Lithuania’s Lost Jewish Archives Come to Life Online

[PeterK]

Vilnius. After seven decades holed up in a Catholic church basement in the Lithuanian capital, thousands of Yiddish manuscripts that survived the Holocaust and Stalin’s anti-Jewish onslaught are finally seeing the light of day.

A browning, century-old play by renowned Jewish playwright Jacob Gordin is among them. Penned in Yiddish but using the Latin alphabet, it still bears the red wax seal of Tsarist Russia’s censors.

”’Mirele Efros’ was a very popular Yiddish play, and a theatre sent the copy [to the Tsarist censor] to get permission to stage it,” said historian Lara Lempertiene, showing off several manuscripts, some in Yiddish, others in Hebrew.

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