Join Nick Sayer and hear about his personal quest to understand more of his family’s background, as well as broader questions about modern Jewish history in Lithuania.
Why were lots of Jewish people living in Lithuania in the late nineteenth century?
Why did some Jews emigrate, and where did they go? What happened to those who did not? What happened to Lithuanian Jews during the Holocaust, and how has Lithuanian society tried to come to terms with this in the post-war world?
Much of Jewish history in Lithuania is filled with tragedy. However, Nick will also reflect on the more positive aspects of the Jewish experience in Lithuania.
Many people know very little about the lost world of the Jews of Lithuania, and Nick’s book, The Jews of Lithuania: A Journey Through the Long Twentieth Century, aims to fill that gap.
Nick Sayer read history at Magdalen College, Oxford. He spent his working life as a corporate transactional lawyer and was a partner at several leading London law firms. He has a Masters in Historical Research from Birkbeck and is an Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute, University of Southampton.
