Arvasin, että vaikka olin selvitellyt, miten bussilippuhommelit toimivat #Vilna’ssa, niin pieleen menisi kuitenkin.

Tahkoin pankkikorttia bussin lukulaitteella, eikä mitään tapahtunut. Katsahdin kysyvästi vieressä seisovaan tyttöön. ”Ilmaiset liput tänään”, tyttö sanoi, asetti kuulokkeen takaisin korvalleen ja palasi musiikkinsa pariin.

Ja _nyt_ huomasin, että niinhän näytöllä luki tosiaan. NIIN SITÄ TAAS KÖYHÄÄ HUIJ— eikun siis, mahtavaa!

S’on #Liettua’n itsenäisyyspäivä, näetsen. Opin myös.

"Those prized possessions are in the #archives of the #YIVO Institute for #Jewish #Research, celebrating its 100 anniversary. The documents, photographs and objects record modern Jewish #history and culture, from the #religious to the #comic, from the horror of the #Holocaust to the joys of Irving Berlin #sheetmusic.

YIVO was established in 1925 in #Vilna, then in #Poland, now #Lithuania, with the support of such luminaries as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. Today headquartered in #NewYorkCity, it is an institution that represents the wholeness of the Jewish people, said its executive director, Jonathan Brent.

"There are #Zionistic works, there are #antiZionistic works," he said. "There are materials about #anarchism, there are materials about #Bolshevism, there are materials about #immigration, 'atheism, the entire gamut of Jewish life."

That is not by accident, Brent said. Its founding ethos was that every part of Jewish life was important."

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/treasures-yivo-jewish-archive/4004642/

"Spider-Web"
from my cycle "The Seven Little Lanes"
recorded at the premiere in 2021 at the Holocaust Exposition in Vilnius, Lithuania

with Agnė Dukštaitė on accordion and yours truly on fadolín

For Sarah and Yaron.
May their memories be for a blessing... Baruch Dayan Emet.

https://vimeo.com/1087169231

#music #holocaust #remembrance #memory #vilnius #vilna #wilno
#LT