Category
page 1Writers from Kaunas
Emmanuel Levinas
Jewish-French-Lithuanian philosopher
Leah Goldberg
Israeli poet (1911–2070)
Irena Veisaitė
Lithuanian academic (1928-2020)
Abraham Mapu
Hebrew novelist (1808–1867)
Sonya Levien
screenwriter (1888-1960)
Louis Ginzberg
American rabbi (1873–1953)
Edvardas Gudavičius
Lithuanian historian (1929–2020)
Emanuelis Zingeris
Lithuanian politician
Dalia Grinkevičiūtė
Lithuanian doctor and author
Vytautė Žilinskaitė
Lithuanian author (1930–2024)
Aharon Amir
Hebrew poet, translator and essayist (1923–2008)
Ewa Thompson
Polish-American Slavist
Maksas Soloveičikas
Russian-born Lithuanian Zionist activist, journalist, and politician

Theodore Rothstein
Soviet diplomat (1871–1953)
Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor
Russian rabbi and Talmudist (1817–1896)
Loreta Anilionytė
Lithuanian philosopher, writer and translator
Isidore Epstein
British rabbi
Abraham Moses Luncz
Jerusalem academic and journalist (1854–1918)
Sara Ginaite
Lithuanian-born Canadian academic and author, former resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor (1924-2018)
Jurate Rosales
Amateur historian (1929–2023)
Nochum Shtif
Yiddish writer, translator, linguist (1897–1933)
Israel Isidor Elyashev
Yiddish writer

Tomas Baranauskas
Lithuanian historian
Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė
Lithuanian philologist, professor, human rights activist, feminist writer and politician
Algimantas Bučys
Lithuanian linguist (b. 1939)
Birutė Ciplijauskaitė
Lithuanian-Canadian literary scholar and translator (1929-2017)

Helene Khatsḳels
yiddish children's educator and writer (1882-1973)
Cemach Feldstein
Lithuanian Jewish educator and cultural activist