Print 5×5, 250×320 mm, 360 p. |
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ISBN 978-9955-736-31-8 (lithuanian)
ISBN 978-9955-736-32-5 (english)
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| The Jews in Lithuania |
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A book dedicated to the Jewish community resident in Lithuania for over six hundred years. Written by scholars in Lithuania, Byelorussia, Israel, Poland, France and Russia researching the history and culture of Lithuanian Jews.
The publication discusses the less popularised and sometimes originally interpreted manifestations of a Jewish past, and reconstructs a picture of Jewish history. The reader is introduced to the community structure, religious traditions, and specific features of daily life. Included is an important chapter about religious, political, and cultural movements, and an extensive presentation on the broad-based economic activities of the Jews, including the little-known history of Degsnė, a village of Jewish farmers. Also presented is a study of the formation of proper names, various traditions, the development of literature, music, theatre, art, and science.
This book is of value to all those interested in acquiring a deeper knowledge of the history, traditions, culture, and contributions to Lithuania and the world of the Jews of Lithuania. Includes a list of references, and indexes of proper names, place names and items (with definitions). Illustrated and with a map of the ethnic composition of Lithuanian cities and towns at the end of the 19th century.
Compiled by Larisa Lempertienė, Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė
Hard cover, 312 p., 240×170 mm |
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ISBN 978-9955-736-26-4 (lithuanian)
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| They Lived in Vabalninkas |
| 19251941 |
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Album of portraits and group photographs of Jews living in Vabalninkas, as well as images of the town, in the period between the two world wars, from the archives of photographer Juozas Daubaras.
Commissioned by the State Vilna Gaon Jewish Museum
Compiled, foreword by Dalija Epšteinaitė
Designed by Isaac Zibuts
Available in Lithuanian and in English
180 black and white photographs
Hard cover with jacket, 168 p., 230×30 mm |
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ISBN 978-9955-736-24-0 (lithuanian)
ISBN 978-9955-736-25-7 (english)
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| Forest Dwellers of Dzūkija |
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| Arūnas Baltėnas, Ona Drobelienė |
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Dzūkija is a unique ethnographic region of Lithuania located between the Middle Nemunas and Neris rivers. The Dzūkai, inhabitants of this region, are Lithuania's southerners, distinctive not only in their charming dialect, but also in their original customs, folk songs, and way of life.
The territory of the forest Dzūkai in the southernmost part of the country includes the villages of Kapiniškės, Kašėtos, Marcinkonys, Margionys, Musteika, Puvočiai, Zervynos, Žiūrai. It is here that the action of this book takes place: people engaged in their everyday work, resting, celebrating, performing their rituals, telling their stories. The reality captured in these photographs is quickly disappearing as these enlightened people follow one another into eternity. They merit our recognition, albeit in passing...
Hard cover, 224 p., 225×240 mm |
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ISBN 978-9955-736-23-3 (Lithuanian/English)
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| Sounds of Silence |
| Traces of Jewish life in Lithuania |
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A memorial album dedicated to the annihilated Jewish communities of Lithuania. Photographs that capture the images of cemeteries, prayer houses, and other buildings and sites connected to Jewish life, or more precisely
images of what remains many years after the golden age of Jewish Lithuania. Alongside them are the Yiddish and Lithuanian names of towns and villages whose Jewish inhabitants made up a large proportion, perhaps even the majority of the overall population from the 19th and the first half of the 20th century accompanied by a number of telling figures from their history. This book not only evokes the sadness and pain of loss, it reminds us of the people who drew their sap of life from Lithuania, who created and fostered their unique culture, who simply lived, in this land. We hear the din of the eternal silence that shrouds Jewish Lithuania.
Project - Isaac Zibuts
Photos - Raimondas Paknys
Preface author and consultant - Dovid Katz
Available in English, Lithuanian
Hard cover, 204 p., 300×264 mm |
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ISBN 978-9955-736-26-4 (Lithuanian)
ISBN 978-9955-736-27-1 (English)
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