The Silenced Muse: the Life of a Murdered Jewish Lithuanian Poet
Matilda Olkin's short life and her poems stand as a testament that the fragile beauty of the written word gives us strength even in humanity’s darkest hour.Continue Reading →
Existential Fairy Tales: An Interview with Lithuanian Author Rasa Aškinytė
"The surface layer of fairy tales is simple, and it creates an illusion that we can understand them easily. It’s the same with everything in life."Continue Reading →
Fiction: The Easiest – Rasa Aškinytė
"I know who I was in my previous lives (although I might have mixed up the order of events)..."Continue Reading →
Previews of Baltic Screen Week in London
This week in London, Baltic View is putting on a series of films from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Previews and trailers here.Continue Reading →
Jan Bułhak – the Man Who Captured Turn-of-the-Century Vilnius
“My far-away, unknown colleagues and friends – take pictures with your heart!”Continue Reading →
Deep Baltic Podcast – Lietuva
For the second ever Deep Baltic podcast, Will Mawhood is joined in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second city, by Richard Schofield and Žilvinas Rinkšelis for a discussion that covers the country’s Jewish…Continue Reading →
Film Focus: Together For Ever
"Natural and believable performances transport you to modern Vilnius and allows you to experience how families cope in post-modern society."Continue Reading →
For Those Forgotten by History: The Sun Sets in the East
Alexander Belinski and Agne Dovydaityte's feature-length documentary is based on a Lithuanian peasant’s diary from 1984Continue Reading →
A Colourful History in Monochrome: Interwar Lithuanian Adverts
The book Interwar Lithuanian Advertising collects many of the most striking, colourful or simply strange examples of adverts produced in the Republic of Lithuania in the interwar period.Continue Reading →
Back to Shul: Capturing the Uses of Lithuania's 100 Former Synagogues
"I visited and photographed former synagogues in 59 Lithuanian towns, villages and cities whose contemporary uses include churches, funeral parlours, shops, hairdressers..."Continue Reading →
Higher Education in a Post-War Refugee Camp: The Baltic University
"He was truly amazed, if not perhaps shocked, that people, refugees, were not only thinking of creating a university, but were actually organising it."Continue Reading →
DB Recommends: Andrius Mamontovas
Imagine a musician singing about hope and freedom at a time when the Soviet system was crumblingContinue Reading →