Lithuanian Jewish Culture

This exquisite volume provides an introduction to Jewish history and culture starting with antiquity and leading methodically to the rise of Lithuanian Jewry some seven centuries ago. It covers traditional rabbinic culture and kabbalistic traditions, and the Hasidic-Misnagdic conflict. It carries on covering the various modernistic 19th and 20th century movements, including Yiddishism, Hebraism, Zionism, Socialism, and Jewish Art. Sections are also devoted to the Litvaks in the interwar republics, in emigration centres in America and Israel and around the world, including the post-Holocaust survivors in Eastern Europe.