Papers by Egle Bendikaite
Central European University Press eBooks, Jun 10, 2011
BRILL eBooks, 2004
This article attempts to analyse the political orientation of the Litvaks in their homeland durin... more This article attempts to analyse the political orientation of the Litvaks in their homeland during a period of crisis in the first two decades of the twentieth century. It treats the Litvaks as an autonomous ethnic community with its own national/ethnic interests, political aims and vision for the future. The political self-determination of the Litvaks and the settling of relations with newly emerged subjects, the new national states, were influenced by outside factors and circumstances. The Jews were the only minority to have a determining influence on the country’s fate without having any territorial pretensions of their own. Their experience during the First World War and the country’s new geopolitical situation transformed Litvak attitudes to nationalist Poland and Soviet Russia and turned them into supporters of the re-established state of Lithuania. Living in one state together with the small Lithuanian nation protected in theory at least the local Jews’ position, guaranteed them cultural autonomy and equal political rights and thus was safer for the Litvaks and suited the interests they sought to defend. To solve the issue of the rise of a “power vacuum” in the east the Litvaks saw in the Lithuanian Republic an optimal guarantor of stability for the local community that would defend them from extreme nationalism and radicalismVytauto Didžiojo universiteta
Brill | Schöningh eBooks, Oct 18, 2007
Lithuanian historical studies, Nov 30, 2005
Lithuanian historical studies, Nov 30, 2001
Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas, Jul 10, 2001
Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts / Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook XIII/2014, 2015
Deeds and Days
Jeigu aš ne sau, tai kas gi man? Jei aš tik sau, tai kas gi aš? Ir jeigu ne dabar-tai kada gi? Ra... more Jeigu aš ne sau, tai kas gi man? Jei aš tik sau, tai kas gi aš? Ir jeigu ne dabar-tai kada gi? Rabinas Hilelis* * Žodžiai iš Mišnos-Talmudo paprotinių normų aiškinimo.
Jewish Culture and History, 2017
Abstract It is generally held that the failure of Jewish national autonomy in Lithuania served as... more Abstract It is generally held that the failure of Jewish national autonomy in Lithuania served as an encouragement for Jewish integration and acculturation, a process that was halted by the Second World War. However there is still little research that analyses the context for a Jewish-Lithuanian mutual recognition. This article analyses Lithuanian and Jewish interactions in the cultural sphere in the years 1925–1940. It looks at a range of contacts between different Lithuanian and Jewish social groups after the failure of the national autonomy in education, the media and culture. It also reconstructs the political and ideological context, to explore the main tendencies, the motivation behind them, and their relevance and impact on Lithuania’s society.
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Papers by Egle Bendikaite