Monday, May 11, 2009

Publication: New Book in Lithuania about Jewish "Traces."

Publication: New Book in Lithuania about Jewish "Traces."

A new book about the lost Jewish heritage has been published in Lithuania.

Sounds of silence: traces of Jewish life in Lithuania: album by Raimondas Paknys (photos), Dovid Katz (preface author and consultant), and Isaac Zibuts (project) is a memorial album dedicated to the annihilated Lithuanian Jewish communities of Lithuania. The book includes photographs of cemeteries, prayer houses, and other buildings and sites connected to Jewish life, "or more precisely, images of what remains many years after the golden age of Jewish Lithuania."

Sounds of silence [2009, 201 pages, hard cover] is published by R. Paknio leidykla. [ISBN: 9789955736271].

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