Jewish life Vilna - 1939

- In days gone by a carter such as this would've been reading a chapter of the Mishnah, today he reads a newspaper. -
איי איי איי

By 1939 Vilna was mostly secular, as is evident from most of the people in the film, although the filmmaker was not religious. Talk of the "Jerusalem of Lithuania" was mostly nostalgic, as unfortunately most of Vilna was not studying the Talmud anymore.