Sergey Kanovich, at The Blogs

Jul 22, 2021, 1:10 AM

Why my grandfather was not invited to join LAF

I always find it difficult to talk about the subject of the Holocaust in Lithuania. And not just talk about it — it is difficult for me to think about it, too. It is the biggest crime ever committed...

Apr 30, 2019, 9:21 PM

The Murdered Don’t Vote

They don't have a voice. Although they do, as my father says, speak to us ceaselessly. From the pits by the forest. Marked and unmarked. Spruced up and covered with garbage. They engage us and our conscience. A handful...

Apr 28, 2019, 3:11 PM

Dream about the Vanished Jerusalem

The words below were written by my beloved father, Grigory Kanovich (pictured above), the renowned author of 11 novels, which together form a saga, and the former chair of Jewish community of Lithuania. -- It seems that I dreamed about it when...

Apr 14, 2019, 12:48 PM

On Historical Begging

Beggars ask for all sorts of things -- money, drugs, clothes. The average passer-by looks at the beggar trying to determine if he really is in need, and often passers-by pretend they haven’t seen him. There is a category of...

Feb 3, 2019, 12:26 PM

Once There Lived Aizik Kanovich

The sky was bright blue. “So clear, almost as clear as the water from the well in the yard of our house in Jonava,” thought Aizik and closed his eyes again. A few soft snowflakes fell from the blue...

Jan 29, 2019, 6:47 PM

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Dancing La Cumparsita with Frida

A screenshot from Saulius Beržinis documentary "Petrified Time"

She sighed, looking somewhere far off in the distance: 'How long I have been waiting for you. How very long. All my life.'

About Me

Sergey Kanovich is Vilnius born poet and essayist founder of two NGO's - Litvak cemetery catalogue Maceva and Seduva Jewish Memorial Fund and the author of idea of the Museum of Lost Shtetl. Sergey currently is Project Manager of Lost Shtetl. In February 2018 for his efforts in preserving Litvak heritage the President of Lithuania awarded him with medal “For Merits To Lithuania”. Sergey holds a BA from Vilnius State University, faculty of philology

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