“To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years.” TryingYearsSchoolMassEnglandMottoUnspokenNew EnglandPrepsLithuanians Author:Noah Feldman
“All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million Lithuanians, the murder of hundreds of thousands of Poles, the liquidation of the Crimean Tatars remain in our memory, but no photographic documentation exists; sooner or later they will therefore be proclaimed as fabrications.” MemoriesMillionsCrimeShadowMurderCommittedEmpiresSooner Or LaterOur MemoriesDocumentationDiscreetFabricationDeportationLithuanians Author:Milan Kundera
“I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.” PeopleMemoriesCatholicNeighborhoodMarchChicagoVividPolishEthnicityParishVivid MemoriesLithuanians Author:Sara Paretsky
“I thought A Prairie Home Companion would be an interesting thing to do for a summer or so. Public radio was just seven years old in 1974. It was a tiny organization in which a lot of things got started simply because there was all this time to fill. If you wanted to do an hour on Lithuanian folk dancing, you probably could have done it.” IfsYearsDoneHomeWould BeWantedHoursInterestingSummerOrganizationDancingSevenFolksRadioTinyPerformingThings To DoCompanionSeven YearsInteresting ThingsPrairiePublic RadioLithuanians Author:Garrison Keillor