V. Petronis |  R. Miknys  |  T. Bairašauskaitė  |  R. Griškaitė  |  A. Prašmantaitė  |  A. Katilius  |  D. Staliūnas I J.Paškauskas | L.Pocius I  O. Mastianica  |  V. Žaltauskaitė  |  G. Malinauskaitė  | G. Subačius | V. Nikšaitė | J. Andriejauskienė | S. Valiūnaitė | T. Krutulys |

PhD students: I. Šapokienė | J. Pukėnas |

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Saulė Valiūnaitė

Doctor of Humanities, Researcher

In 2025, she defended her dissertation called “Yiddishist Women and Their Contribution to the Formation and Preservation of Secular Jewishness in Interwar Vilnius” at Vilnius University. Since 2025, she has been working as a researcher at the Department of 19th Century History of the Institute of Lithuanian History.

Orcid: 0009-0005-6794-6903
Main areas of research interests

• History of Vilnius Jews in the 19th-20th centuries
• Jewish gender studies
• Political and cultural history of Yiddishism

Most important scientific publications

Compiled books

• Avrom Sutzkever. From the Vilnius Ghetto to Nuremberg. Memoirs and testimony. Compiled by Justin D. Cammy and Saulė Valiūnaitė, translated from Yiddish and English by Saulė Valiūnaitė. Vilnius: Hubris, 2024.
• Zeligas Kalmanovičius. Hope Is Stronger Than Life. Vilnius Ghetto Diary. Compiled by Saulė Valiūnaitė and Stanislovas Stasiulis, translated from Hebrew by Olga Lempert. Vilnius: Vilnius Gaon Museum of Jewish History, 2021. The diary is also published in a separate edition in English: Zelig Kalmanovich. Hope Is Stronger Than Life. Vilnius Ghetto Diary. Compiled by S. Valiūnaitė, S. Stasiulis, translated from Hebrew by Olga Lempert. Vilnius: Vilnius Gaon Museum of Jewish History, 2021.

Other scholarly publications

• Saulė Valiūnaitė, “Yiddishist School as an Incubator of Jewishness, The Case of Vilnius’ Women Educators,” in Vilnius and its Communities. A Look at the 700-Year History of the City. Compiled by Mindaugas Klovas, Jolita Sarcevičienė, Jurgita Verbickienė, Vilnius: Lithuanian Institute of History, 2025, 440–464.
• Saulė Valiūnaitė, “Voicing female experience in Vilne. The case of Dveira Dines,” in Studia Judaica 27, no. 2 (54) (2024): 413–442.
• Review of Kenneth B. Moss, An Unchosen People. Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland, in Lithuanian Historical Studies 27:1 (2023): 244–252.
• Saulė Valiūnaitė, “Jewish Culture in the First Half of the 20th Century in Vilnius. Participant or Recluse?” in Istorija 122, no. 2 (2021): 30–47.
• Saulė Valiūnaitė. “Zelig Kalmanovich: Creator of Modern Jewish Culture and Keeper of Traditions,” in Zelig Kalmanovich, Hope Is Stronger Than Life. Vilnius Ghetto Diary, 16–29. English version of the text: “Zelig Kalmanovich: Creator of Modern Jewish Culture and Keeper of Traditions,” in Zelig Kalmanovich, Hope Is Stronger Than Life, 12–24.

Contacts
saule.valiunaite@gmail.com; saule.valiunaite@istorija.lt