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Mordechai [Motti] Zalkin

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Jewish History, Emeritus

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Prof. Mordechai (Motti) Zalkin is a full professor Emeritus of modern Jewish history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. His special fields of interest are the cultural, social, religious and economic history of the Jews in Lithuania, and the history of Jewish education in Eastern Europe. Among his books are: A New Dawn: The Jewish Enlightenment in the Russian Empire – Social Aspects (2000)
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Ruth Leiserowitz

German Historical Institute Warsaw

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Millersville University of Pennsylvania

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Lithuanian Jews in South Africa

Lithuanian Jews in South Africa - Identity and Culture

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מרא דאתרא 8

בית אבי חי

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Jewish Kaunas in the interwar years

The lecture deals with the involvement of Jews in the fields of architecture and medicine in Kaunas.

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The image of the Jew in rural Lithuania

The image of the Jew in rural Lithuania from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of t... more

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Communities without a rabbi

The relationship between rabbi and community in Eastern Europe

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מרא דאתרא 5

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Papers by Mordechai [Motti] Zalkin

Where Does Laisves aleja Lead To?

APE ADANCI, 2024

THE JEWISH AUTONOMY AND THE ZIONIST DREAM IN 1920'S LITHUANIA

Jewish Urbanization in Kaunas

Jews and Urban Life

Jewish Cultural Life in Interwar Vilnius

The History of Jews in Lithuania

The Father, the Son, and Religious Zionism / האב, הבן והציונות הדתית

Ḳatedrah be-toldot Erets-Yiśraʾel ṿe-yishuvah

Antisemitism in Lithuania

Antisemitism in Lithuania

Lithuanian Jews in South Africa

Lithuanian Jews in South Africa - Identity and Culture

10 views

מרא דאתרא 8

בית אבי חי

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Jewish Kaunas in the interwar years

The lecture deals with the involvement of Jews in the fields of architecture and medicine in Kaunas.

25 views

מרא דאתרא 3

בית אבי חי

מרא דאתרא 4

בית אבי חי

The image of the Jew in rural Lithuania

The image of the Jew in rural Lithuania from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of t... more

8 views

Communities without a rabbi

The relationship between rabbi and community in Eastern Europe

4 views

מרא דאתרא 5

בית אבי חי

מרא דאתרא 2

בית אבי חי

מרא דאתרא 1

בית אביחי

מראדאתרא 9

בית אבי חי

מרא דאתרא 10

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מרא דאתרא 6

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מרא דאתרא 7

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Where Does Laisves aleja Lead To?

APE ADANCI, 2024

THE JEWISH AUTONOMY AND THE ZIONIST DREAM IN 1920'S LITHUANIA

Jewish Urbanization in Kaunas

Jews and Urban Life

Jewish Cultural Life in Interwar Vilnius

The History of Jews in Lithuania

The Father, the Son, and Religious Zionism / האב, הבן והציונות הדתית

Ḳatedrah be-toldot Erets-Yiśraʾel ṿe-yishuvah

Antisemitism in Lithuania

Antisemitism in Lithuania

Scientific Literature and Cultural Transformation in Nineteenth-Century East European Jewish Society

Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism, 2005

Scientific Literature and Cultural Transformation in Nineteenth-Century East European Jewish Society

Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism, 2005

וילנה עיר ואם Earthly Vilnius: City as a Mother, City as a Daughter

Milestones, 2015

This article examines the image of Vilna in the eyes of its Jewish inhabitantsץ

Deborah Romm as a Cultural Agent דבורה ראם כסוכנת תרבות

דרך ספר The Way of the Book, 2021

This article examines the business and economic conduct of Deborah Romm, the owner and director o... more

The Status and Authority of the Community Rabbi in 19th Century Eastern Europe

Authority and Dissent in Jewish Life, 2020

The "Hebrew Law Society" and the Emergence of Hebrew-Nationalism in the Early 20th Century Russian Empire

מאופק לאופק.pdf

To Remember or to Forget - There is no other Option

How to Commemorate the Great Synagogue of Vilna Site, 2017

Chair, Department of Jewish History Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 59 PROF. MORDECHAI... more Chair, Department of Jewish History Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 59 PROF. MORDECHAI ZALKIN Prisiminti arba pamiršti. Kito kelio nėra! Brangūs kolegos, draugai, ponios ir ponai, Prieš dvidešimt tris metus, saulėtą vėlyvos gegužės dieną atvykau į Vilnių. Pirmo mano vizito į šį miestą tikslas buvo peržiūrėti istorinius dokumentus, gulinčius vietos archyvuose. Tai buvo mano doktorantūros studijų veiklos dalis. Neturėjau nė menkiausio supratimo kaip susiorientuoti mieste, kuris ką tik atvėrė savo vartus lankytojams iš vakarų, todėl prieš kelionę studijavau miesto žemėlapį ir stengiausi jį įsiminti. Tiesą sakant, tai buvo tarpukario Vilniaus senamiesčio žemėlapis. Vos atvykęs į Vilnių, pajutau nenumaldomą potraukį pažinti miestą, jį pajusti, pamatyti savo akimis ir įsitikinti, ar tai iš tikrųjų yra tas miestas, apie kurį aš tiek daug skaičiau ir žinojau. Tos pačios dienos vakarą, kai miestą apgaubė tamsa, o gatves savo blausia šviesa apšvietė tik keli žibintai, aš išėjau klajoti po Vilniaus gatves. Neturėjau aiškaus kelionės tikslo, galbūt dėl to, kad po ilgų metų skaitymo, daugelis miesto vietų man atrodė "pažįstamos". Nors ir jaučiausi taip tarsi vaikščiočiau po Jeruzalės, mano gimtojo miesto gatves, aš vis dar svarsčiau kurią kelionės kryptį pasirinkti. Gal reiktų susirasti rabinų seminarijos pastatą, kuriame studijavo daugybė vietos Maskilim judėjimo atstovų, kurie buvo mano atliekamo mokslinio tyrimo pagrindiniai herojai? O gal geriau eiti į Žydų gatvę, įsivaizduoti melstis skubančius žydus, mitriai skuodžiančius siaura, prekystaliais apstatyta gatvele? O galbūt geriau būtų aplankyti Šventų Švenčiausiąją -Vilniaus Gaono studijų kambarį? Bespręsdamas, kur keliauti, suvokiau, kad kojos mane atvedė tiesiai į Shulhoifą [sinagogų kiemą].

Social status and authority

Return to "Jerusalem of Lithuania": A Stroll through the Leyzer Ran Collection Archive

East meets East: Joseph Judah Chorny as the agent of the Jewish Enlightenment in the Caucasian Jewish communities - המזרח מתבונן במזרח

In early 1860's, Joseph Judah Chorny, a Young Maskil from the city of Minsk, arrived at the Jewis... more In early 1860's, Joseph Judah Chorny, a Young Maskil from the city of Minsk, arrived at the Jewish community of Temir-Khan-Shura in Dagestan. Though the official motive for his journey to the Caucasus Mountains was an invitation to serve as a teacher for the local Jewish children, in fact, for Chorny, who was born and educated in White Russia, it was a point of departure of a long research-trip that lasted about twelve years. During this period, he documented in details a wide variety of historical, social, religious and cultural aspects of the Jewish communities in the Caucasus. Thanks to his detailed accounts, which were published in contemporary European Hebrew press, many Eastern and Central European Jews became acquainted with the very existence of the Jews of the Caucasus, as well as with various aspects of their world. This article is an attempt to draw preliminary outlines of a complex and fascinating biography of a young Maskil, centered on his encounter, as an Eastern European Jew, with what he considered "Jews of the East". Thus, the article discusses the main elements that characterized this encounter; the role played by the "Maskilic network" in disseminating his descriptions and insights, as well as his impact on the formation of the image of the Caucasian Jews in late nineteenth century European Jewish society.

The concept of east European Jewry

Wilno - Vilnius - Vilne

Richard Cohen et. al. (eds.), Insiders and Outsiders: Dilemmas of East European Jewry, Littman Library, Oxford, pp. 221-230, 2010

Tradition, Enlightenment and Democracy in the 19th Centiry East European Jewish Society

In the Democratic Way: on the historical sources of the Israeli democracy, 133-152, 2012

פתחי דברים

by Mordechai [Motti] Zalkin and Luba Charlap

זכור לאברהם, 2020

פתיחה לספר זיכרון לאברהם זלקין

From the Hidden Treasures of Jewish Vilna / מגנזי וילנה

Historical Documents from the Annals of Lithuanian Jewry

מרא דאתרא? רב וקהילה בתחום המושב / Rabbi and Community in the Pale

This book explores various social and economic aspects of the nineteenth-century community rabbi'... more This book explores various social and economic aspects of the nineteenth-century community rabbi's life in Eastern Europe. The book, based on the reconstruction of the biographies of over more than a thousand rabbis, reviews the process of training the community rabbi, the ways in which he was selected for this position, the relationship between him and various elements of his community, his economic situation, the status of the rabbi's wife, and the reasons that led many rabbis to serve in several communities throughout their lives.

Modernizing Jewish Education in the Nineteenth Century Eastern Europe

אל היכל ההשכלה: תהליכי מודרניזציה בחינוך היהודי במזרח אירופה במאה התשע-עשרה

A New Dawn - The Jewish Enlightenment in the Russian Empire - Social Aspects / בעלות השחר: ההשכלה היהודית באימפריה הרוסית - היבטים חברתיים

The City of Vilna: A Biographical Dictionary of the Vilna 19th Century Jewish Dignitaries [ed.] / עיר ווילנא

ספר הקונדס

Naujos Lietuvos žydų istorijos perspektyvos

Vilnius as a Jewish City

Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora, 2009

Wolfowicz, Szymon

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

Vilna as a Center of Modern Jewish Culture

New Jewish Time: Jewish Culture in a Secular Age - An Encyclopedic View, 2007

Epstein, Yeḥi’el Mikhl

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

Szabad, Tsemaḥ

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

Tchernowitz, Ḥayim

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

Menasheh of Ilya

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

Lebensohn, Avraham Dov

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

Gottlober, Avraham Ber

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

Levinzon, Yitsḥak Ber

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

Katzenellenbogen, Tsevi Hirsh

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

The Intellectual Heritage of Lithuanian Jewry

מאופק לאופק.pdf

אל תגעו במשיחי.pdf

הרצאה בכנס לציון פרישתם של פרופ' גרשון בקון ופרופ' משה רוסמן

Sharunas, prince of Dainava in a Hebrew gown: The encounter of local Jews with Lithuanian culture in interwar Lithuania

Perkunas, Jesus and Moses: The Image of the Jew in the 19th Century Lithuanian Christian-Pagan Countryside

What is there, in the Litvak’s Head?

Can Jews Become Farmers? Rurality, Peasantry and Cultural Identity in the World of the Nineteenth Century Lithuanian Rural Jew

Jewish Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

Yiddish in the Lithuanian Shtetl

The Enlightened Library: the Role of Textbooks in Eastern European Jewish Schools in the Process of Shaping the Enlightened co

East European Rabbinate and the Haskalah: A Love-Hate Affair? THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JEWISH ENLIGHTENMENT HASKALAH AND RELIGION

The European Rabbinate and the Land of Israel

The Childhood Experiences in East European Traditional Society

Hebrew Poetry of the Haskalah: A Selection

Catharsis, 2021

Hirsz Abramowicz: Profiles of a Lost World

Polin, 2002

Review

Darius Staliunas: Enemies for a Day: Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania under the Tsars

Zion, 2019

Review