The Old Jewish Ghetto in Vilna - Pesach 5765
Wishing everyone a Good Shabbos!
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Friday, January 30, 2009
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The Old Jewish Ghetto in Vilna - Pesach 5765
Wishing everyone a Good Shabbos!
Technorati Tags: Vilna, Lithuaniua, Ghetto, Photography, Picture of the Week
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What a lovely sepia scene! There are still some frum Jews in Vilna? I wrote a post about nearby Mariampol, where my grandfather's relatives are from, and a Lithuanian insisted it should be called Vilnius. Like wiping away history. To us Jews, it was Vilna.
Shabbat Shalom.
Another stunning image. Shabbat Shalom, Mottel.
Very cool picture!
-Leora: There are perhaps a handful full of frumme Yidden in Vilna - the Shliach, people who came close through Chabad . . . and a few others. The two people shown, however, are American bochurim visiting for Pesach. Mariampol is in Kovno - where I went that year.
As to the name? In German, Russian and Polish it was also Vilna (Wilno what have you) and thus somewhat an affront to Lithuanian Nationalism - something much in vogue in those countries recently freed from the Soviet regime.
-Shavuatov and Tuvia: Thanks!
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