Translation of Yahadut Lita
Published by The Association of The Lithuanian Jews in Israel, Tel Aviv 1972
Edited by Yaakov Ulaysky, Mordecai Elishiv (Fridman), Leib Garfunkel,
Rafael Hasman, Dov Lipitz, Israel Kaplan, Dr. Yaakov Rabinson
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| Title | Author | Page |
| The Political Realm | ||
| Chronology | 19 | |
| The Jews of Independent Lithuania from the Standpoint of Comparative History | Jacob Robinson | 26 |
| A General Overview of the Political History of the Jews of Independent Lithuania | Leib Garfunkel | 28 |
| The Struggle of Lithuania's Jews for National Rights | Leib Garfunkel | 35 |
| Jews in the Lithuanian Sejms | Leib Garfunkel | 73 |
| Vilnius Between Lithuania and Poland | Moshe Cohen | 84 |
| The Economic Realm | ||
| The Economy and Demography of Lithuanian Jewry | Jacob Lestschinsky | 91 |
| Agriculture and Gardening among the Jews of Lithuania | Jacob Reisen | 101 |
| Jewish Credit Cooperatives in Lithuania | Zvi Fort | 103 |
| Education and Culture | ||
| Education in Hebrew and the Hebrew Movement in Independent Lithuania | Dov Lipetz | 113 |
| The Growth of Hebrew High Schools [Gymnasium] in Lithuania | Dr. Joseph Harari-Berger | 132 |
| The Reali High School [Gymnasium] in Kovno | Shimon Zak | 134 |
| The Hebrew High School [Gymnasium] in Kovno | Dr. Aaron Berman | 136 |
| The Hebrew High School [Gymnasium] in Marijampole | Abraham Tory | 140 |
| The Hebrew High School [Gymnasium] in Shavli | Dr. Eliezer Yerushalmi | 145 |
| The Hebrew High School [Gymnasium] in Panevezys | Dr. Israel Mehlman | 147 |
| Virbaln and Its High School [Gymnasium] | Dr. Eliezer Yerushalmi | 149 |
| The Hebrew High School [Gymnasium] in Vilkovishk | M. I. Mendelsohn-Mishkotz | 151 |
| The “OR” Hebrew High School [Gymnasium] in Vilkomir | Dr. Tuvia Leibowitz-Arieli | 152 |
| The Hebrew High School [Gymnasium] in Rasein | Dr. Zemach Tzimrion | 155 |
| Teacher Training for Hebrew Schools | Dr. Raphael Rabinowitz | 158 |
| The “Yavne” Educational Trend in Lithuania | Dr. Isaac Raphael Halevi Etzion (Holtzberg) | 160 |
| The Yiddish School in Independent Lithuania | Yudel Mark | 166 |
| The Hebrew High School [Gymnasium] in Vilkomir | Yudel Mark | 170 |
| The Commercial Hebrew High School [Gymnasium] in Kovno | Joseph Gar | 172 |
| ORT in Lithuania | Jacob Oleiski | 174 |
| The Kovno Children's Home | Akiva Yishai (Vanhotzker) | 180 |
| From Kovno to Ben Shemen | Mordecai Elyashiv (Friedman) | 184 |
| The Jewish Students in Lithuania | A. Ben-Efraim (Efraimchik) | 185 |
| Political Parties and Movements | ||
| The General Zionists – 'A' and 'B' | Abraham Tory (Golub) | 189 |
| The Eretz Yisrael Workers Movment | Dr. Shmuel Eliyashiv-Friedman | 198 |
| “Hashomer Hatzair” | Ya'akov Amit (Gottlieb) | 203 |
| “Poalei Zion” Left | L. Shimoni | 207 |
| “Mizrachi” and the “Torah v'Avoda” Movement in Lithuania | David Reznik | 215 |
| The Revisionist Movement in Lithuania | Mordecai Katz | 218 |
| The “Statists” | Dr. Herzl Rosenblum | 226 |
| The “Brit Kanaim” [Covenant of Militants] (Bara”k) | A. Klaus | 228 |
| “Folkspartie” | Yudel Mark | 229 |
| “Agudath Israel” | Eliyahu-Meir Bloch | 234 |
| The “Hehalutz”[Pioneer] Movement in Lithuania | Mordecai Elyashiv (Friedman) | 236 |
| With the Pioneers in Lithuania | David Cohen | 240 |
| The “Kibush” Kibbutz in Pladnogi | Shabtiel Deutsch | 245 |
| Literature – Journalism – Art | ||
| Jewish Literature and Journalism in Lithuania | Rafael Chasman | 249 |
| Representatives of Hebrew Literature in Lithuania | Nathan Greenblatt-Goren | 258 |
| The Hebrew Book – A Bibliographical Survey | M. Blosher | 260 |
| The Historical and Ethnographical Society of Lithuanian Jews | Israel Kaplan | 268 |
| The Jewish Theater in Lithuania | Israel Segal | 271 |
| The Hebrew Theater in Lithuania | Nathan Shapira | 280 |
| Jewish Artists in Lithuania | Arieh Margoshilski | 283 |
| Sports | Beno Zang | 285 |
| Institutions | ||
| The Eretz Yisrael Office [of the Zionist Movement] in Lithuania | Zvi Barak (Brik) | 291 |
| Jewish Social Institutions in Lithuania | Y. Bolel | 305 |
| Personalities | ||
| Dr. Max (Menahem) Soleveitchik (Soliali) | L. Garfunkel | 311 |
| Samson Rosenbaum | Gershon Alimor (Valkovski) | 314 |
| Dr. Benjamin Berger | Professor Aaron Peretz | 320 |
| Reuben Rubenstein | Rafael Chasman | 322 |
| “Ba'al Machshavos” [Dr. Isidor-Israel Elyashiv] | Dr. Samuel Elyashiv-Friedman | 326 |
| Dr. Mendel Sudarsky | Jacob Oleiski | 328 |
| Rabbi Joseph-Shlomo Kahanamann | Sh. Daniel | 330 |
| Rabbi Abraham-Aaron Borstein | Dr. Shlomo-Shraga Bialovlotzki | 336 |
| Leah Goldberg | Ya'akov Amit | 338 |
| On the Slope | ||
| The Last Year of Jewish Existence in Lithuania | Shmuel Greenhouse | 343 |
| Lithuania Jewry on the Verge of Annihilation | Dr. L. Cheselson | 346 |
| In the Hallow of the Slingshot | Dov Levin | 349 |
| Polish Refugees in Lithuania between 1939-1941 | Zvi Barak (Brik) | 353 |
| Under the Yoke of Soviet Occupation | Joseph Gar | 371 |
| Lithuanian Jewry in the World | ||
| Lithuanian Jews in Eretz Yisrael | Dr. Hanokh Savironi-Drutz | 379 |
| Lithuanian Jews in South Africa | Jonathan Batnitzki | 399 |
| Lithuanian Jews in Canada | B. G. Zak | 403 |
| INDEX | 411 | |
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