The Golden Age Of Lithuanian Jewry
Monday, 25.6.01
18:00 - Assembly, meeting of friends, refreshments
18:30 - Greetings:
- Chairman of the Board of the Horowitz Families Association Dr. Menashe Horowitz
- Mr. Yosef Melamed, Chairman of the Association of Lithuanian Immigrants
- Mr. Michael Shmaevich, Deputy Chairmanof the Association of Immigrants from Vilna and Surroundings
- The "Vilna" Choir. Choir-master Mrs. Tamara Eiches
- Mr. Eitan Shilo, Chairman of the Israel Genealogy Society in Tel-Aviv
- Introduction - the evening's master of Ceremonies Mr. Ephraim Abba
18:45 - Lithuanian Jewry at its best :
- Two extraordinary periods of splendor of Lithuanian Jewry - Prof. Dov Levin,
the Hebrew University, the Institute for Modern Jewish Studies
- Aliah of Ha-GRA (the Gaon of Vilna) disciples to Eretz - Israel, by Mr.
Daniel Ophir
- Enlightenment and Renaissance Movement in Lithania, by Mrs. Bilha Halperin
- Short movie film about Vilna '1939
- Written material about Lithuanian families relevant to the seminar's issues:
* Zeitlin * Rivlin * Frumkin * Horowitz