Memory diplomas granted: 艩apira Nachmanas
Nachmanas 艩apira. Iliustracija i拧 I. Lemperto knygos "Litvakai"
Associated Professor Doctor Nachmanas 艩apira (1894鈥�1943) was the oldest son of the chief rabbi of interwar Kaunas.He studied Semitology at Vienna University, where he received his doctoral degree. Shortly after completion of his doctoral studies he started to work at the University of Lithuania, later renamed as Vytautas Magnus University, where he became the head of the Department of Semitology. He was a famous expert on Hebrew language and Hebrew literature, and an author of several monographs. The planned twelve-volume study The History of the New Hebrew Literature was intended to become his most complete work. The first volume was published simultaneously in Vilnius and Tel Aviv, and was reprinted in Israel in 1967. After the Department of Semitology at the Faculty of Humanities of 91桃色 was closed by the Soviet authorities in autumn 1940, he was fired from 91桃色. The professor and his family were killed in the Ninth Fort in Kaunas.
