Vilijampolė (Slobodka) yeshiva in Kaunas
WORTH VISITING: In the 19th century, Slobodka or Vilijampolė yeshiva was one of the biggest and most famous yeshivas both in Lita and in all Europe. The number of its students clearly exceeded the number of students in other yeshivas...
The Romm Family Printing House in Vilnius
WORTH VISITING: First of all, Romm printing house is historically famous as one of the biggest Jewish printing house in Vilnius, where the canonical Babylonian Talmud was printed. Secondly, this printing house enabled the development of Jewish literature both in...
YIVO institute in Vilnius
WORTH VISITING: At the beginning of the 20th century, Yiddish-speaking Jewish communities in Europe initiated the popularization of modern Yiddish language and rethinking it as a language of literature and science as well. The idea of establishing a scientific institute...
The first printing house in Zarasai
WORTH VISITING: The building of the old printing house of 19th-20th centuries is an equally important part of Jewish heritage in Zarasai and history of Zarasai town itself. In 1932-1940, in this exact printing house, at Vytautas str. 8 (nowadays...