Community cultures
Lithuanian Tatar manuscripts: kitab, chamail and family memory
Learn to distinguish Lithuanian Tatar manuscript types, script from language, and family inscriptions from the main text.
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Community and diaspora culture
Manuscripts, customs, oral memory, hymnbooks and objects in migration illuminate different cultural experiences connected with Lithuania.
Community cultures
Tatar funeral traditions in Lithuania: rites and remembrance
Explore prayer, the dalavaras, cemeteries and changing Tatar funeral practices in Lithuania through historically dated sources.
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Karaim wedding and family traditions: sequence and meaning
Understand Karaim wedding stages, the betrothal document, the ataman and family transmission through community-published sources.
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Old Believer culture in Lithuania: prayer, books and language
Explore Lithuania’s Old Believer religious tradition, books, houses of worship and local dialects through dated institutional sources.
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Lithuanian Roma oral history: a guide to listening
A guide to Lithuanian Roma oral history: narrators, language, translation, personal testimony and questions for independent learning.
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Lietuvininkai prayer gatherings and hymnbooks
Surinkimai, lay preachers and family hymnbooks: local examples from Priekulė and the relationship between home, faith and song.
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Culture in Lithuanian DP camps: schools, print and performance
Lithuanian displaced-person camp life after the Second World War through school records, newspapers, concert documents and everyday objects.
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Lithuanian diaspora objects: a scout shirt and an editor’s card
Explore Lithuanian diaspora heritage through Pranas Dauknys’s scouting objects, Antanas Vaivutskas’s papers and the questions their provenance raises.
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