Translation of Lite, Vol. II
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Published in Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1965
Ch. Leikowicz
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see also Lite (Volume I)
| From the Publisher | 13 | |
| The Second Volume of Lite | Ch. Leikowicz | 15 |
| Lithuanian Nusach [davening style of a community] | Reuven Rubinshtein | 19 |
| DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF DR. MENDEL SUDARSKY AND ALTE SUDARSKY | ||
| Dr. Mendel Sudarsky | M. Ladsky | 33 |
| Alte Sudarsky Z”L | Reuven Rubinshtein | 49 |
| HISTORY, WORKER-MOVEMENTS AND PARTIES | ||
| Zamut and her Jews | Dr. Herman Frank | 57 |
| The Young Zionism Movement in Lithuania | Dr. Shmuel Elyashev (Friedman) | 63 |
| General Zionism in Independent Lithuania | Moshe Cohen | 71 |
| The HaShomer Youth Movement in Lithuania | Yaakov Amit (Gottlieb) | 91 |
| The Bund in Lithuania | Victor Shulman | 102 |
| On the History of Leftist Labor-Zionists in Lithuania | L. Shimoni | 123 |
| Pages from the Social Conditions and Struggles of Workers in Lithuania | Grigory Aronson | 163 |
| Beginning of the Jewish Workers' Movement in Lithuania | H. Shkliar | 181 |
| JEWISH ECONOMICS AND PRODUCTIVITY | ||
| Jewish Cooperation | Zvi Port | 233 |
| “ORT” in Lithuania | Agronomist Yaakov Oleisky | 269 |
| SCHOOL AND EDUCATION | ||
| The Hebrew School-System and Culture Movement in Lithuania | Dov Lipetz | 293 |
| Jewish Secular Schools in Lithuania | Eliahu Shulman | 323 |
| “Yavne” Schools in Lithuania | Yitzhak Rafael HaLevi Etzion (Holtzberg) | 351 |
| Jewish Student Groups in Lithuania | A. Ben-Efraim (Efrimtchik) | 369 |
| The Vilna Jewish Teacher's Institute | M. Ginzburg | 381 |
| Workshops and Drills of the School-System in Vilna Province | A. Golomb | 393 |
| WRITERS, PRESS, YIVO | ||
| Hebrew Poets of Lithuania | Mordecai Jaffe | 405 |
| Kovno, Lithuania Produced Over 100 Jewish Writers | Daniel Charny | 407 |
| The Kovno Daily NewspaperFolksblat | Yosef Gar | 419 |
| The Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO) in Lithuania | Kh. Shulman | 441 |
| CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS | ||
| Our Cultural-Social Activity | Alte Arsh-Sudarsky | 441 |
| The Mapu Library in Kovno | Dr. D. Shwartz | 485 |
| Sport Organizations | Yaakov Yazelit | 493 |
| ART, THEATER AND MUSIC | ||
| Mark Antokolsky and His Time | Yitzhak Lichtenstein | 505 |
| Isaac Levitan | Y. Kissin (Garn) | 511 |
| Victor D. Brenner | Liev Shubin | 519 |
| Jewish Artists of Lithuania | Yitzhak Kozlovsky | 525 |
| The Kovno Dramatic-Musical Society and the Vilner Trupe [Vilna Troupe] | Leib Kadison (Shuster) | 535 |
| The Jewish Opera Studio | Leib Nadel | 547 |
| Jascha Heifetz | D. F. | 555 |
| Joseph Achron | Leib Nadel | 559 |
| Leopold Godowsky | Leib Nadel | 563 |
| About Cantors and Cantorial Art in Lithuania | Natan Stolnitz | 567 |
| DESTRUCTION OF LITHUANIA | ||
| “Feather-People” in the Claws of the Nazis | Yisrael Kaplan | 595 |
| Zalman Kalmanovitch, a Lamed-Vovnik [one of the 36 Just Men] of Jewish Culture | L. Chain | 603 |
| Mordecai Rudnik Z”L | Y. A. | 611 |
| Assassins of Jews in Vilkomir, Shavel, and Other Shtetlach | A. Yerushalmi | 615 |
| Jewish Sense of Lithuania vs. the Nazis | L. Ledin | 635 |
| Jewish Dentists and Dental Technicians in Lithuania | Shmuel Zalman Griliches | 637 |
| About the Mass Deaths of Kovno Jews | Ch. Leikhowicz | 641 |
| A New Polish-German Newspaper | Yitzhak Kovalsky | 673 |
| German Officers and Jewish Furs | Leib Kanyukhovsky | 687 |
| PERSONALITIES | ||
| Shaul Pinchas Rabinovitch | Z. Verba | 690 |
| Herman Minkovsky | Dr. Herman Frank | 715 |
| Shmuel Rozenfeld | Prof. Ch. (Rabbi Tzeir) Chernovitch | 723 |
| The Gaon Hirsh Rabinovitch Z”L | Rabbi M. Sh. Shapira | 731 |
| When the Chofetz Chaim Was a Shopkeeper | Rabbi Sh. Pliskin | 739 |
| Hillel Mileikovsky; Moshe Luntz | A. R. Malachi | 743 |
| Moshe Leib Lilienblum | Shmuel Rozenfeld | 759 |
| The Last Hours of A. Veiter (pseudonym of A. Devenishski) | Leib Yaffe | 771 |
| Dr. Klatzkin and his Rabbinic Family in Lithuania | Dr. Mendel Sudarsky | 775 |
| L. Bramson; A. Devorin-Yaffe; M. Klevansky; Hirsh Lekert | Grigory Aronson | 787 |
| Yehoshua Pelovitch – Author of the “Labor-Zionists” Oath | Henech Stein | 807 |
| LITHUANIAN JEWS IN THE WORLD | ||
| Lithuanian Jews in Canada | B. Y. Zak | 813 |
| Jewish Lithuania and Jewish South Africa | Yonatan Botnitzky | 843 |
| Lithuanian Jews – Pioneers of the Jewish Press in America | Moshe Shtarkman | 851 |
| Index of Personalities | 869 | |
| Index to Places Mentioned | 891 | |
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