Fifty of the famous modernist’s works are on display at the Kaunas regional museum until New Year’s. The artist became interested in lithography in Berlin in 1920, learning the art under the tutelage of the German artist Hermann Struck. Chagall, who worked under a whole series of names, was born into a Jewish family in Vitebsk, now in Belarus. In 1922 the family fled Bolshevik rule, first resettling in Lithuania, and then Germany and France. During World War II Marc Chagall escaped the Holocaust in America, but returned to France after the war. He died on March 28, 2005 as he was ascending to his studio in an elevator. The motif of flight is integral to Chagall’s work. Members of the Kaunas Jewish Community attended the exhibition.

You are cordially invited to the 22nd gathering in the “Destinies” series with one of Lithuania’s best known contemporary composers and winner of the National Prize

Anatolijus Šenderovas

The program includes:

A selection from the Lithuanian Radio and Television program Legends about Šenderovas’s work
A concert of works by Šenderovas

You’re invited to a special Hanukkah celebration at the Vilnius Grand Resort Hotel
at 6:00 P.M. on December 12, 2015.

A warm Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony and a wonderful evening of celebration await you! Musical guests from Israel Uri Zer and Gala and Sergei Libenstein will perform a special program.

Tickets: 15 euros for adults, 10 euros for children 15 and under.

Tickets can be bought workdays from 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. in the White Hall of the Lithuanian Jewish Community from November 26 till December 7.

For further information call 8 678 81514

As part of celebrations of the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the YIVO institute for Jewish research in Vilnius, the Lithuanian Jewish Community and YIVO organized a moveable museum exhibit called “YIVO 1925-2015” which is currently being hosted by the Lithuanian Cultural Heritage Department on the first floor of their building at Šnipiškių street No. 3 in Vilnius.

The bi-lingual exhibit presents the story of the YIVO institute from its inception, presenting the founders, operations in pre-war Vilnius, the war years and operations in New York, where founder Max Weinreich relocated YIVO in 1939.

All of the texts, archival documents and photographs in the exhibit come from YIVO’s collections in New York. Currently YIVO conserves over 385,000 books and periodicals and about 24 million more documents, photographs and audio and video recordings. The curator of the exhibit is Eddy Portnoy and the designer was JUDVI. The Lithuanian Martynas Mažvydas National Lbirary and the Lithuanian Central State Archives also contributed to the exhibit.

The exhibit will be on public display until January 5, 2016 at the Cultural Heritage Department.

The Vilnius Sholem Aleichem ORT Gymnasium is inviting former students to a meeting-evening to take place at 6:00 P.M. on Friday, December 11. We’ll catch up with old friends we’ve missed, have some food and listen to live music. Come join us.

Sincerely,
Your principal and teachers

European and Lithuanian Jewish Youth (Work, Projects, Vision)
Amit Belaitė

Participation in a photo project about Jews living in Lithuania now. If you have an interesting historical photograph or an item important to you, bring it along (but not more than three items, please).

12 noon, Sunday, November 22 in the Jascha Heifetz Hall on the 3rd floor of the Lithuanian Jewish Community, Pylimo No. 4, Vilnius

The annual winter camp for kids and adolescents aged 7 to 17 is scheduled for December 24-30. Make sure to register early at the Lithuanian Jewish Community from 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.

For more information call +37068542463 or +37069920212 during working hours.

Screening of the film “Sudie, Lietuvos Jeruzale” [“Farewell, Jerusalem of Lithuania”] and meeting with the director, Saulius Beržinis.

12 noon, November 15

The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, the Germany Embassy and the Goethe Institut in Lithuania warmly invite you to celebrate International Tolerance Day this November 16 by attending a screening of Hanna’s Journey (2013), a film by Julia von Heinz, at 5:30 P.M., Monday, November 16 at the Tolerance Center at Naugarduko street no. 10/2 in Vilnius.

The film runs for 100 minutes. The film is in English, German and Hebrew, to be shown with Lithuanian subtitles. Entry is free to the general public.

from IMDB: “A German girl travels to Israel to help people with disabilities, where she learns about the role of her grandparents in WWII and meets a man who wants to move to Berlin.”