Practical info

Type of location: Cultural Center

Emmanuel Levinas Center

V. Putvinskio Str. 14, LT-44212, Kaunas

Tel : +370 65 908 384

Emmanuel Levinas Centre – LSMU

Historical description

Kaunas

Nothing of the Jewish presence in Kaunas remains but the synagogue, whereas before the war there was a yeshiva, a kosher slaughterhouse, and a prison. The birthplace of Emmanuel Levinas, Kaunas was before the Shoah a major center of European Judaism, with a ... Read more