Lithuania – Page 2 – Deep Baltic

Lithuania deepbalticJanuary 29, 2018 0

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 →

culture deepbalticNovember 23, 2017 0

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 →

opinion deepbalticNovember 14, 2017 0

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 →

culture deepbalticOctober 30, 2017 0

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 →

Estonia deepbalticOctober 16, 2017 0

How the Children of Baltic Refugees to Britain are Rediscovering their Roots

"When my grandfather died, my father stopped speaking Latvian... he had no-one to speak to"Continue Reading →

Interviews deepbalticJuly 6, 2017 0

Stephan Collishaw: Turning Lithuania’s Troubled Past into Fiction

British author Stephan Collishaw has been closely involved with Lithuania since moving there on a whim in the mid-'90s.Continue Reading →

literature deepbalticJune 22, 2017 1

Fiction – The Song of the Stork

The Song of the Stork tells the story of Yael, a fifteen-year-old Jewish girl separated from her family on the Polish-Lithuanian border during World War IIContinue Reading →

Interviews deepbalticJune 20, 2017 1

Gatis Krūmiņš: Debunking Myths of Soviet Investment in the Baltics

Krūmiņš's calculations appear to show that, actually, Latvia – in common with all of the Baltic states – was a net contributor to the Soviet budgetContinue Reading →

culture deepbalticJune 1, 2017 0

Creators of Independent States: Latvia, Lithuania and Jelgava Gymnasium

The story of how a remarkable school in the southern Latvian city of Jelgava, became a place of disproportionate importance for two Baltic nations – not only Latvia, but also…Continue Reading →

culture deepbalticMay 23, 2017 0

“Ground” – Haunting Photos of Industry and the Baltic Winter

Ground is a cartographic project of sorts, one which points out transport arteries such as train tracks, roads, pipelines, high voltage transmission lines...Continue Reading →