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With the president: Professor Antony Polonsky wearing the Cross of the Officer of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. Photo: Džoja Barysaitė
VILNIUS Professor Antony Polonsky of Brandeis University, one of the world’s most accomplished scholars of Polish-Jewish history and the long time editor of the seminal Polish Jewish history series Polin, was at the Lithuanian president’s palace today to receive from her excellency’s hands the prestigious Cross of the Officer of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. The award, pinned on his chest by Preisdent Dalia Grybauskaitė, was not for a lifetime of sterling work on Polish Jewish history, but it seemed, for several years’ staunch and perhaps somewhat naive loyalty to the public relations program of the current government of Lihtuania. The presidential press release, reported in English by Baltic News Service (BNS), put it this way:
“in recognition of his merits to the Republic of Lithuania and the promotion of Lithuania’s name in the world.” Continue reading
On January 15th, the Lietuvos rytas website (Lrytas.lt) published 
