Educational events started in the project from 2020. They aim to introduce participants to traditional Jewish meals, as well as religious holidays and other traditions, introduce famous Litvaks and their work
LITHUANIA IN LITVAK ART (2023)
And this year, instead of education, we organized an exhibition. The Vilnius Gaon Museum of Jewish History agreed to share the mobile exhibition "Lithuania in Litvak Art", which consists of 15 mobile stands. The exhibition ran for almost 1.5 months in the Akmenė Region Museum, and during the main event, it was temporarily moved for one day to the small hall of the Akmenė Culture House, where a round table discussion took place. Over the centuries, the Lithuanian Jewish community acquired a Lithuanian identity closely related to Lithuania. For Jewish artists, Lithuania became the whole world - a mother, a home, a manuscript of wisdom, a talisman, a consolation, a broken earth, a place of tragic losses... They surrounded Lithuania with an atmosphere of love, longing and poetic melancholy. The exhibition emphasizes the most important aspects of Litvak art, which reveal the most popular images of Lithuania in painting, graphics, poetry, novels, songs, music, cinema, and theater. Some artists were interested in images of romanticized historical Vilnius, others were interested in their native countryside or traditional Lithuanian landscape, and others were interested in poor working-class quarters and city ruins. Poetry lovers will be delighted by the exhibition of poems about Vilnius and Lithuania translated from Yiddish, including a unique work - a poem by the famous artist Marko Shagal about the Great Synagogue of Vilnius. Fans of history, music, art, cinema and theater will also discover many interesting facts at the exhibition.
LITVAKS IN THE STREETS OF ISRAEL (2022)
This year, instead of education, we organized a photo exhibition "Litvaks in the Streets of Israel". Photographers Roza Litay, Carol Hoffman and Lia Shiboleth captured streets in Israel named after famous Litvaks and added descriptions of these people. Roza Litay and Vilnius Gaon Museum of Jewish History gladly agreed to share the exhibition.
PURIM MEALS (2021)
SHABBAT SWEETS (2020)
Daumantas Todesas from Vilnius and his daughter Laurina Todesaitė, who lives in Paris but was in Lithuania during the event by a happy coincidence, introduced the education participants to Shabbat traditions and customs, told about traditional Shabbat sweets and invited everyone to taste them.