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About<\/h1>\n

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29 – 30 September 2022, 9:00 \u2013 17:00
\nVytautas Magnus University Great Hall,
\nS. Daukanto str. 28, Kaunas
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Kaunas – European Capital of Culture 2022 and the Memory Office programme invite everyone who cares about the city’s history, culture and the future of an open and democratic city to meet at the Litvak Culture Forum on 29-30 September. The Forum will take place over several days and will include discussions with renowned artists, scholars and representatives of the cultural world. We will ask questions: what does it mean to be Litvak today? How can art help us understand a complex history?<\/h4>\n

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\u2022 What does it mean to be a Litvak today?<\/h4>\n

\u2022\u00a0How can art help\u00a0<\/span><\/span>us<\/span><\/span>\u00a0remember?<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

\u2022 What can we learn from history today?<\/span><\/h4>\n

\u2022\u00a0How can living memory teach us the <\/span>universal<\/span> values of respect and openness to others, empathy and love?\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

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The Litvak Cultural Forum is part of the Kaunas 2022 <\/span>CityTelling <\/span>Festival organised by the Memory Office programme. Now in its fourth year, the <\/span>CityTelling <\/span>Festival opens up the forgotten pages of history.<\/span><\/h4>\n

This year, the <\/span>CityTelling <\/span>Festival will last several months. Starting in mid-July, we will awaken the Jewish memory of the city – we will talk about the rich culture that existed in the city, we will remember the forgotten names of Kaunas citizens and the fates of those who lived here. In October, we will look back at the stories of contemporary Kaunas, and end the festival with a reflection on the future at the International Symposium “The Idea of Europe”.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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In a special cultural programme of the Litvak Forum, we are presenting “Kaunas Kantata”, composed by Philip Miller and Jenny Kagan, together with Lithuanian musicians – choirs, ensembles and soloists – which will remind us once again of the city’s complex history and the fate of its people. This encounter with history is more relevant than ever in today’s context.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

A unique programme of academic presentations and presentations of artistic projects will be accompanied by concerts, exhibitions and performances dedicated to Jewish memory. Many of these art projects have been created by <\/span><\/span>world\u2019s<\/span><\/span> Litvaks such as William Kentridge, Philip Miller, Jenny Kagan, Bruce Clarke<\/span><\/span> and others. The discussion<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span> will also include the participation of prominent academics such as Prof. James E. Young, Prof. Antony Polonsky, Prof. Peter Salovey and others.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Litvak culture forum panelists:<\/h1>\n

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Prof. Antony Polonsky<\/span> <\/div>
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Antony Polonsky is Professor Emeritus at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of the Global Education Outreach Project of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw. His most recent work is\u00a0The Jews in Poland and Russia<\/i>\u00a0volume 1, 1350 to 1881; volume 2 1881 to 1914; volume 3, 1914 to 2008 (Oxford, 2010, 2012), published in 2013 in an abridged version\u00a0The Jews in Poland and Russia. A Short History\u00a0<\/i>(2014), which has been translated into French, Polish and Lithuanian. In 1999, he was awarded the Knight\u2019s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and the Officer\u2019s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania.\u00a0<\/i>He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014).<\/h6>\n
Prof. Antony Polonsky:\u00a0<\/b>My talk will be an investigation of the origin and character of the Litvak identity.\u00a0<\/i><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Bruce Clarke<\/span> <\/div>
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Visual artist and photographer, Bruce Clarke was born in London in 1959 to South African parents. His maternal grandparents were from, Lithuania. He now lives in France.<\/h6>\n
Clarke\u2019s work engages with contemporary history, the writing and transmission of this history, and hopes to stimulate thought on the contemporary world and its representations. His work is deeply anchored in a school of critical figuration. He was politically and artistically engaged in the struggle for change in South Africa during the period of apartheid and has been involved in the creation of memorial sites and artworks for the conservation of the memory of the victims of the genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda.<\/h6>\n
Bruce Clarke:\u00a0Taking art out of the ghetto, assuming that different geographical situations are linked by the threads of history, I will talk about how each of my diverse personnel and political experiences nourishes my practice of art related to memory.<\/i><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Daiva \u010cepauskait\u0117<\/span> <\/div>
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Daiva \u010cepauskait\u0117 – poet, playwright, publisher. Member of the Lithuanian Writers’ Union since 1998. She writes poetry, plays, stagings, and librettos for children and adults. In 2017, she founded the publishing house “\u017dalias kalnas” in Kaunas, which publishes books for children. In 2011, Daiva \u010cepauskait\u0117 was named\u00a0Person of Tolerance\u00a0<\/i>of the\u00a0Year<\/i>\u00a0by the Sugihara Foundation “Diplomats for Life” for her play “Pit (I’ve Forgotten You)”. She works as a dramaturge at the National Kaunas Drama Theatre.<\/h6>\n
Chlebinskait\u0117 and \u010cepauskait\u0117 will tell us about the story behind the translation of Leah Goldberg’s children’s book “Rented Apartment” and the creation of the exclusive design.\u00a0<\/i><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Prof. James E. Young<\/span> <\/div>
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James E. Young is a Distinguished University Professor of English and Judaic Studies Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Founding Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at UMass Amherst. Professor Young is the author of\u00a0Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust<\/i>\u00a0(Indiana University Press, 1988),\u00a0The Texture of Memory<\/i>\u00a0(Yale University Press, 1993), which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994,\u00a0At Memory’s Edge: After-images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture<\/i>\u00a0(Yale University Press, 2000), and\u00a0The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces Between<\/i>\u00a0(University of Massachusetts Press, 2016), which won the National Council for Public History Book Award for 2017. He was also the Guest Curator of an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York City, entitled “The Art of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History” (March – August 1994, with venues in Berlin and Munich, September 1994 – June 1995) and was the editor of\u00a0The Art of Memory\u00a0<\/i>(Prestel Verlag, 1994), the exhibition catalogue for this show.<\/h6>\n
In 1997, Professor Young was appointed by the Berlin Senate to the five-member\u00a0Findungskommission<\/i>\u00a0for Germany’s national “Memorial to Europe’s Murdered Jews,” which selected Peter Eisenman\u2019s design, finished and dedicated in May 2005. More recently, he was appointed to the jury for the \u201cNational 9\/11 Memorial\u201d design competition, won by Michael Arad and Peter Walker in 2004 and opened on September 11th, 2011.<\/h6>\n
Prof. James E. Young:\u00a0<\/b>In \u201cHistory, Memory, and Monuments,\u201d I will reflect on what we ask our monuments to do, how they succeed, and how they fail.<\/i><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Jyll Bradley<\/span> <\/div>
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Jyll Bradley is a UK-based artist working with sculpture, drawings, film, and text. She studied at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and has exhibited internationally for over 30 years. Jyll is interested in the idea of sculpture as a \u2018gathering place’ for people, stories, and ideas. She recently presented her sculpture project \u2018Threshold\u2019 – based on the Jewish ritual object the mezuzah \u2013 as part of Kaunas 2022 City Telling Festival.<\/h6>\n
Jyll Bradley:\u00a0I will talk of sculpture as a gathering place. Gathering round the mezuzah \u2013 one of the smallest sculptures in the world.\u00a0<\/i><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Katharina von Schnurbein<\/span> <\/div>
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Katharina von Schnurbein was appointed the first European Commission Coordinator on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life in December 2015. Her mandate includes liaising closely with Jewish communities, Member States, EU institutions, and international organizations as well as proposing and implementing policy to address antisemitism, foster Jewish life, and ensure Holocaust remembrance.<\/h6>\n
Prior, she worked for five years as part of the advisory team to European Commission President Jos\u00e9 Manuel Barroso, responsible for the dialogue with churches, religions, and non-confessional organizations as well as civil society organizations and think tanks in Germany. Katharina started working for the Commission in 2002, serving as the press officer for the EU Delegation in Prague. With enlargement in 2004, she moved to Brussels as spokesperson on employment, social affairs, and equal opportunities for the Czech EU Commissioner Vladimir \u0160pidla.<\/h6>\n
Katharina received the B\u2019nai B\u2019rith Europe\u2019s Human Rights Prize in 2018 and the Marietta and Friedrich Torberg medal of the Jewish Community in Vienna in 2021.<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Faina Kukliansky<\/span> <\/div>
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Prof. Leonidas Melnikas<\/span> <\/div>
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Pianist, organist, musicologist, head of the department of the LMTA<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Lina \u0160lipavi\u010di\u016bt\u0117-\u010cerniauskien\u0117<\/span> <\/div>
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Lina \u0160lipavi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 is an artist monumentalist whose work ranges from frescoes created in sacred spaces to street artworks exploring themes of memory and social exclusion.<\/h6>\n
The street art project “Walls Remember\u201d not only decorates the walls of the Old Town of Vilnius but has also expanded to other Lithuanian cities.<\/h6>\n
Lina is interested in the possibilities of transformation of space: how a space\/place with its history influences the work that appears there and vice versa \u2013 how the work can change the space and affect the person in it.<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Marilia Destot<\/span> <\/div>
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Marilia Destot is a French photographer, living and working in New York. Her photography explores the passage of time and the subjective and poetic process of memory. Her work is mainly rooted in her personal and familial history, is often developed in chapters, over time, places, or characters, and is linked to an intimate and contemplative experience of Life and Nature. Her practice uses the photo medium through a mix of visual or narrative experimentations, open forms where the subject reveals itself in fragments, echoes, and illusions, free to float and resonate with the viewer\u2019s imagination and intimate world.<\/h6>\n
In 2018, begins her\u00a0Journey,\u00a0<\/i>a poetic exploration of her family’s Litvak roots, developed during a residency with the Kaunas Photography Gallery in 2019, and shown at the Emmanuel Levinas Center as part of the CityTelling Festival, Kaunas 2022.<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Martynas U\u017epelkis<\/span> <\/div>
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Heritage Expert of the Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Michael Shubitz<\/span> <\/div>
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Michael Shubitz was born in Israel. His parents survived the Holocaust in Lithuania. Both of them were from Lithuania. Both were Kaunasians.<\/h6>\n
Shubitz is a cameraman and photographer. In Kaunas, he is presenting his photography project “Back to Kaunas”. He has captured the lives of 12 survivors from Kaunas. In his project he tries to draw a line between Jewish life in Kaunas before the war and now.<\/h6>\n
Michael Shubitz:\u00a0In my presentation, I will talk about the ways of imagining the past, having no photos to tell the story. A phenomenon that is common for a whole generation.<\/i><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Mindaugas Luko\u0161aitis<\/span> <\/div>
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M. Luko\u0161aitis (born in 1980 in \u0160iauliai) is a sculptor, and draughtsman, and has been participating in exhibitions since 1997. He is perhaps most famous for his drawing cycles “Resistance” (or Resistance) and “Jews. My Story”, which masterfully weave history and imagination. In both cycles, the artist’s imagination creates reconstructions of possible situations, recreating traumatic moments of historical reality. The artist’s works have been acquired by Lithuanian and international museums.<\/h6>\n
Mindaugas Luko\u0161aitis:\u00a0in the forum, I will talk about the reasons why memory is important to me as a creator.<\/i><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Paulina Pukyt\u0117<\/span> <\/div>
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Paulina Pukyt\u0117 is an artist, writer, playwright, exhibition curator, and cultural critic. In 2017, she curated the 11th Kaunas Biennial\u00a0There and Not There: (Im)possibility of a Monument<\/i>\u00a0in the public spaces of the city, dedicated to rethinking past, present, and future monuments in the paradigm of presence and absence. In the Forum she will present the aims, objectives, and results of this memorable project and talk about the relationship between the artist, the monument, and the viewer.<\/h6>\n
Paulina Pukyt\u0117: At the Forum I will present the 11th Kaunas Biennial\u00a0There and Not There: (Im)possibility of a Monument<\/i>. I will talk about the relationship between the artist, the monument, and the viewer.<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Dr. Robert Kusek<\/span> <\/div>
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Jagiellonian University Professor at the Department of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, Jagiellonian University in Krak\u00f3w. His research interests include life writing genres (particularly memoirs), transnationalism, dissonant heritage, as well as a comparative approach to literary studies. He is the author of two monographs and several dozen articles published in books, academic journals, and magazines, as well as co-editor of fourteen volumes of articles. He was a researcher in several Polish and international projects \u2013 currently he is a principal investigator in the National Science Centre funded project entitled \u201c(Un)accidental Tourists: Polish Literature and Visual Culture in South Africa in the 20th and 21st Centuries.\u201d<\/h6>\n
Dr. Kusek and\u00a0Dr.Wojciech Szyma\u0144ski:<\/b>\u00a0This presentation aims to discuss various acts and strategies of addressing Lithuanian and, largely, Central European heritage in selected works of South African writers and artists: William Kentridge, as well as the likes of Nadine Gordimer, Dan Jacobson, and Rose Zwi. We will try to identify what kind of influence Central Europe \u2013 and specifically Lithuania \u2013 have exerted on South African cultural production and how the above-mentioned artists have responded to its often burdensome memory.<\/i><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Dr. Ruth Reches<\/span> <\/div>
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Director of the Vilnius Sholom Aleichem ORT Gymnasium<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Prof. Peter Salovey<\/span> <\/div>
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Peter Salovey is the twenty-third president of Yale University and the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology. Since becoming president in July 2013, he has led the development of new programs and facilities, strengthened partnerships worldwide, increased access to a Yale College education, and enhanced interdisciplinary collaboration and entrepreneurial opportunity for faculty and students. His prior leadership roles at Yale include serving as chair of the Department of Psychology, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, dean of Yale College, and provost.<\/h6>\n
After completing his undergraduate education at Stanford University, he earned a Ph.D. (psychology) at Yale in 1986 and then was appointed to the faculty. He has authored or edited over a dozen books translated into eleven languages and published hundreds of journal articles and essays in social psychology. He has studied the connections among health beliefs, health communication, and health behavior, especially those relevant to the prevention of cancer and HIV\/AIDS. He also conducted research on the psychological significance and function of human moods and emotions. With John D. Mayer, he developed a broad framework called \u201cemotional intelligence.\u201d In addition to teaching and mentoring scores of graduate students, President Salovey has won both the William Clyde DeVane Medal for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching in Yale College and the Lex Hixon \u201963 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the social sciences. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine.<\/h6>\n
Prof. Peter Salovey:\u00a0Through my ancestry and understanding of the historical approach to the Jewish practice of those with roots in Lithuania, I reflect on the multidimensional nature of Litvak identity.<\/i><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Simas Levinas<\/span> <\/div>
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Chairman of Vilnius Jewish Religious Community<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Sigut\u0117 Chlebinskait\u0117<\/span> <\/div>
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Sigut\u0117 Chlebinskait\u0117 writes books, and curates exhibitions dedicated to book culture and the accompanying education. In 2002, she founded the volunteer community “Book Country”. She has won awards in book art competitions in Lithuania and the Baltic States, the USA, France, Great Britain, and Japan, and was awarded the Culture and Art Prize of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania (2017). She has written books by Icchok Ruda\u0161evski, Matilda Olkinait\u0117, Avram Suckever, Moishe Vorobeitchik-Mo\u00ef Ver, Beba Epstein, Moishe Kulbak, Moishe Kulbak, and Liya Goldberg, and has tried to speak anew about the destroyed world of the Litvaks and their talents and their manuscript legacy.<\/h6>\n
Chlebinskait\u0117 and \u010cepauskait\u0117 will tell us about the story behind the translation of Leah Goldberg’s children’s book “Rented Apartment” and the creation of the exclusive design.\u00a0<\/i><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Prof. Tsvia Walden<\/span> <\/div>
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Prof. Tsvia Walden from Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, is a psycholinguist\u00a0and a software and T.V. program designer, consultant, and presenter of TV series about the Hebrew Language, author of numerous publications on its renewal as a mother tongue.<\/h6>\n
Prof. Tsvia Walden:\u00a0I will discuss the enormous contribution of Litvaks to modern Hebrew. I will raise questions: How many homelands may a person have? How many mother tongues may he speak? And in case this person is a Litvak \u2013 is it still the same answer?<\/i><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Viktorija Siderait\u0117 Alon<\/span> <\/div>
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Architect, member of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, member of the creative group JUDVI&A\u0160<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Dr. Wojciech Szyma\u0144ski<\/span> <\/div>
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Art historian and art critic, independent curator. Assistant professor at the Institute of Art History, University of Warsaw, author of several dozen articles, editor and author of monographs and exhibition catalogs, principal investigator and researcher in several Polish and international scientific projects; since 2019 he has been editor-in-chief of\u00a0\u201c<\/i>Ikonotheka\u201d journal. Currently, he is a co-curator of Ma\u0142gorzata Mirga-Tas\u2019s exhibition\u00a0Re-enchanting the World<\/i>\u00a0in the Polish Pavilion at the 59th Biennale Arte in Venice. He is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). He lives in Krakow.<\/h6>\n
Dr. Kusek and\u00a0Dr.Wojciech Szyma\u0144ski:<\/b>\u00a0This presentation aims to discuss various acts and strategies of addressing Lithuanian and, largely, Central European heritage in selected works of South African writers and artists: William Kentridge, as well as the likes of Nadine Gordimer, Dan Jacobson, and Rose Zwi. We will try to identify what kind of influence Central Europe \u2013 _and specifically Lithuania \u2013 _have exerted on South African cultural production and how the above-mentioned artists have responded to its often burdensome memory.<\/i><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Donatas Puslys<\/span> <\/div>
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Host of the LRT Klasika radio program “Small Europe Talks”, Head of the Media and Democracy Programme at the Vilnius Institute for Policy Analysis, teacher of ethics at the Queen Martha School, and alumnus of the “I Choose to Teach” program. He is a passionate researcher of Lithuania’s multicultural past and was named the 2014 Person of the Year for Tolerance for promoting dialogue between different cultures and religions. A man who will always be grateful to the brilliant Litvak writer Grigory Kanovich for showing us the cloud called Lithuania.<\/h6>\n
Donatas Puslys will moderate a discussion with authors of Lithuanian books – Sigute Chlebinskaite, Daiva \u010cepauskaite, and Aneta Anra.<\/i><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Aneta Anra<\/span> <\/div>
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Aneta Anra is a novelist and playwright. She is the author of three novels: Niki: dvigubas portretas (Niki: A Double Portrait), published by Tyto Alba in 2019; Paleistuv\u0117s, arba Meil\u0117 pagal Niurnbergo mergel\u0119 (Iron Maidens, or Love According to the Virgin of Nuremberg) published by Kitos knygos in 2016, with illustrations by Jolanta Kyzikait\u0117; and Katinas Temz\u0117je (The Cat in the Thames), published by Versus Aureus in 2008; the plays Niurnbergo mergel\u0117 (The Virgin of Nuremberg; 2013, Naujoji Romuva, No. 3), Katinas Temz\u0117je (The Cat in the Thames) and Bestija \u017eydrom akim (The Beast with Blue Eyes); and the documentary novel Jehudit. Pasaulis gal\u0117t\u0173 b\u016bti toks gra\u017eus (Jehudit. How Beautiful the World Could Be, released in Lithuanian by Odil\u0117 publishers in 2021). Her plays Katinas Temz\u0117je and Bestija \u017eydrom akim were staged at the State Youth Theatre (Vilnius) in 2008 and 2010, respectively.<\/h6>\n
Her book “Jehudit: How Beautiful the World Could Be” was awarded the Grigory Kanovich Republican Prize and is currently being translated into English, Polish and French.<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Prof. Violeta Davoli\u016bt\u0117<\/span> <\/div>
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Prof. Violeta Davoli\u016bt\u0117, VU TSPMI researcher on the politics of memory in East Central Europe.<\/h6>\n
Prof. Violeta Davoli\u016bt\u0117 will moderate a discussion on the role of art in understanding complex history.<\/i><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Dr. Daiva Price<\/span> <\/div>
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Daiva (Citvarien\u0117) Price – art curator, researcher, and cultural producer. She is also a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts of Vytautas Magnus University, with an interest in memory and museum studies. Dr. Price is the creator of several memory projects: the collective memory project “Sites of Memory” (www.atmintiesvietos.lt<\/a>), the audio guide to historical Kaunas “Spirit Guide to the Old Kaunas” and many others.<\/h6>\n
Since 2014, Dr. Price has been one of the members of the creative team preparing the Kaunas European Capital of Culture 2022 bid and since 2017 she has been working for the Kaunas 2022 team. She was Curator of the Audience Development Programme for Cultural Operators 2017 – 2019. The main program she curates for Kaunas 2022 is Memory Office, which aims to break down the city’s stereotypes, stimulate a conscious interest in the city’s complex history, and awaken the city’s multiethnic memory.<\/h6>\n
Dr. Daiva Price:\u00a0The path of the Memory Office began in 2017. What has changed in these five years? What memories have been awakened by the Memory Office?<\/i><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ back_color=”color-lxmt” overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”138879″ back_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”150869″]<\/p>\n

Litvak culture forum programme:<\/h1>\n

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SEPTEMBER 29, THURSDAY<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span>WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE LITVAK?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania Ingrida \u0160imonyt\u0117
\nAmbassador of the State of Israel Hadas Wittenberg Silverstein
\nPresident of the Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community Faina Kukliansky
\nKaunas 2022 CEO Dr. Virginija Vitkien\u0117
\nCurator of the Kaunas 2022 programme “Memory Office” Dr. Daiva Price<\/h6>\n

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Composer\u00a0 <\/span>\u0160enderovas said about this work: “Almost 30 years ago, when I was in Jerusalem for the first time, in the Hadassah Medical Centre, in the special hall (synagogue), I saw unusually bright colours on the floor. It was a reflection of Marc Chagall’s twelve stained-glass windows mounted high up on the ceiling. They were full of symbols – triangles and circles, imprints of birds, fish, beasts, menorahs and Hebrew letters. A kind of Babylon. However, Shagal’s main source of inspiration is the Bible and his own experience. The image kept changing as the sun set.\u00a0 <\/span>My work is also full of symbols – the clarinet recalls the former Jewish life in Europe, the percussion and the string quartet are like an allusion to the Biblical world.” \u00a0<\/span><\/h6>\n
\u0160enderovas’ work will be performed by the Chordos<\/i> String Quartet, clarinetist Algirdas \u017di\u016bra and percussionist Arkadijus Gotesmanas. \u0160enderovas and Gotesmanas have a long personal creative friendship: especially for this work, Gotesmanas has made a stand that can hold the sounding pieces of stained glass. Author of the project A.Gotesmanas.<\/h6>\n

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Katharina von Schnurbein
\nEuropean Commission Coordinator on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life<\/b><\/h4>\n
Katharina von Schnurbein was appointed the first European Commission Coordinator on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life in December 2015. Her mandate includes liaising closely with Jewish communities, Member States, EU institutions, and international organizations as well as proposing and implementing policy to address antisemitism, foster Jewish life, and ensure Holocaust remembrance.<\/h6>\n
Prior, she worked for five years as part of the advisory team to European Commission President Jos\u00e9 Manuel Barroso, responsible for the dialogue with churches, religions, and non-confessional organizations as well as civil society organizations and think tanks in Germany. Katharina started working for the Commission in 2002, serving as the press officer for the EU Delegation in Prague. With enlargement in 2004, she moved to Brussels as spokesperson on employment, social affairs, and equal opportunities for the Czech EU Commissioner Vladimir \u0160pidla.<\/h6>\n
Katharina received the B\u2019nai B\u2019rith Europe\u2019s Human Rights Prize in 2018 and the Marietta and Friedrich Torberg medal of the Jewish Community in Vienna in 2021.<\/h6>\n

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Prof. Antony Polonsky (RSA\/UK)<\/h4>\n

Antony Polonsky is Professor Emeritus at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of the Global Education Outreach Project of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw. His most recent work is\u00a0The Jews in Poland and Russia<\/i>\u00a0volume 1, 1350 to 1881; volume 2 1881 to 1914; volume 3, 1914 to 2008 (Oxford, 2010, 2012), published in 2013 in an abridged version\u00a0The Jews in Poland and Russia. A Short History\u00a0<\/i>(2014), which has been translated into French, Polish and Lithuanian. In 1999, he was awarded the Knight\u2019s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and the Officer\u2019s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania.\u00a0<\/i>He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014).<\/h6>\n
Prof. Antony Polonsky:\u00a0<\/b>My talk will be an investigation of the origin and character of the Litvak identity.\u00a0<\/i><\/h6>\n

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Prof. Peter Salovey (US)<\/h4>\n

Peter Salovey is the twenty-third president of Yale University and the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology. Since becoming president in July 2013, he has led the development of new programs and facilities, strengthened partnerships worldwide, increased access to a Yale College education, and enhanced interdisciplinary collaboration and entrepreneurial opportunity for faculty and students. His prior leadership roles at Yale include serving as chair of the Department of Psychology, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, dean of Yale College, and provost.<\/h6>\n
After completing his undergraduate education at Stanford University, he earned a Ph.D. (psychology) at Yale in 1986 and then was appointed to the faculty. He has authored or edited over a dozen books translated into eleven languages and published hundreds of journal articles and essays in social psychology. He has studied the connections among health beliefs, health communication, and health behavior, especially those relevant to the prevention of cancer and HIV\/AIDS. He also conducted research on the psychological significance and function of human moods and emotions. With John D. Mayer, he developed a broad framework called \u201cemotional intelligence.\u201d In addition to teaching and mentoring scores of graduate students, President Salovey has won both the William Clyde DeVane Medal for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching in Yale College and the Lex Hixon \u201963 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the social sciences. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine.<\/h6>\n
Prof. Peter Salovey:\u00a0Through my ancestry and understanding of the historical approach to the Jewish practice of those with roots in Lithuania, I reflect on the multidimensional nature of Litvak identity.<\/i><\/h6>\n

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Prof. Robert Kusek (PL)<\/h4>\n

Jagiellonian University Professor at the Department of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, Jagiellonian University in Krak\u00f3w. His research interests include life writing genres (particularly memoirs), transnationalism, dissonant heritage, as well as a comparative approach to literary studies. He is the author of two monographs and several dozen articles published in books, academic journals, and magazines, as well as co-editor of fourteen volumes of articles. He was a researcher in several Polish and international projects \u2013 currently he is a principal investigator in the National Science Centre funded project entitled \u201c(Un)accidental Tourists: Polish Literature and Visual Culture in South Africa in the 20th and 21st Centuries.\u201d<\/h6>\n

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Dr. Wojciech Szyma\u0144ski (PL)<\/h4>\n

Art historian and art critic, independent curator. Assistant professor at the Institute of Art History, University of Warsaw, author of several dozen articles, editor and author of monographs and exhibition catalogs, principal investigator and researcher in several Polish and international scientific projects; since 2019 he has been editor-in-chief of\u00a0\u201c<\/i>Ikonotheka\u201d journal. Currently, he is a co-curator of Ma\u0142gorzata Mirga-Tas\u2019s exhibition\u00a0Re-enchanting the World<\/i>\u00a0in the Polish Pavilion at the 59th Biennale Arte in Venice. He is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). He lives in Krakow.<\/h6>\n

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Dr. Kusek and\u00a0Dr.Wojciech Szyma\u0144ski:<\/b>\u00a0This presentation aims to discuss various acts and strategies of addressing Lithuanian and, largely, Central European heritage in selected works of South African writers and artists: William Kentridge, as well as the likes of Nadine Gordimer, Dan Jacobson, and Rose Zwi. We will try to identify what kind of influence Central Europe \u2013 _and specifically Lithuania \u2013 _have exerted on South African cultural production and how the above-mentioned artists have responded to its often burdensome memory.<\/i><\/h6>\n

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Prof. Tsvia Walden (IL)<\/h4>\n

Prof. Tsvia Walden from Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, is a psycholinguist\u00a0and a software and T.V. program designer, consultant, and presenter of TV series about the Hebrew Language, author of numerous publications on its renewal as a mother tongue.<\/h6>\n
Prof. Tsvia Walden:\u00a0I will discuss the enormous contribution of Litvaks to modern Hebrew. I will raise questions: How many homelands may a person have? How many mother tongues may he speak? And in case this person is a Litvak \u2013 is it still the same answer?<\/i><\/h6>\n

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Artist Marilia Destot (USA).<\/h4>\n

Marilia Destot is a French photographer, living and working in New York. Her photography explores the passage of time and the subjective and poetic process of memory. Her work is mainly rooted in her personal and familial history, is often developed in chapters, over time, places, or characters, and is linked to an intimate and contemplative experience of Life and Nature. Her practice uses the photo medium through a mix of visual or narrative experimentations, open forms where the subject reveals itself in fragments, echoes, and illusions, free to float and resonate with the viewer\u2019s imagination and intimate world.<\/h6>\n
In 2018, begins her\u00a0Journey,\u00a0<\/i>a poetic exploration of her family’s Litvak roots, developed during a residency with the Kaunas Photography Gallery in 2019, and shown at the Emmanuel Levinas Center as part of the CityTelling Festival, Kaunas 2022.<\/h6>\n

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The discussion is organized by the Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community<\/h6>\n

Participants:<\/h4>\n

Martynas U\u017epelkis \u2013 heritage Expert of the Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community<\/h6>\n
Viktorija Siderait\u0117 Alon \u2013 architect, member of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, member of the creative group JUDVI&A\u0160<\/h6>\n
Simas Levinas \u2013 chairman of Vilnius Jewish Religious Community<\/h6>\n
Dr. Ruth Reches \u2013 director of the Vilnius Sholom Aleichem ORT Gymnasium<\/h6>\n
Prof. Leonidas Melnikas \u2013 pianist, organist, musicologist, head of the department of the LMTA<\/h6>\n

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Pianist A. Paley has been interested in klezmer music for many years. This is the music which was played at weddings and festivals. Over time, it developed into a separate genre of music. Although it seems simple, this music is not easy to play, and improvisation is very important. The musicians will remind us of the life of the Jews of Vilnius, which is no longer…<\/h6>\n

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Authors of the exhibition Roza Litay, Lia Shiboleth and Dr Carol Hoffman (IL). Organised by the Vilnius Gaon Museum of Jewish History.\u00a0<\/span><\/h6>\n

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Moderator:<\/h4>\n

Prof. A. Polonsky (RSA\/UK) \u2013\u00a0Professor Emeritus at Brandeis University, author of numerous monographs<\/h6>\n

Panelists:<\/h4>\n

Prof. Peter Salovey (US) \u2013 president and Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology, Yale University<\/h6>\n
Prof. Robert Kusek (PL) \u2013 Jagiellonian University Professor<\/h6>\n
Prof. Tsvia Walden (IL) \u2013 psycholinguist, Professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev<\/h6>\n
Faina Kukliansky (LT) \u2013 chairwoman of Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community<\/h6>\n

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SEPTEMBER 30, FRIDAY
\n<\/span><\/b>ART HELPS TO UNDERSTAND HISTORY, ART HELPS TO REMEMBER<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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\u00a0Prof. James E. Young (US)<\/h4>\n

James E. Young is a Distinguished University Professor of English and Judaic Studies Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Founding Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at UMass Amherst. Professor Young is the author of\u00a0Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust<\/i>\u00a0(Indiana University Press, 1988),\u00a0The Texture of Memory<\/i>\u00a0(Yale University Press, 1993), which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994,\u00a0At Memory’s Edge: After-images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture<\/i>\u00a0(Yale University Press, 2000), and\u00a0The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces Between<\/i>\u00a0(University of Massachusetts Press, 2016), which won the National Council for Public History Book Award for 2017. He was also the Guest Curator of an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York City, entitled “The Art of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History” (March – August 1994, with venues in Berlin and Munich, September 1994 – June 1995) and was the editor of\u00a0The Art of Memory\u00a0<\/i>(Prestel Verlag, 1994), the exhibition catalogue for this show.<\/h6>\n
In 1997, Professor Young was appointed by the Berlin Senate to the five-member\u00a0Findungskommission<\/i>\u00a0for Germany’s national “Memorial to Europe’s Murdered Jews,” which selected Peter Eisenman\u2019s design, finished and dedicated in May 2005. More recently, he was appointed to the jury for the \u201cNational 9\/11 Memorial\u201d design competition, won by Michael Arad and Peter Walker in 2004 and opened on September 11th, 2011.<\/h6>\n
Prof. James E. Young:\u00a0<\/b>In \u201cHistory, Memory, and Monuments,\u201d I will reflect on what we ask our monuments to do, how they succeed, and how they fail.<\/i><\/h6>\n

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Michael Shubitz (IL)<\/h4>\n

Michael Shubitz was born in Israel. His parents survived the Holocaust in Lithuania. Both of them were from Lithuania. Both were Kaunasians.<\/h6>\n
Shubitz is a cameraman and photographer. In Kaunas, he is presenting his photography project “Back to Kaunas”. He has captured the lives of 12 survivors from Kaunas. In his project he tries to draw a line between Jewish life in Kaunas before the war and now.<\/h6>\n
Michael Shubitz:\u00a0In my presentation, I will talk about the ways of imagining the past, having no photos to tell the story. A phenomenon that is common for a whole generation.<\/i><\/h6>\n

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Bruce Clarke (FR)<\/h4>\n

Visual artist and photographer, Bruce Clarke was born in London in 1959 to South African parents. His maternal grandparents were from, Lithuania. He now lives in France.<\/h6>\n
Clarke\u2019s work engages with contemporary history, the writing and transmission of this history, and hopes to stimulate thought on the contemporary world and its representations. His work is deeply anchored in a school of critical figuration. He was politically and artistically engaged in the struggle for change in South Africa during the period of apartheid and has been involved in the creation of memorial sites and artworks for the conservation of the memory of the victims of the genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda.<\/h6>\n
Bruce Clarke:\u00a0Taking art out of the ghetto, assuming that different geographical situations are linked by the threads of history, I will talk about how each of my diverse personnel and political experiences nourishes my practice of art related to memory.<\/i><\/h6>\n

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Jyll Bradley is a UK-based artist working with sculpture, drawings, film, and text. She studied at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and has exhibited internationally for over 30 years. Jyll is interested in the idea of sculpture as a \u2018gathering place’ for people, stories, and ideas. She recently presented her sculpture project \u2018Threshold\u2019 – based on the Jewish ritual object the mezuzah \u2013 as part of Kaunas 2022 City Telling Festival.<\/h6>\n
Jyll Bradley:\u00a0I will talk of sculpture as a gathering place. Gathering round the mezuzah \u2013 one of the smallest sculptures in the world.\u00a0<\/i><\/h6>\n

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Paulina Pukyt\u0117 (LT\/UK)<\/h4>\n

Paulina Pukyt\u0117 is an artist, writer, playwright, exhibition curator, and cultural critic. In 2017, she curated the 11th Kaunas Biennial\u00a0There and Not There: (Im)possibility of a Monument<\/i>\u00a0in the public spaces of the city, dedicated to rethinking past, present, and future monuments in the paradigm of presence and absence. In the Forum she will present the aims, objectives, and results of this memorable project and talk about the relationship between the artist, the monument, and the viewer.<\/h6>\n
Paulina Pukyt\u0117: At the Forum I will present the 11th Kaunas Biennial\u00a0There and Not There: (Im)possibility of a Monument<\/i>. I will talk about the relationship between the artist, the monument, and the viewer.<\/h6>\n

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Dr. Daiva Price (LT)<\/h4>\n

Daiva (Citvarien\u0117) Price – art curator, researcher, and cultural producer. She is also a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts of Vytautas Magnus University, with an interest in memory and museum studies. Dr. Price is the creator of several memory projects: the collective memory project “Sites of Memory” (www.atmintiesvietos.lt<\/a>), the audio guide to historical Kaunas “Spirit Guide to the Old Kaunas” and many others.<\/h6>\n
Since 2014, Dr. Price has been one of the members of the creative team preparing the Kaunas European Capital of Culture 2022 bid and since 2017 she has been working for the Kaunas 2022 team. She was Curator of the Audience Development Programme for Cultural Operators 2017 – 2019. The main program she curates for Kaunas 2022 is Memory Office, which aims to break down the city’s stereotypes, stimulate a conscious interest in the city’s complex history, and awaken the city’s multiethnic memory.<\/h6>\n
Dr. Daiva Price:\u00a0The path of the Memory Office began in 2017. What has changed in these five years? What memories have been awakened by the Memory Office?<\/i><\/h6>\n

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Moderator:<\/h4>\n

Prof. Violeta Davoli\u016bt\u0117 (LT) \u2013\u00a0VU TSPMI researcher on the politics of memory in East Central Europe<\/h6>\n

Panelists:<\/h4>\n

Paulina Pukyt\u0117\u00a0(LT\/JK) \u2013 artist, writer, art curator<\/h6>\n
Bruce Clarke (FR) \u2013 artist, author of the ECCE HOMO project in Kaunas IX Fort<\/h6>\n
Dr. Daiva Price \u2013 art historian, curator of Kaunas 2022 programme \u201cMemory Office\u201d<\/h6>\n

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Writer, publisher Daiva \u010cepauskait\u0117 (LT)<\/h4>\n

Daiva \u010cepauskait\u0117 – poet, playwright, publisher. Member of the Lithuanian Writers’ Union since 1998. She writes poetry, plays, stagings, and librettos for children and adults. In 2017, she founded the publishing house “\u017dalias kalnas” in Kaunas, which publishes books for children. In 2011, Daiva \u010cepauskait\u0117 was named\u00a0Person of Tolerance\u00a0<\/i>of the\u00a0Year<\/i>\u00a0by the Sugihara Foundation “Diplomats for Life” for her play “Pit (I’ve Forgotten You)”. She works as a dramaturge at the National Kaunas Drama Theatre.<\/h6>\n

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Artist Sigut\u0117 Chlebinskait\u0117 (LT)<\/h4>\n

Sigut\u0117 Chlebinskait\u0117 writes books, and curates exhibitions dedicated to book culture and the accompanying education. In 2002, she founded the volunteer community “Book Country”. She has won awards in book art competitions in Lithuania and the Baltic States, the USA, France, Great Britain, and Japan, and was awarded the Culture and Art Prize of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania (2017). She has written books by Icchok Ruda\u0161evski, Matilda Olkinait\u0117, Avram Suckever, Moishe Vorobeitchik-Mo\u00ef Ver, Beba Epstein, Moishe Kulbak, Moishe Kulbak, and Liya Goldberg, and has tried to speak anew about the destroyed world of the Litvaks and their talents and their manuscript legacy.<\/h6>\n
Chlebinskait\u0117 and \u010cepauskait\u0117 will tell us about the story behind the translation of Leah Goldberg’s children’s book “Rented Apartment” and the creation of the exclusive design.\u00a0<\/i><\/h6>\n

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Artist Mindaugas Luko\u0161aitis (LT)<\/h4>\n

M. Luko\u0161aitis (born in 1980 in \u0160iauliai) is a sculptor, and draughtsman, and has been participating in exhibitions since 1997. He is perhaps most famous for his drawing cycles “Resistance” (or Resistance) and “Jews. My Story”, which masterfully weave history and imagination. In both cycles, the artist’s imagination creates reconstructions of possible situations, recreating traumatic moments of historical reality. The artist’s works have been acquired by Lithuanian and international museums.<\/h6>\n
Mindaugas Luko\u0161aitis:\u00a0in the forum, I will talk about the reasons why memory is important to me as a creator.<\/i><\/h6>\n

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Artist Lina \u0160lipavi\u010di\u016bt\u0117-\u010cerniauskien\u0117 (LT)<\/h4>\n

Lina \u0160lipavi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 is an artist monumentalist whose work ranges from frescoes created in sacred spaces to street artworks exploring themes of memory and social exclusion.<\/h6>\n
The street art project “Walls Remember\u201d not only decorates the walls of the Old Town of Vilnius but has also expanded to other Lithuanian cities.<\/h6>\n
Lina is interested in the possibilities of transformation of space: how a space\/place with its history influences the work that appears there and vice versa \u2013 how the work can change the space and affect the person in it.<\/h6>\n

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Writer Aneta Anra (LT)<\/h4>\n

Aneta Anra is a novelist and playwright. She is the author of three novels: Niki: dvigubas portretas (Niki: A Double Portrait), published by Tyto Alba in 2019; Paleistuv\u0117s, arba Meil\u0117 pagal Niurnbergo mergel\u0119 (Iron Maidens, or Love According to the Virgin of Nuremberg) published by Kitos knygos in 2016, with illustrations by Jolanta Kyzikait\u0117; and Katinas Temz\u0117je (The Cat in the Thames), published by Versus Aureus in 2008; the plays Niurnbergo mergel\u0117 (The Virgin of Nuremberg; 2013, Naujoji Romuva, No. 3), Katinas Temz\u0117je (The Cat in the Thames) and Bestija \u017eydrom akim (The Beast with Blue Eyes); and the documentary novel Jehudit. Pasaulis gal\u0117t\u0173 b\u016bti toks gra\u017eus (Jehudit. How Beautiful the World Could Be, released in Lithuanian by Odil\u0117 publishers in 2021). Her plays Katinas Temz\u0117je and Bestija \u017eydrom akim were staged at the State Youth Theatre (Vilnius) in 2008 and 2010, respectively.<\/h6>\n
Her book “Jehudit: How Beautiful the World Could Be” was awarded the Grigory Kanovich Republican Prize and is currently being translated into English, Polish and French.<\/h6>\n

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Moderator:<\/h4>\n

Donatas Puslys (LT) \u2013 publicist<\/h6>\n

Panelists:<\/h4>\n

Daiva \u010cepauskait\u0117 (LT) \u2013 the publisher of the book, writer<\/h6>\n
Sigut\u0117 Chlebinskait\u0117 (LT) \u2013 the artist of the book \u201cRented Apartment\u201d<\/h6>\n
Aneta Anra (LT) \u2013 the writer, author of the book \u201cJehudit: How Beautiful the World Could Be\u201d<\/h6>\n

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Prof. Antony Polonsky, Prof. \u0160ar\u016bnas Liekis and Dr. Daiva Price<\/h6>\n

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Litvak culture forum following programme:<\/h1>\n

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until 10 05<\/span> Mausha Levi and Shimon Bajer. The legacy of interwar photographers<\/span> <\/div>
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2022 07 28 – 2023 10 05
\nMausha Levi and Shimon Bajer. The legacy of interwar photographers<\/h3>\n

2022 July 28 at the Maironis Museum of Lithuanian Literature we will invite you to the exhibition of Lithuanian interwar photographers “Mausha Levi and Shimon Bajer. The Legacy of Interwar Photographers”, which will enrich program of the Kaunas 2022. The photo studio “Baer ir Levi” was founded in Ukmerg\u0117 around 1918. It is symbolic that the opening of the studio coincided with the proclamation of Independent Lithuania. Shimon Bajer was one of the first and best known owners of a photography studio in Kaunas after the First World War, his studio “\u0160. Bajer fotografija” was located at Laisv\u0117s al. Shimon Bajer organized the first Lithuanian Society of Commercial Photographers, which met in his studio.<\/h6>\n
Mausha Levi, according to family legend, gained some experience at a photo studio in New York. About 1923 became the sole owner of the Bajer and Levi photo studio and changed its name to “M. Levi fotografija”. Over the years, Mausha Levi in Ukmerg\u0117 and Shimon Bajer in Kaunas created a photo gallery depicting members of the Seimas and peasants, the army and clergy, students and ordinary citizens, famous foreign visitors, writers, artists, modern architecture and everyday street life. The organizer of the exhibition is Faina Borovsky, granddaughter of M. Levi and niece of S. Bajer, who originated in \u0160iauliai and currently live in New York.<\/h6>\n
The photographs reflect the Lithuanian interwar period, capture the bright personalities of that time, and characteristic details. The works are scattered very widely and are discovered even in New York museums, so today the most important thing is to rediscover them, collect them and take care that no one is left forgotten. At that time, the profession of a photographer was complex and multifaceted. Faina Borovsky is convinced: “It was not enough to just take photos – you had to be a chemist, an illuminator, an artist, draw decorations, print photos. It had to be a universal man – a master,” Photographs in the archives are selected according to the stamps belonging to the photo studio. All the images found raise many questions, so it is especially important to know what is depicted in the discovered photos. The exhibition features many interesting photographs, the context of which has been deciphered by people interested in history and remembering the interwar period. They aim to show what the cultural life of Lithuania and Jews was like, to remember the experience of the Holocaust.<\/h6>\n
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from 09 23<\/span> Ecco homo: for those who stayed and those who left<\/span> <\/div>
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2022 09 23 – 2023 09 01
\nEcco homo: for those who stayed and those who left<\/h3>\n

A visual art and contemporary dance project at Fort IX, in collaboration with the National Resistance Museum of Luxembourg. Visitors will be invited to explore the tragic history of the Second World War in order to better understand our present. The project will be a collaboration between artist Bruce Clarke (FR) and choreographer Tebby W.T. Ramasike (NL).<\/h6>\n
When? Presentation and dance performance 23-24 September 2022<\/h6>\n
The installation will run until 01 September 2023<\/h6>\n
Where? Kaunas IX Fort Museum, \u017demai\u010di\u0173 pl. 73<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
09 28<\/span> Concert-story \u201cThe Music Shell\u201d<\/span> <\/div>
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09 28
\nConcert-story “The Music Shell”<\/h3>\n

In this unconventional concert-story by the international artists’ group Chromatikon, the audience will hear original music inspired by Jewish folk songs, ritual music and professional music. The music will be accompanied by visual narratives.<\/h6>\n
When? 28 September 2022<\/h6>\n
Where? LSMU Emanuel Levinas Centre, V. Putvinskio str. 14<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
09 28-11 13<\/span> Dorothy Bohm's exhibition at Kaunas Photography Gallery<\/span> <\/div>
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09 28-11 13
\nDorothy Bohm’s exhibition at Kaunas Photography Gallery<\/h3>\n

On September 28 at 6 p.m. Dorothy Bohm\u2019s exhibition will open at Kaunas Photography Gallery where it will be on display until November 13. Monica Bohm, the curator of the exhibition and the artist\u2019s daughter, will be present at the opening of the exhibition.
\nA comprehensive retrospective of the renowned British artist of Litvak origin invites visitors to explore the artists who\u2019s impressive career spans more than six decades and several continents. The exhibition features black and white and colour images illustrating the different phases of the Dorothy Bohm\u2019s career and inviting to discover a wide array of aesthetically striking and deeply humane works that document people and landscapes in a rapidly changing world.<\/h6>\n
According to exhibition curator Monica Bohm, \u2018While the human figure in its natural setting remained the primary focus of Dorothy Bohm\u2019s work, and she still used photography in its purest, un-manipulated form, her approach became more painterly and allusive, with an increasing interest in spatial and other forms of ambiguity.\u2019 Dorothy Bohm\u2019s retrospective at the Kaunas Photography Gallery will offer a glimpse of this transformation and into different elements of the photographer\u2019s creative biography.<\/h6>\n
Dorothy Bohm<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(born 1924) spent her childhood in Memel (now Klaip\u0117da), where she enjoyed a relatively carefree childhood. When Lithuania was occupied by the Nazis in 1939, the Dorothy\u2019s parents decided to send her to the UK. There, Dorothy graduated in photography and began to practice portrait photography, establishing her own photography studio. Eventually, she abandoned studio photography after becoming interested in street photography. After a long period of shooting mainly black and white images, she used Kodak colour film for the first time, and thereafter abandoned black and white entirely. Although she stopped taking pictures a few years ago, Dorothy Bohm\u2019s passionate engagement with her photography continues unabated. With some twenty-five solo exhibitions and over fifteen publications to her name, she is widely acknowledged as a doyenne of British photography.<\/h6>\n
Curated by Monica Bohm.<\/h6>\n
The exhibition will run until November 13.<\/h6>\n
The exhibition is supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture.<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
09 28 - 10 30<\/span> Photography exhibition \u201cBack to Kaunas\u201d<\/span> <\/div>
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2022 09 28 – 10 30
\nPhotography exhibition “Back to Kaunas”<\/h3>\n

A photography exhibition of the last Litvaks of Kaunas by Litvak Michael Schubitz (parents born in Kaunas). Many of the people captured in the photographs went through the hell of the Holocaust. Some of them left Kaunas for Palestine before the World War II. “I want to bring them back to the Kaunas they left so many years ago,” says the author.<\/h6>\n
When? Opening on 28 September 2022. Open until 30 October 2022.<\/h6>\n
Where? Vytautas Magnus University Central Hall, S. Daukanto str. 28, 2nd floor<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
09 29<\/span> Exhibition \u201cLithuanians in the Streets of Israel\u201d<\/span> <\/div>
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2022 09 29
\nExhibition “Lithuanians in the Streets of Israel”<\/h3>\n

This exhibition is an invitation to take a walk on a symbolic street in Israel, an amalgam of various streets of the cities of Israel named after prominent Litvaks \u2013 spiritual and cultural leaders of the Jewish communities in the present and historical territory of Lithuania, visionaries of the ethnic Jewish state or world-famous scientists and artists. It is also significant that independent Lithuania has realised the importance of these persons to the history and culture of the country; some of these persons have become part of the public culture of remembrance with streets in Vilnius (Gaon, Antokolskio streets) and Kaunas (Mapu, Zamenhofo streets) bearing their names.<\/h6>\n
The initial version of this exhibition was displayed at Beit Hatfutsot: Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv in October 2015 during the visit of President Dalia Grybauskait\u0117 of Lithuania to Israel. Lithuania cele- brates the 100th anniversary of the restoration of statehood this year and the State of Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary, so the exhibition in Vilnius has been supplemented by focusing on figures important to the statehood (Simon Rozenbaum \u2013 the interwar Lithuanian diplomat and Consul General in Tel Aviv), culture (Lea Goldberg \u2013 a famous Israeli writer, who has translated many Lithuanian folk songs into the Hebrew language), etc. of both countries. The lines from the poem by Goldberg accurately depict the relationship of Litvaks with Lithuania \u2013 often contradictory, but always painfully nostalgic. These lines were read out during the ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the State of Israel in Jerusalem:
\nMy homeland \u2013 land of beauty and poverty
\nThe queen has no home, the king has no crown.
\nThere are seven spring days in the year
\nAnd cold and rain all the rest.<\/h6>\n
The authors of the exhibition are Litvaks living in Israel\u2013 photographer Roza Litay with her granddaughter Lia and Dr Carol Hoffman. They immortalised the streets of various cities in Israel, predominantly the streets of Tel Aviv, which have become a symbol of the start of a new life of the Jews in Israel. As Roza Litay said, \u2018Tel Aviv is like a physical symbol of the return of the Jews to Israel. Jerusalem is our internal world, our spirit and sanctity and Tel Aviv is our daily life.\u2019 A street name is an important part of the pulsating daily life, chiefly related to the search for a specific address. The memorial and state ideology message sent by the street name in daily life is not normally visible (it becomes apparent during coups and turmoil when monuments are pulled down and streets or squares, etc. are renamed). The main idea behind the exhibition was to draw the eyes of the rushing passer-by to the plate with the street name and thus to capture not only practical information, but also the symbolic memorial message. The message communicated by the street name has its own meanings for the authors of the idea \u2013 one meaning for Roza who was born in Lithuania, and a different meaning for Carol, who was born in the US, and is preoccupied with its genealogy and the commemoration of her forefathers in Lithuania, and yet another meaning for Lia Litay, a student born in Israel, who first learned about Lithuania and Litvaks from her grandmother. Therefore, the brief information provided next to the photographs of the names of the streets is just a hint at the biographies of those extremely devout persons, whose contributions to Lithuanian and world culture you will become acquainted with at the Museum of Litvak Culture and Identity due to be opened in Vilnius in the next few years.
\nAu\u0161ra Ro\u017eankevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117<\/h6>\n
Authors of the exhibition Roza Litay, Lia Shiboleth and Dr Carol Hoffman (IL). Organised by the Vilnius Gaon Museum of Jewish History.<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
09 29<\/span> Concert. Anatoly Shenderov's \u201cAfter Shagal\u201d<\/span> <\/div>
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2022 09 29
\nConcert. Anatoly Shenderov’s “After Shagal”<\/h3>\n

The composer Anatoly Shenderov said of this work: “Almost 30 years ago, when I was in Jerusalem for the first time, in the special hall (synagogue) of the Hadassah Medical Centre, I saw extremely bright colours on the floor. It was a reflection of Marc Chagall’s twelve stained-glass windows mounted high up on the ceiling. They were full of symbols – triangles and circles, imprints of birds, fish, beasts, menorahs and Hebrew letters. A kind of Babylon. However, Shagal’s main source of inspiration is the Bible and his own experience. The image was constantly changing as the sun set. My work is also full of symbols – the clarinet recalls the former Jewish life in Europe, the percussion and the string quartet are like an allusion to the Biblical world.”<\/h6>\n
Shenderov’s work will be performed by the Chordos String Quartet, clarinettist Algirdas \u017di\u016bra and percussionist Arkady Gotesman. Shenderov and Gotesman have a long personal creative friendship: especially for this work, Gotesman has made a stand that can hold pieces of stained glass.<\/h6>\n
When? During the Litvak Culture Forum<\/h6>\n
Where? VMU Great Hall, S. Daukanto str. 28<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
09 29<\/span> From Ashes to Glory: Kovno and Vilna Ghetto musicians at the Nuremberg Opera (1946)<\/span> <\/div>
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09 29<\/h3>\n

From Ashes to Glory: Kovno and Vilna Ghetto musicians at the Nuremberg Opera (1946)<\/h3>\n

Marija Krupoves is a singer, scholar, folklorist and is known in many countries. By singing Yiddish songs, Krupoves presents and promotes Lithuania and Jewish culture to the world.<\/h6>\n
“This is a concert about those whose glances recorded their lives in an invisible diary, those for whom the barrack wall was a prayer book, who kept their violins, whose fates eventually became the pride of the world. About Kaunas and its special spirit”, say the organisers.<\/h6>\n
The concert will commemorate the most prominent Jewish personalities from Kaunas: the philosopher Emanuel Levinas, the poets Leah Goldberg and Abba Kovner. The concert will recall an extraordinary event involving musicians who survived the Kaunas and Vilnius ghettos. On 7 May 1946, in the displaced persons camp in Landsberg, Bavaria, they gave a concert at the Nuremberg Opera House during the Nuremberg Trials to try the Nazis. It was a triumph of spiritual resistance.<\/h6>\n
The singer is accompanied by Art\u016bras Anusauskas, violinists Borisas Kirzner and Vytautas Mikeli\u016bnas, double bassist Eugenijus Kanevi\u010dius, accordionist Darius Bagdonavi\u010dius, clarinettist Haroldas Parulis and percussionist Arkadijus Gotesmanas.<\/h6>\n
When? 29 September 2022<\/h6>\n
Where? “\u017dalgiris Arena Amphitheatre, Karaliaus Mindaugo Ave. 50<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
09 30\u201310 01<\/span> THE GRAND PREMIERE! \u201eKAUNAS KANTATA\u201c<\/span> <\/div>
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09 30 \u2013 10 01
\n\u201eKauno kantata\u201c<\/h3>\n

Publikos laukia nepamir\u0161tamas \u012fvykis Kauno \u201e\u017dalgirio\u201c arenoje.\u00a0Specialiai Kaunui para\u0161ytos kompozitoriaus Philipas Milleris (Piet\u0173 Afrikos Respublika) kantatos pasaulin\u0117 premjera!<\/h5>\n
Kelet\u0105 met\u0173 kurta kompozicija yra bendradarbiavimo su menininke Jenny Kagan (Did\u017eioji Britanija) ir vietos muzikos k\u016br\u0117jais rezultatas. K\u016brinys \u2013 \u012ftraukianti muzikin\u0117 patirtis, kvie\u010dianti klausytojus pasinerti \u012f daugiatau\u010dio miesto praeit\u012f ir sud\u0117tingas Kauno istorijas.\u00a0Tai \u2013 ir jaudinanti garso ir vaizdo sintez\u0117, apeliuojanti \u012f suvok\u0117jo moral\u0119.\u00a0Prie \u0161ios muzikin\u0117s kelion\u0117s prisijung\u0117 daugiau nei \u0161imtas vietos muzikant\u0173 ir daininink\u0173, chor\u0173, skirting\u0173 \u017eanr\u0173 ir kart\u0173 atstov\u0173.<\/h6>\n
Kada? 2022 09 30 \u2013 10 01<\/h6>\n
Kur? \u017dalgirio arena, Karaliaus Mindaugo pr. 50<\/h6>\n
Organizatoriai: Kaunas 2022<\/h6>\n
Mokamas<\/h6>\n
Daugiau apie rengin\u012f \u010dia<\/a><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
until 10 16<\/span> Simon Karczmar's painting exhibition<\/span> <\/div>
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until 10 16<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

Simon Karczmar’s painting exhibition<\/h3>\n

An exhibition of paintings by the Litvak from Dieveni\u0161k\u0117s, opening a window into the forgotten world of the Jewish shtetl.<\/h6>\n
When? June 2022 \u2013 September 2022<\/h6>\n
Where? A. \u017dmuidzinavi\u010dius Museum of Works and Collections, V. Putvinskio str. 64<\/h6>\n
Litvak Music Programme<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Art installation in public spaces \u201cThreshold\u201d<\/span> <\/div>
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from 07 18
\nArt installation in public spaces “Threshold” <\/span><\/h3>\n
Artist Jyll Bradley (GB) will create an artistic installation in the city centre, symbolically bringing the symbol of Jewish culture – the mezuzah – back to the streets of Kaunas. Her work is also a metaphor for the idea of individual, personal light, to which everyone who agrees to display a mezuzah can contribute.<\/h6>\n
When? Presentation on 18 July 2022, independently accessible throughout the year.<\/h6>\n
Where? One of the central districts of Kaunas<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
William Kentridge's exhibition \u201cWhat We Don't Remember\u201d<\/span> <\/div>
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iki 11 30
\nWilliam Kentridge’s exhibition “What We Don’t Remember”<\/h3>\n

For the first time in Eastern Europe, an exhibition by one of the world’s most influential contemporary artists, a Litvak from the PAR, is taking place.<\/h6>\n
The artist invites us to a dialogue with ourselves and talks about the selective memory of humanity. The displacement of facts, stories and memories as a means of self-preservation or propaganda is typical for people from Johannesburg, Rome and Kaunas, says the artist. We all choose what to remember and what to push out of our memory. Kentridge hopes to fill in these cracks in memory and, at the same time, talk to us about what we do not remember, consciously or unconsciously.<\/h6>\n
When? The exhibition runs until 30 November 2022.<\/h6>\n
Where? National M. K. \u010ciurlionis Art Museum, V. Putvinskio str. 55<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/i><\/div><\/div>
Exhibition \u201cOut of Darkness\u201d<\/span> <\/div>
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2022 08 04 \u2013 10 31
\nExhibition “Out of Darkness”<\/h3>\n

Artist Jenny Kagan (GB) brings to life her parents’ story of their experiences in Kaunas during the Holocaust. The interactive installation, set in a 19th century building in Kaunas Old Town, invites viewers to explore their feelings and experiences in the face of memory, light and darkness.<\/h6>\n
When? Opening on 04 August 2022, running until 31 October 2022.<\/h6>\n
Where? Gimnazijos str. 4<\/h6>\n
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“Kaunas 2022” Litvak Culture Forum Advisory Board members:<\/h1>\n

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Antony Polonsky<\/h1>\n

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Professor Emeritus at Brandeis University, author of numerous monographs (RAS, UK).<\/h4>\n

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Peter Salovey<\/h1>\n

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Professor of Social Psychology, President of Yale University, Honorary Doctor of VMU (USA).<\/h4>\n

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Gercas \u017dakas<\/h1>\n

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Chairman of Kaunas Jewish Community (LT).<\/h4>\n

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Zev Krengel<\/h1>\n

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Vice President of the Jewish Board of Deputies of South Africa (RAS).<\/h4>\n

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Tsvia Walden<\/h1>\n

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Psycholinguist, Professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (IL).<\/h4>\n

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\u0160ar\u016bnas Liekis<\/h1>\n

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Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy, VMU (LT).<\/h4>\n

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Darius Degutis<\/h1>\n

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Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania for Special Assignments, former Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to Poland, Israel, South Africa (LT).<\/h4>\n

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Mi\u0161a Jakobas<\/h1>\n

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Founder and former director of the ORT Gymnasium in Vilnius, founder and former director of the ORT Gymnasium in Vilnius, mentor of the Lyceum “Sokratus” of Vytautas Magnus University (LT)<\/h4>\n

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James E. Young<\/h1>\n

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author and distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Founding Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA).<\/h4>\n

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Partners<\/h1>\n

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Contacts<\/h1>\n

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Curator Daiva Citvarien\u0117 \u2013 Price<\/h3>\n

E-mail: daiva@kaunas2022.eu<\/a><\/h3>\n

Laisv\u0117s al. 36<\/h3>\n

Kaunas, 44240<\/h3>\n

Ph: +370 685 61929<\/h3>\n

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