Jewish studies in Lithuania: history and challenges. Washington, DC.
The Embassy of Lithuania would like to invite you to join us for a discussion on the Holocaust studies in Lithuania. The event will feature insights from distinguished historians of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Institute of History of Lithuania.
RSVP by November 18th to rsvp.us@urm.lt
Violeta Davoliūtė is Senior Researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of History and Professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University. She has published extensively on the topics of forced displacement after WWII, historical trauma, identity, nationalism, and reckoning with the legacy of genocide in the Baltics and Europe. Davoliūtė is a co-editor of the CEU Press book series Memory, Heritage and Public History in Central and Eastern Europe.
Simon Goldberg is Postdoctoral Fellow in Public History at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 2024, he received his Ph.D. from Clark University’s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies for his dissertation, “Writing and Rewriting the History of the Kovno Ghetto, 1941-1999.” Goldberg’s research has been supported by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the Claims Conference, and the Wexner Foundation, among others. His scholarly interests include East European Jewish history, Yiddish and Hebrew diary writing, gender and the Holocaust, and the history of knowledge.
Gintarė Malinauskaitė is a research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History. In 2017 she defended her doctoral thesis in History at Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2017 until 2022 she was a research fellow and head of the Vilnius Branch Office of the German Historical Institute Warsaw. Her research interests focus on Holocaust research, memory studies, war crimes trials, and the 19th and 20th century history of Lithuania. Her newest publication: The Holocaust and Soviet War Crimes Trials in the Cold War Context: The 1964 Klaipėda War Crimes Trial (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2024).
Darius Staliūnas is Chief Researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of History. His academic interests include Russia’s nationality policy, ethnic conflicts, problems of historiography, and places of memory in East-Central Europe. He is the author of Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007), and Enemies for a Day: Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania under the Tsars (Budapest: CEU Press, 2015).
