Dear Colleagues

Below our attempt to keep up with the most recent public debate documents concerning the fate of the old Vilna Jewish cemetary at Piramónt  (now in the Šnipiškės section of Vilnius). Thanks so much to those who have sent us materials to enable us to keep our coverage as complete as possible. If there are errors or omissions, please do let us know, with thanks in anticipation.

3 July 2015.  Der Yid: ‘Central Rabbinical Congress to Lithuania and the EU: Return the entire Vilna Jewish cemetery to its Jewish owners’ [in Yiddish: Hisákhdus Horabónim tsu Líte un E.U. lénder: Git tsurík far yidn dem gantsn vilner beys-hakháyim].

2 July 2015.  Defending History: ‘Central Rabbinical Congress of the USA and Canada Protests Desecration of the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery’.

2 July 2015.  Defending History: ‘Vilna Gaon Synagogue in Tel Aviv posts protest against Vilnius convention center plan for old Jewish Cemetery.

2 July 2015.  Defending History: ‘Israel’s leading Litvak rabbis issue impassioned protest against convention center plans for the old Vilna Jewish cemetery’.

30 June 2015.  Defending History: ‘Rabbinic Judgment on the old Vilna Jewish cemetery’ by Rabbi Shmuel Jacob Feffer [in rabbinic Hebrew]. Digital Hebrew version.

25 June 2015.  The Times of Israel: ‘Dancing on Jewish Graves in Vilna’ by Pinchos Fridberg.