Vilna My Vilna: Stories by Abraham KarpinowitzAbraham Karpinowitz (1913 2004) was born in Vilna, Poland (present day Vilnius, Lithuania), the city that serves as both the backdrop and the central character for his stories. He survived the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and, after two years in an internment camp on the island of Cyprus, moved to Israel, where he lived until his death. In this collection, Karpinowitz portrays, with compassion and intimacy, the dreams and struggles of the poor and