Many scholars and academics took part in the early days of the Lithuanian Jewish Community during the period when Lithuania was reestablishing national independence. They formed their own Union of Scholars. This organization is no longer active. The Community would like to revive the Union of Scholars in the name of its noble founders who did so much for Lithuania and the Jewish Community, including historian and sociology professor Izraelis Lempertas; physics professor Adolfas Bolotinas; philologist, lexicographer and Lithuanian language reformer Chaceklis Lemchenas; and many others. The time has come to continue the Union’s work. We, members of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, are not just citizens of the Republic of Lithuania and consumers, we are creators. Scholarship and research is of utmost importance to us. We can set learning against the ignorance of anti-Semites. A new generation of productive scholars has matured in the Jewish Community. Although learning knows no communal boundaries, academic studies provide us with more self-confidence and significance, and therefore we will support in multiple ways scholarship and research in all fields. We begin our new Learning section with an introduction to the psychological and other effects of the Holocaust. Mazl tov!

• Academic Insight into the Holocaust Experience