Le Shana Tova 5772 !!!

 

Happy jewish new year! The cake will flow tonight.

I am not Jew, but I was born and grew up in a city which was known for hundreds of years as "Northern Jerusalem" 

Before WWII the Jewish population of Vilnius was more than 100 000 , after four years of Nazi occupation it decreased to just 9 000, and after few first decades of Soviet occupation only around 3 000 of Jews were living in town. 

But I grew up between Jewish families, I still remember old people speaking Yiddish , taste of "tsimus" and "matza" and lot of noisy Jewish children around ...  

In fact, Yiddish and Central European Jewish legacy is almost history, but we still have Gaon street and Jews street in down town, and the town still celebrates Hanuka every year on one of the central squares. Unfortunately, kletzmer sounds only during musical fests