Lithuania’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 ArticleEast European Far Right Successfully Manipulates Borns Jewish Studies Program...
[updated 10 November 2012] 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...
View ArticleYivo Director Sends New Circular to Staff, Refining Lithuanian Government...
Following up on his 9 September 2011 circular to the staff of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research in New York, the executive director today circulated a new missive, likewise sent to all members of...
View ArticleYivo Director’s Statements on Legal Swastikas in Lithuania, Plus Some Facts
[updated to May 2013] “One of the most important statements in the article is that the swastika is banned by Lithuanian law, something that Katz and others have refused to acknowledge.” — Jonathan...
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”...
O P I N I O N 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...
View ArticleUpdates on the Šakalys Scandal: Central Post Office Website Still Features...
As of today, both Vilnius University and the Central Post Office are still featuring the “historic envelope art” of designer Antanas Šakalys, though neither of the prestigious venues publicly includes...
View ArticleSamples of the Work of a Holocaust-Twisting, Antisemitic, Homophobic Envelope...
The following are among the envelopes designed by Antanas Šakalys who continues to be honored by his (other) works being exhibited at both Vilnius University and the Central Post Office in the...
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 ArticleSwastikas From Latvia in Center of Šiauliai (Shavl), Lithuania, as Police...
Since 2010, when a Lithuanian court proclaimed public swastikas legal and included in its ruling the “historical wisdom” that it only a harmless ancient Baltic symbol, swastikas have proliferated at...
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 ArticleWhen Yiddish is a Prop for Holocaust Revisionism
NEWS, VIEWS, QUIPS AND SHMIPS FROM SUMMER 2016 ◊ Yiddish summer course again features American author Ellen Cassedy as lecturer on Holocaust topics; her 2012 book, part-funded by the Tides Foundation...
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 ArticleKerler’s 9 August Lecture on “Yiddish: A Language in Contact Within and...
VILNIUS—Professor Dov-Ber Kerler, deeply involved in the 2010 purge of Vilnius Yiddish Institute staff (including his own former doctoral supervisor at Oxford) for having disagreed with some Lithuanian...
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 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 ArticleYivo Director Sends New Circular to Staff, Refining Lithuanian Government...
Following up on his 9 September 2011 circular to the staff of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research in New York, the executive director today circulated a new missive, likewise sent to all members of...
View ArticleYivo Director’s Statements on Legal Swastikas in Lithuania, Plus Some Facts
[updated to May 2013] “One of the most important statements in the article is that the swastika is banned by Lithuanian law, something that Katz and others have refused to acknowledge.” — Jonathan...
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”...
O P I N I O N 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...
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