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Towards A Multidimensional Approach

Shivaun Woolfson

Shivaun Woolfson has a PhD from the University of Sussex, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania : People, Places and Objects

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book Chapter

...Lithuania, long regarded as the once vibrant heart of Jewish intellectual, cultural and spiritual life, has carried a weight, in terms of its impact on world Jewry, disproportionate to its relatively small size (Levin 2000: 10). Before...

Jerusalem of the North – An Historical Context

Shivaun Woolfson

Shivaun Woolfson has a PhD from the University of Sussex, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania : People, Places and Objects

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book Chapter

...Before any act of re-insertion can occur, it is first important to fill the vacuum from which these individuals’ lives have emerged and to understand what it is that they remember and why. Yerushalmi alerts us to the fact...

Living with the Past

Shivaun Woolfson

Shivaun Woolfson has a PhD from the University of Sussex, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania : People, Places and Objects

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Irena Veisaite suggests that tolerance cannot be one-sided. As a child, saved from certain death by her ‘second mother’, Stefanija Ladigiene, an ethnic Lithuanian, she identifies today as both Lithuanian and Jewish. And while the country...

The Memory Bearer: Fania Brantsovsky

Shivaun Woolfson

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Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania : People, Places and Objects

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book Chapter

...My introduction to Fania Brantsovsky is contradictory: She is, on the one hand, the subject of a highly public vilification in the Lithuanian press for her alleged participation in an attack, carried out by Jewish and Soviet partisans...

The Memory Bearer: Berl Glazer

Shivaun Woolfson

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Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania : People, Places and Objects

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...It could be argued that ethnographic research has always been necessarily sensory in that participatory methods demand a researcher's physical engagement with the materiality and sociality of their subjects and their worlds. Social...

My Journey Begins in Ponar

Shivaun Woolfson

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Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania : People, Places and Objects

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book Chapter

...I arrive in Vilnius on the morning of Sunday, 30 August 2008. As the first interviews are scheduled for the following day, my guide suggests a visit to Ponar/Ponary/Paneriai, named, much like everything else in Jewish Lithuania...

The Creative: Dora Pilianskiene

Shivaun Woolfson

Shivaun Woolfson has a PhD from the University of Sussex, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania : People, Places and Objects

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book Chapter

...My introduction to Dora Pilianskiene occurred towards the end of the Katz lecture when she flickered momentarily onto the screen, then walked disconcertedly about her old shtetl, Ziezmariai, pointing to a ramshackle shed, then an abandoned...

The Creative: Josef Levinson

Shivaun Woolfson

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Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania : People, Places and Objects

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book Chapter

...Josef Levinson is an intensely private man who, at 91, had not previously spoken publicly of his war-time experiences. When approached by Ruta on my behalf, he responded with a list of questions as to my intentions and reminded her...

The Memory Bearer: Rachel Kostanian

Shivaun Woolfson

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Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania : People, Places and Objects

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...From Rachel Kostanian, the woman charged for the past two decades with the stewardship of the Green House Jewish Museum, a small, dolls’ house-like structure, secreted away at the top of a hill in central Vilnius, I might have expected...

The Mourner: Chasia Spanerflig

Shivaun Woolfson

Shivaun Woolfson has a PhD from the University of Sussex, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania : People, Places and Objects

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book Chapter

...It fits neatly into the palm of my hand. It is smooth, round and plastic-like against the skin. Amber in colour, it is flecked through with hints of gold and has, at its centre, an uneven island shape which when held up to the light gives...