BASHEVA RAN (1916-2014)

The Jewish Community of Lithuania extends sincere condolences to our friend Professor Faye Ran (New York City), who has visited our community on a number of occasions, on the death of her mother, Basheva Ran (born in Vilna in 1916 to Josef Konski and Sarah Ahs Konski; passed away in the US on 30 July 2014). Basheva Ran was the wife of the late Leyzer Ran, author of the three volume Jerusalem of Lithuania, one of the greatest works ever compiled about Jewish Vilna (it appeared in New York in 1974), and of many other works, most of them about the prewar cultural wealth of the city once known as Jerusalem of Lithuania.