A self-described Yiddishist was personally offended by the suggestion that Vilna no longer existed. But she discovered that in today’s Lithuania, the dissonances between Vilna and Vilnius ripple across the country – and around the globe.
The president of Lithuania has promised that his country’s investigation into the wartime activities of three elderly Jewish World War II partisans will be dropped, according to an official of the Simon Wiesenthal Center – but can he keep the promise?