Article: Vanished city: Vilna now can only be found in echoes and glimpses.

Byline: Thomas Swick

VILNIUS, Lithuania _ Daniel was waiting in the hotel lobby when I stepped off the elevator _ a stocky, pleasant-looking young man with short, fair hair. His father, he said, was busy today, so he had been enlisted to give me a tour of Jewish Vilnius.

I had been in the Lithuanian capital for several days. Occasionally I would see hints of a vanished world (the city known as Vilna): a Star of David embedded in a facade, a plaque on a building informing that Jascha Heifetz had studied inside. But that was it: relics and echoes. I wandered the streets of the old Jewish quarter, now furnished with elegant restaurants and modern galleries. ...

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