Lithuania is Building a Convention Center Over Vilna’s Jewish Cemetery. Here’s How You Can Protest. | Tablet Magazine

Lithuania is Building a Convention Center Over Vilna’s Jewish Cemetery. Here’s How You Can Protest. | Tablet Magazine

For centuries, the city of Vilna (today Vilnius) was the center of Jewish life in what was then known as Polish-Lithuania. By the turn of the 20th century, the Lithuanian capital boasted over 100 synagogues, an array of Jewish newspapers, and scores of other cultural and religious institutions. It played host to the famed Gaon of Vilna, one of Judaism’s spiritual giants, and also to the socialist Bund, the secular Jewish labor movement….