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Henry Abramson, a historian of East European Jewry, recently made a pilgrimage similar to Shay’s—although not to visit the grave of a famed rabbi or to participate in a communal rite. Rather, he traveled to the tiny Lithuanian shtetl of Simnas, which his forbears left a century ago. (Video, 22 minutes.)
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A Historian Returns to His Grandmother’s Shtetl
Simnas, Lithuania—and its empty synagogue.