Don't you know who was one of the greatest Yiddish language writers who lived in Lithuania?
And you also don't know who was the pioneer of vegetarian cuisine and had her restaurant in the center of Vilnius?
The answer, Avrom Sutzkever and Fania Lewando, can be discovered in the Lithuanian capital, at the new Museum of Jewish Culture and Identity.
Housed in the upper floors of a former high school, where Hebrew was once taught, it houses Lithuania's rich Jewish cultural heritage, which remains largely unknown.
“Often we talk about
the Holocaust
, the tragic end, but, in this museum, we want to talk about the life of the community.
It is the only one in Lithuania to offer an insight into the history and culture of Lithuanian Jews from very different angles
,” explains Aivaras Poska, in charge of the exhibition.
Throughout the different rooms, literature in Yiddish reveals all its richness, we immerse ourselves in the different Jewish political currents which are…
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