On May 15, 11:02=A0am, "J. Anderson" <anderso...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "EZ" <zvi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> > Is there a good reference that I could read that touches upon this
> > time period (1795-1917)? Thanks!
>
> There's quite a lot of information to be extracted from what has so far
be=
en
> published through the Yizkor Book Project
(seehttp://www.jewishgen.org/yiz=
kor/).
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> Here's just one example (about Jews in
Panevezys):http://www.jewishgen.org=
/yizkor/lita/Lit1403.html
>
> Regards,
> John
Thanks for the good read John. For me this subject is very
interesting, since when I was growing up, I did not know about those
things - those who collaborated with nazis either fled or were taken
care by the soviets, and those who collaborated with the soviets did
not talk about their deeds.
Similar to the web page where it is stated that 'Lithuanian villagers'
were good natured, my gradparents did not have bad opinion of the Jews
that lived there. However, it seems that the contact between the two
societies was based more on business than anything else. And there is
nothing wrong with the fact that the two societies co-existed with
relatively little contact.
Also, it indicates that Jewish intilligentsia drifted to Russian
language - and took the "official" jobs such as being lawyers.
Lithuanians were concentrated on promoting their own language, very
few of them were lawyers (because of Tsar policies), and those who had
university degrees were forced to serve in places like Bulgaria
(Basanavicius) or Armenia (A. Vienuolis). Would it be fair to say that
as educated Lithuanians were fighting russification as hard as they
could during the time of print ban 1864-1904, the other part of the
society were being slowly absorbed into the Russian sphere?
The other question I have is the periods around 1831 and 1861. As
Tsar's cossack bands were trying to suppress the uprisings (which took
several years each, some people fled to Prussia as a result) and were
rampaging, raping, burning, pillaging, and rounding up people for
de****tation to Siberia (e.g. J.Kazickas family was de****ted around
1861-1863) were there 'stereotypical' "Eastern European" pogroms
taking place against Jewish population?
Best regards,
EZ
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