Monthly Archives: January 2015

VEMU Heritage Collection Campaign: “Music in the Life of Estonians”

2014 was the year of the song festival. Eight song and dance collectives from Canada travelled to Tallinn to the festival and had a peak experience of music and togetherness. As if carried along by this powerful emotion, the year 2015 has been designated the Year of Music in Estonia.

Read more January 17, 2015

Meeting with the Editor-in-Chief of the Lithuanian Canadian Weekly

On November 14, 2014 Ramūnė Sakalauskaitė-Jonaitienė, the editor-in-chief of the Lithuanian Canadian weekly Tėviškės žiburiai (The Lights of the Homeland), visited the Lituanica Department at the National Library of Lithuania.

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Estonians in Russia: Lives and Histories. Estonian Settlements VI.

With the book Estonians in Russia: Lives and Histories (Compiled by Anu Korb Estonian Literary Museum, 2014) we continue publishing the memoirs of Estonians in Russia.

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Senior Researcher of the National Library of Lithuania Becomes the Representative for the Lithuanian-American Community, Inc. in Lithuania

In December 2014, the Lithuanian-American Community, Inc. appointed Dr Dalia Cidzikaitė, a senior researcher at Lituanica Department of the National Library of Lithuania, as its new representative in Lithuania.

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The First Lithuanian Immigrants in the United States: Their Image in the Jungle by U. Sinclair VS. Documentary Heritage of Their Culturalpublic Life at Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania.

Lithuania has recently seen the release of the sixth edition of the Jungle, a novel by the American novelist Upton Sinclair, portraying early twentieth century Chicago and the slaughterhouses in its suburbs in which emigrants from across Europe worked.

Read more January 15, 2015

In memoriam – Dalė Teresė Lukas

Dalė Lukas, an active member of The Lithuanian Scouts Association and the chair of the Lithuanian American Archives Committee, passed away peacefully on December 11, 2014 from cancer.

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