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Mar. 2008
- issue being mailed:
Spring 2008 issue, Vol. 54:1
Articles:
The Price of Freedom:
January 13, 1991 in Lithuania Darius Furmanavičius
Remembering January 13, 1991 Vytautas Landsbergis
The Church Michael Bourdeaux
Vilnius on the Map of Sarmatia: II
Laimonas Briedis [continued form 53:4]
Ode to Walden Pond - The Art of Vytautas O. Virkau Stasys Goštautas
Refreshment Stand by the Sea Icchokas Meras
The Wrold Lithuanian Symposium on Arts and Sciences - Forty Years of Success Stasys Bačkaitis
Reviews:
Aušra Paulauskaitė Lost and Found: The Discovery of Lithuania in American Fiction Reviewed by Patrick Chura
Nov. 2007
- issue being printed:
Winter 2007 issue, Vol. 53:4
Articles:
The Spanish Dimension in
Lithuanian Composer Jonas
Tamulionis’s Works
Danutė Petrauskaitė and
José María Esteve Faubel
Vilnius on the Map of Sarmatia: I
Laimonas Briedis
A Translator’s Reflections on
Kazys Boruta’s Baltaragio
malūnas (Whitehorn’s Windmill)
E. Novickas
Whitehorn’s Windmill
(An Excerpt)
Kazys Boruta
Dual Citizenship
Regina Narušis
Reviews:
E. J. Barnes, Birds of the Baltic.
Reviewed by Lina ramona Vitkauskas
Gražina Sviderskytė, The Hurricane Captain.
Reviewed by Henry Gaidis
Lituanus Index,
volume 53, 2007.
Aug. 2007
Fall 2007 issue, Vol. 53:3
Articles:
The Presidential Crisis
in Lithuania: Its Roots and the Russian Factor.
Richard J. Krickus
Native Realm
Revisited: Mickiewicz's Lithuania and Mickiewicz in Lithuania.
Tomas
Venclova
Poetry:
Lidija Šimkutė.
Reviews:
Giedrius Subačius,
Upton Sinclair: The Ltihuanian Jungle.
Reviewed by William R. Schmalstieg
Giedrius Subačius,
Upton Sinclair: The Ltihuanian Jungle.
Reviewed by
Patrick Chura
Algimantas Taškūnas. Lithuanian
Studies in Australia: The Case for Low-Demand Language and
Cultural
Courses in Higher Education.
Reviewed by Milda Danytė.
The First CD by Vladas
Jakubėnas.
Reviewed by Rita Nomicaitė.
Jun. 2007
Summer 2007 issue, Vol. 53:2
Articles:
Silent Resonance: Antanas
Šileika's 'Woman in Bronze'.
Karl Jirgens
Remembering
Vladimir Toporov.
Algirdas
Sabaliauskas
Power Lines
and Pipe dreams: Energy and Politics in Lithuania.
Vincentas Giedraitis
Art:
Kęstutis Zapkus,
Aspects of Content and Context.
Reviews:
Kieth C. Smith,
Russian Energy Politics in the Baltics, Poland and Ukraine: A
New Stealth Imperialism.
Reviewed by Thomas Lane
Mar. 2007
Spring 2007 issue, Vol. 53:1
-
Special Issue: American Perspectives on Cultural Transition.
Edited by Patrick Chura
Articles:
“Karšta, bet gerai”: The Healing
Spirit of the Druskininkai Pirtis.
Stacy Larsen
Stepping Over. Auridas Jocas
Trajectories.
Bonnie Carlson
Kaip laiškai. Sean Connolly
Going Back: Journal Entries of
a Peace Corps Volunteer.
Indrė Biskis
A Fulbrighter Observes
Lithuania Going West.
John F. X. Knasas
Art:
Rimas Visgirda, Works in Clay – Looking at Lithuania
Reviews:
Ignotas Domeika, Mano kelionės.
Reviewed by Romualdas Šviedrys
Janina Degutytė, Poezija / Poems.
Reviewed by Ina Bertulytė-Bray
Alė Liubinas, Homeland Lost. An Autobiographical Novel.
Reviewed by Rimvydas Šilbajoris
Dec. 2006
Winter 2006 issue, Vol. 52:4
Articles:
The Königsberg/ Karaliaučius/
Kaliningrad Region –
Stalin’s
Legacy Within an Enlarged
Europe.
Darius Furmonavičius
Words, My Words
Vardi, mani vardi.
Vizma Belševica
La Belle Époque in Vilnius.
Laima Laučkaitė
Round Trip.
Irene Guilford
Abraham Cahan’s Vilna and the
Roots of ’Litvak’ Realism.
Patrick Chura
Reviews:
Piero Bugiani, Enrico di Lettonia.
Chronicon Livoniae La crociata del nord.
Reviewed by William Schmalstieg
Oct. 1,
2006
Issues for the years 2004 and 2005 have been added to
the Archive.
A Book Review Index has been added.
Sep. 15, 2006
Fall 2006 issue, Vol. 52:3
Articles:
Between Organization and
Informality: a Few Pages of History of
Santara-Šviesa
Daiva Dapkutė
Culture in
Adversity: the Lithuanian DP
Experience
Linas Saldukas
Forms of Political Expression in
the Lithuanian Community of Canada
Giedrius Janauskas
The Experiences of Lithuanian
Exile: Between Loss and Discovery
Dalia Kuizinienė
Rewriting the Canon: The Nature of
the Political in Contemporary Lithuanian Theater
Jurgita Staniškytė
Art:
Afghanistan 1985-2005:
a Photographic Essay
Jonas Dovydenas
Reviews:
Rasma Karklins,
The System Made Me Do It.
Reviewed by Gundar J. King
Jean-Jaques Subrenat, Estonia:
Identity and Independence
Reviewed by Joshua G. Dean
June 2006
Summer 2006 issue, Vol. 52:2
-
Special Issue: Lithuanian
Folk Songs
This issue
includes a CD: "Transformation of Lithuanian Song"
- Guest editor: Zita Kelmickaitė
Articles:
Why is Song Important to
Lithuanians
Zita Kelmickaitė
The Singing Tradition Among
Lithuanians
Elena Bradūnas Aglinskas
The Archaic Lithuanian Polyphonic
Chant - 'Sutartinė'
Daiva Račiūnaitė-Vyčinienė
Folk Songs in the Works of
Lithuanian Composers
Rūta Gaidamavičiūtė
American Lithuanian Church Choirs
- Nurturers of National Identity
Danutė Petrauskaitė
Lithuanian Songs of Resistance
Kostas Aleksynas
Apr. 11, 2006
Issues for the year 2003 have been added to the Archive
Mar. 2006
Spring 2006 issue, Vol. 52:1
-
New cover design by Vincas Lukas.
-
Special Issue: Lithuania and Central Europe
Articles:
The Mystery of "Good Evil"
Stefan Chwin
Where is Central Europe?
Endre Bojtár
The best Way to Love Our Identity
Tomas Venclova
Influences of "Młada Polska"
(Young Poland) on Early Čiurlionis
Rasa Andriušytė-Žukienė
What Is and Isn't Indigenous to
Lithuanian Culture
Edvardas Gudavičius
Poetry:
Laima Sruoginis
Art:
Petrified Idol, Giewont at Sunrise
L.Wyczolkowski
Garden in Winter
L.Czajkowski
A Winter Tale
F. Ruszczyc
Cemetery
W. Podkowinsky
Cloud
J. Stanislavski
small Art works: Vytautas Virkau, Rasa Prišmontienė
Dec. 2005
Winter 2005 issue, Vol. 51:4
Articles:
II. Baltic Prisoners in the Gulag
Revolts of 1953
L. Latkovskis
Democratic Sate-Building in
Post-Communist Lithuania
Ginta Palubinskas
Youth Communities in Lithuanian
Villages: Activities and Gender Interaction
Žilvytis
Šaknys
Art:
Nijolė Svickas' work by Fire
Stasys Goštautas
Reviews:
Thomas Lane, Victims of Stalin and
Hitler: the Exodus of Poles and Balts to Britain
Reviewed by Anthony
Packer
tailpiece:
Arūnas Taribalda
Oct. 2005
Fall 2005 issue, Vol. 51:3
Special Issue: Lithuanians
in the Gulag
Articles:
I. Baltic Prisoners in the Gulag
Revolts of 1953
L. Latkovskis [Part 1, Part 2 continued in the next issue.]
Lithuanian Children in the Gulag,
Deportations, Ethnicity and Identity - Memoirs of Children Deportees, 1941-1952
Tomas Balkelis
Art:
Jonas Stulgis, From
Lietuviai Sibire/Lithuanians in Siberia
Reviews:
Kate Elizabeth Gross and Darien Janee
Rozentals,
Letters from the Outside: The History of the Friends of the
Prisoners
Reviewed by Anthony Packer
July 2005
Summer 2005 issue, Vol. 51:2
- This issue presents the prize winning articles commemorating 100
years since re-establishment of the free press in Lithuania
by Prof.
Alfred Bammesberger of the Eichstaett Universitet and Prof.Giedrius Subačius of the University
of Illinois at Chicago.
- In conjunction with the "Visual Music" exhibit of Čiurlionis works at MOCA in
Los Angeles and Hirshhorn in Washington DC, an article by Stasys Goštautas and
color reproductions of the exhibited Čiurlionis paintings.
Articles:
Mapping the Position of Lithuanian
in the Twenty-First Century
by Alfred Bammesberger
Development of the Cyrillic
Orthography for Lithuanian in 1864-1904
by Giedrius Subačius
Evil Spuds
by Laima ramona
Vitkauskas
Poetry:
Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas
translated by E. Novickas
Art:
M. K. Čiurlionis in Los Angeles
and Washington
by Stasys Goštautas
Rasa Prišmontienė
Reviews:
Paul Jaskunas,
Hidden,
Reviewed by Patrick Chura
June 18, 2005
Our 50 Year Anniversary Issue, Vol. 50:5, had the full 50 year index of Lituanus articles.
We have made it available on this site also.
You have a choice of formats: Cumulative
1954-2004 Index in HTML
Cumulative 1954-2004 Index in PDF
May 2005
Added to the Archives:
Our first issue, 1954 No.
1, along with 1963, 1969, 2002
Spring 2005 issue, Vol. 51:1
Articles:
In Memoriam Algirdas Landsbergis
by
Stasys Goštautas
Saying Goodbye to Algirdas
Landsbergis
by Tomas Venclova
An Unforgettable Voice
by Romualdas
Lankauskas
Czeslaw Milosz searches for Lost
Vilnius
by Vytautas Martinkus
Lithuania as Paradigm: A Central
European Destiny
by Tomaš Hoskavec
Poetry:
To the West by Jonas
Landsbergis
From Landwehrkanal to Spree by
Tomas Venclova
Art:
Millenium Park - Chicago
by
Algimantas Kezys
Reviews:
Ignotas Domeika,
Mano kelionės
[My trips], Volume I, reviewed by Romualdas Šviedrys
Roger D. Petersen,
Resistance and
Rebellion, Lessons from Eastern Europe;
Roger D.
Petersen,
Understanding Ethnic Violence, Fear, Hatred and Resentment in
Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe,
Reviewed by Algimantas Gureckas
Tailpiece:
Algirdas Landsbergis,
Angel
Vytautas O. Virkau,
Ex libris
Czeslaw Milosz
Our 50-year Anniversary (5-th issue) Vol. 50:5
Present at the Creation by Antanas Dundzila
Lituanus Cumulative 1954-2004 Index
Apr 2005
Congratulations to
the co-winners of Lituanus contest for articles commemorating
the 100 years
since the re-establishment of the free press in Lithuania
after the 1864-1904
prohibition on Lithuanian printing imposed by czarist Russia:
Prof. Alfred Bammesberger of the
Eichstaett Universitet
Prof.Giedrius Subačius of the University
of Illinois at Chicago
Their articles will appear in the 2005 issues of Lituanus.
Dec 2004 - Winter 2004 issue,
Vol. 50:4
Articles:
Flash Mobs: Art, Cyberspace and
the Sonorous Community
by Jane Tumas-Serna
Talking Through Letters
by
Daiva Markelis
Reflections about Lithuanian
Parishes
by Rev. William Wolkovich-Valkavičius
Parish Names Selected by
Lithuanian Roman Catholic Immigrants
by Rev.
William Wolkovich-Valkavičius
Poetry:
Four Portraits: Nausicaa, Calypso,
Circe, Penelope, Quasimodo The Witch; The Apple Tree
by Judita
Vaičiūnaitė, translated by M. Gražina Slavėnas
Art:
Sculptures by Juozas Zikaras
by Algimantas Kezys
REviews:
Timothy Snyder, The Reconstruction
of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999.
Reviewed by
Thomas Lane
Linas Saldukas, Lithuanian
Diaspora.
Reviewed by Thomas A. Michalski
Sep 2004 - Fall 2004 issue,
Vol. 50:3
Articles:
Sigitas Parulskis' "Three Seconds
of the Sky" for a Lover and Warrior Between Two Worlds
by Rimvydas Šilbajoris
The Slow Birth of Nation
by
Saulius Tomas Kondrotas
Facing the Other in Lithuanian
prose: Saulius Tomas Kondrotas' "TheSlow Birth of Nation"
by Dalia Cidzikaitė
Searching Elsewhere for the True Self:
Jurga Ivanauskaitė's Novel "Gone with Dreams"
by Daina Špokienė
Delving in the Nightmare of
Ričardas Gavelis' "Vilniaus Pokeris":
by E. Novickas
Art:
Aušrinė Marcinkevičiūtė-Kerr
by Nora Aušrienė
reviews:
Stephen Collishaw.
The Last Girl.
St. Martin Press, 2003.
Reviewed by Julija Šukys
Modern Love: Cezaris Graužinis'
The Taming of the Shrew.
Reviewed by Patrick Churra
Jun 2004 - Summer 2004 issue,
Vol. 50:2
-
Special Issue: Special
Women's Issue
Poetry:
Young Shoots (1952)
by Birutė
Pukelevičiūtė
Articles:
Motherhood in the Texts of
Contemporary Lithuanian Women Writers
by Solveiga
Daugirdaitė
Atemporal, Unbound, Always in
Flight Poetry of Birutė Pūkelevičiūtė
by Birutė
Ciplijauskaitė
The Feminine
by Algis Mickūnas
Art:
Sleep-Walkers IV
by Rasa
Prišmontaitė
Hymn to Vilnius
by Gražina
Didelytė
TAILPIECE:
Ex libris Marija Gimbutas by
Henrieta Vepštienė
Mar 2004 - Spring 2004 issue,
Vol. 50:1
Special Issue: Lithuanian
Constitutional Law
Articles:
The Lithuanian Constitutional
Court: Its Nature, Structure, and Position in the Lithuanian Legal Order
by Kristina Pakalnytė
On the Academic Understanding of
Legal Interpretations
by Tomas Berkmanas
Comparative Analysis of Lithuanian
Administrative Procedure
by Ligita Ramanauskas
Art:
Opening Dzilynski manuscript page of
the 1529 Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Ex Libris
by Vytautas O. Virkau
Title page of the 1602 Statute of the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Dec, 2003 - Our Winter 2003 issue,
Vol. 49:4:
Special Note from this issue:
Lituanus
is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2004.
The journal is announcing a one-time $500 prize
of the best scholarly article commemorating
the 100 years since the
re-establishment of the free press in Lithuania
after the 1864-1904
prohibition on Lithuanian printing imposed by tsarist Russia.
Rules:
1. The article must be written
in English.
2. The article must not exceed 25 pages.
3. The prize winning article will be published in Lituanus.
4. Lituanus reserves the
right to publish all submissions.
Other articles, if published, will receive an honorarium of $100.
5. The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2004.
6. Lituanus
reserves the right to delay the award if there are no quality
submissions.
7. Electronic submissions are to be sent to
editor@lituanus.org
or by mail to:
Lituanus,
47 W. Polk St. Suite 100-300, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
Editors note:
M.K. Čiurlionis the Famous Unkown
by
Stasys Goštautas
Articles:
The Spirit
by Vytautas
Landsbergis
M.K. Čiurlionis and Marianne Von
Werefkin: Their Paths and Watersheds
by Laima Laučkaitė
The Language of Radiant Love; M.K.
Čiurlionis Among Heirs to the Knight-spirit
by Radoslaw Okulicz-Kozaryn
Art:
M.K. Čiurlionis
Book reviews:
Vyt. Bakais
Breathing Free: Poems from the Lithuanian /
Gyvas atodūsis;
lietuvių poezijos vertimai. Vilnius:
Lithuanian Writers Union
Publishers, 2002.
Reviewed by E. Novickas
Sept 22, 2003 - Our Fall 2003 issue,
Vol. 49:3, is being mailed to our subscribers:
Poetry:
Hamlet by
Danutė Paulauskaitė
Siberia by
Carol Simerly
Articles:
Symphony Concerts in the Musical
Life of Lithuanians in the USA
by Danutė Petrauskaitė
Competition and Cooperation:
Managerial Values and Social Capital on the Baltic Rim
by Gundar J.
King and J. Thad Barnowe
Shifts in Early Albano-Slavic
Syllable Boundaries
by Harvey E. Mayer
Art:
Nomeda Grumada's Surfaces of
Female Form
by Algimantas Kezys
Book reviews:
Alfonsas Eidintas.
Žydai,
lietuviai ii holokaustas. Vaga, 2002 by Thomas Michalski
June 10, 2003 -We have added 1970-79
issues to the internet archive. The archive now contains our issues from 1970
through 2001.
Please note that it takes about a month for the Google search to index new
entries.
June 6, 2003 - Our Summer 2003 issue,
Vol. 49:2, being mailed to our subscribers:
Poetry:
At my Father's Ancestral Farm;
Trakai Castle; One more Attempt at Self-Definition; The Ineffable
by Al Žolynas
Articles:
Symbolist Visions: The Role of
Music in the Paintings of M.K.Čiurlionis
by Nathalie Lorand
Imagining Lithuanians, Reproducing
Americans? Nationalism, Religion, Exile: Algimantas Mackus' Poetry
by Rimas Žilinskas
Art:
Rimantė Butkuvė. Vaida Juozapaitytė,
Algimantas Kezys: Lithuanian Angels - Woodcarvings from a Digital
Perspective
New Ideas in Berlin
by Raminta
Lampsatytė
Book reviews:
An invitation to reconciliation is
out. Will anyone come?
Gudelis, Rimantas.
The Process of
Reconciliation within the Lithuanian Catholic Church: After the Soviet
Occupation
-
Romualdas Kriaučiūnas
Mar. 15, 2003 - Our Spring 2003 issue,
Vol. 49:1, being mailed to our subscribers:
Poetry:
The Bell
by Irene Guilford
Articles:
Selling Madness:
Psychopharmaceutical Companies in Lithuania. 1990-2000
by Vincent Giedraitis
Reflections of the Process of
Transition 1919-1922 and 1989-1992
by William Urban
Lithuanian in the 21st Century:
Part III
by Antanas Klimas
Art:
Marija Strasevičius
Small Artworks:
Vytautas Virkau
Book reviews:
Archives at the Diaspora Institute in
Kaunas -
William Wolkovich-Valkavičius
Guilford, Irene.
The Embrace -
Birutė Putrius Serota
Krapauskas, Virgil.
Nationalism
and Historiography: the Case of Nineteenth-Century Lithuanian
Historicism
-
Theodore R. Weeks
Stone, Daniel.
The
Polish-Lithuanian State 1386-1795 -
Virgil Krapauskas
Jan. 15, 2003 - Issues for the years 1996-2001 have been added to the archives.
Dec 28, 2002 - Our Winter 2002 issue,
Vol. 48:4, being mailed to our subscribers:
Articles:
Language Loss or Linguistic
Innovation? Evidence from American Lithuanian Disclosure
by Jolanta
Macevičiūtė Aritz
The Red Dress by Jurga
Ivanauskaitė.
Translated by Kristina Sakalavičiūtė
Lithuanian in the 21-st Century
Part II
by Antanas Klimas
Poetry:
Remembering my Past
by
Algimantas Kezys
Art:
Algimantas Kezys
Book reviews:
A Review Essay on Some Holocaust
Literature:
Sara Ginaitė-Robinsonienė,
Atminimo
knyga: Kauno žydų bendruomenė 1941-1944
Dalia Kuodytė and Rimantas Stankevičius,
eds.
Išgelbėję pasaulį ... Žydų gelbėjimas Lietuvoje.
Alfonsas Eidintas ed.
Lietuvos žydų
žudynių byla
Samuel Bak Painted in Words-A
Memoir
All
reviewed by William Wolkovich-Valkavičius
Sep 12 2002 - Our Fall 2002 issue,
Vol. 48:3, being mailed to our subscribers:
Poetry:
My Birthplace; Protect, O Most
High; Summer Nights by Maironis
One Word - Lietuvis ir Lietuvė
by Marytė Gureckaitė
Articles:
Maironis: the Poet Who Never Died
by Ona Mikaila
New Representations: The Languages
of Contemporary Lithuanian Theatre
by Jurgita Staniškytė
One Lithuanian Guy
by Kęstutis
Nakas
Lithuanian in the 21st Century:
Linguistic Snippets and Tidbits
by Antanas Klimas
Art:
Small Artworks:
Arūnas
Tarabilda
July 18, 2002 - Our Summer 2002 issue,
Vol. 48:2, has been mailed to our subscribers:
Poetry:
An Objective Log; Coherence
by
Kerry Keyes
Articles:
A Baltic Journey from Brooklyn
by Gregory Tague
The Border
Birutė Putrius
Serota
Lithuania's Campaign for NATO
Membership
by Richard Rupp
Lithuanians and Politics in
Western Pennsylvania
by Robertas Medonis
Art:
Elena Urbaitis
Book reviews:
Elena Urbaitis, Works on Paper
reviewed by Vyt Bakaitis
Vanagas Peteris, Luteranu
roksgramatas avoti: Vecaka perioda
reviewed by William R. Schmalstieg
Small Artworks:
Vytautas O. Virkau
Apr. 28, 2002 - Years 1985-1989 have been added to the archives.
Our current issue to our subscribers - Spring 2002, Vol. 48:1:
Poetry:
Poetry by Bernardas Brazdžionis
Articles:
Perspectives of a History of European Languages Giedrius Subačius
The Black Stranger Short story by Irena Mačiulytė Guilford
Economic Analysis of Law and the Lithuanian Legal System Gintarija Samajauskaitė
Looking Towards the Future, Thinking of the Past Career Influences and Recent Works of Rimas VisGirda, Catherine JacobiBook reviews:
Antanas Klimas, Kalbos puošmenos ir pabiros, reviewed by William Schmalstieg
Vytautas Šliūpas, Tėvas, kokį aš prisimenu, reviewed by William Wolkovich-Valkavičius
Jonas Šliūpas (1861-1944) - Physician-Activist-Writer: A Note William Wolkovich-Valkavičius
Ludvika Apinytė Popenhagen, Nekrošius and Lithuanian Theatre reviewed by Patrick ChuraSmall Artworks:
Petras Repšys
Vytautas O. Virkau
Feb. 17, 2002 - Years 1982-1984 have been added to the archives.
Nov. 30, 2001 - Google(TM) search has been added to the Search page.
Nov. 23, 2001 - Years 1980, 1981 are
added to the archives.
The Literature index has been separated into Original Works and Literary
Analysis.
The previous entries in History that were specific documents have been moved to
their own section.
Apr. 2, 2001 - Site started with issues from 1990-1995