{"id":3628,"date":"2023-07-31T11:04:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T09:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2023-07-31T11:04:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T09:04:27","slug":"the-panevezys-esperanto-club-celebrated-a-century-of-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gvf.lt\/en\/2023\/07\/31\/the-panevezys-esperanto-club-celebrated-a-century-of-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Panev\u0117\u017eys Esperanto Club celebrated a century of activity"},"content":{"rendered":"

The event was attended by Gennady Kofman, chairman of the Jewish community of Panev\u0117\u017eys, who on behalf of Faina Kukliansky, the chairwoman of the Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) community, congratulated all those present and wished success in the work of the congress. In his speech, G. Kofman also reviewed and presented the book “Looking into the past: the history and legacy of the Jews of Panev\u0117\u017eys”. It was recalled that the first Esperantists in Panev\u0117\u017eys were Jews and their important contribution to Esperanto activities was noted.<\/p>\n

Vida Kulikauskien\u0117, the president of Panev\u0117\u017eys Esperanto Club “Revo”, introduced a brief history of the 100th anniversary of the Panev\u0117\u017eys Esperanto Club. She said that Aleksandras Dambrauskas (Adomas Jak\u0161tas), who is considered the pioneer of the Esperanto language in Lithuania, could have given the very beginning.<\/p>\n

In 1887, Ludwig Lazar Zamenhof published the first book about the international language “International Language: Introduction and Complete Textbook”. Followers of this language soon appeared in Lithuania as well.<\/p>\n

V. Kulikauskien\u0117 gave a detailed overview of the interwar period, in which Jewish people were particularly active. She said that the first society was founded in 1923, and the longest at the helm of the Panev\u0117\u017eys Esperanto Society was Jok\u016bbas Kanas, who was elected chairman of the Society’s board in 1932 and led the Society until his death in 1941.<\/p>\n

The consequences of World War II for the Esperanto movement and activities in the post-war period were recalled. It was noted that the war took the lives of many Panev\u0117\u017eys Esperantists, and the society itself was banned.<\/p>\n

In Panev\u0117\u017eys, this language began to recover only in 1956, thanks to the Esperantist Juozas Kazlauskas, who, having gathered the remaining pre-war Esperantists, devoted his main efforts to teaching the language.<\/p>\n

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Participants of the Panev\u0117\u017eys Esperanto Club with their flag in 1930. Above is the daughter of Rabbi Abraham Grinberg, Anni Grinberg, the only survivor of the Grinberg family during the Holocaust \/ Photo \u00a9 Panev\u0117\u017eys Jewish Community.<\/p>\n

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Panev\u0117\u017eys Esperanto Club in historical photos \/ Photo \u00a9 Panev\u0117\u017eys Jewish Community.<\/p>\n

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