The vanished world of Lithuanian Jews / edited by Alvydas Nikžentaitis, Stefan Schreiner & Darius Staliūnas ; preface by Leonidas Donskis.

"Papers presented in this collection were delivered at the international conferences in Nida (1997) and Telšiai (2001), Lithuania"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Traditions of the commonwealth : Lithuanian Jewry and the exercise of political power in tsarist Russia / John D. Klier -- Changes in the political situation and the "Jewish question" in the Lithuanian Gubernias of the Russian empire (1855-April 1863) / Darius Staliūnas -- Politics, society, and antisemitism : peculiarities of the Russian empire and Lithuanian lands / Theodore R. Weeks -- Notes on the origin and development of modern Lithuanian antisemitism in the second half of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century / Vladas Sirutavičius -- Some remarks on the Jewish condition in interwar east central Europe / Ezra Mendelsohn -- Expressions of Litvak pro-Lithuanian political orientation c. 1906-c.1921 / Eglė Bendikaitė -- Lithuanian general aspects of domestic policy 1918-1940 / Česlovas Laurinavičius -- Historical sources for antisemitism in Lithuania and Jewsih-Lithuanian relations during the 1930s / Saulius Sužiedèlis -- State and minorities : the first Lithuanian Republic and S.M. Dubnov's concept of cultural autonomy / Verena Dohrn -- Murder of the Jews in German-occupied Lithuania (1941-1944) / Yitzhak Arad -- Holocaust in Lithuania : an outline of the major stages and their results / Arūnas Bubnys -- Holocaust and musar for the Telšiai yeshivah : Avraham Yitshak and Eliyahu Meir Bloch / Gershon Greenberg -- Holocaust in the western regions of Belarus / Yevgeni Rozenblat -- Lithuanian participation in the mass murder of Jews in Belarus and Ukraine (1941-1944) / Martin C. Dean -- Coming to terms with a difficult past / Joachim Tauber.