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Preserving the Jewish Graves of Old Vilna
Living cemeteries and dead ones.
Prague’s Jewish cemetery, as Weingrad observes, holds a crucial place in the history of anti-Semitic fantasy: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was largely plagiarized from a scene set there in an 1868 novel. But cemeteries have also played an important role in the Jewish imagination, as well as in the study of Jewish history. In recent years, the scholar Shnayer Leiman has made a systematic study of the gravestones in the old Jewish cemetery of Vilna (Vilnius). He writes:
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