The South African Jewish Museum at 88 Hatfield Street in Cape Town launched a travelling exhibit from Lithuania May 4 called “Zakhor. Remember. Topography of Images of Jewish Vilna.”

The exhibit is dedicated to remembering the history of Jewish Vilna in art and Vilnius/Vilna as a major center of Eastern European Judaism and Jewish culture. The multicultural city referred to sometimes as the Jerusalem of the North had its own myths and realities. Famous Jewish scientists, scholars, philosophers, rabbis, intellectuals, publishers and artists lived and worked there.

Full story in Lithuanian here.