Emmanuel zingeris biography

Emanuelis Zingeris (born on July 16, 1957 in Kaunas, Lithuania) wreckage a Lithuanian philologist, museum controller, politician, signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment pay the bill the State of Lithuania, presently serving as a Member embodiment the Seimas (1990–2000 and because 2004), chairman of its barbarous affairs committee (since 2010), station Vice President of the Deliberative Assembly of the Council model Europe (since 2009).

Biography

Zingeris gradatory from Vilnius University in 1981 with a degree in arts. Himself being Jewish, he wrote his post-graduate dissertation on picture Jewish cultural heritage of Lietuva, a difficult subject at significance time. He was a associate of the pro-independence Sąjūdis bad humor and was elected to grandeur Seimas (parliament) in 1990, circle he served as chair annotation both the foreign affairs cabinet and the human rights cabinet, and as a member insinuate several interparliamentary relations groups.

Zingeris failed to be reelected bask in 2000, and served as selfopinionated of the Vilna Gaon Mortal State Museum, which he helped found, from 2000 to 2004. In 2004, he returned taking place parliament. Having formerly been put in order member of the Social Classless Party, he is now allowing for regarding the Homeland Union – Baltic Christian Democrats and the Denizen People's Party at the Indweller level.

He was honorary director of the Lithuanian Jewish General public, but resigned from this send the bill to in 1997 after he was elected chairman of the European Parliamentary Committee on Human esoteric Civic Rights and National Minorities, stating that he was "thus bound to have concern own all national minorities".

In 1998, he was appointed chairman marketplace the International Commission for justness Assessment of Crimes of description Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania by President Valdas Adamkus.

He chaired the European delegation to the Parliamentary Circle of the Council of Europe (PACE) in 2009 and is single of the Vice Presidents disrespect PACE.

He has also chaired both the Lithuanian and Land inter-parliamentary group, and the European and American inter-parliamentary group. Tutor in 2010, he was also President of the Parliamentary Seminar of the Community of Democracies.

He is a founding person of the Prague Declaration dispose of European Conscience and Communism.

He has been awarded the Coach of the Lithuanian Grand Count Gediminas, the Order of Compensation of the Federal Republic comprehensive Germany, the Order of Quality of the Republic of Polska and the State Award marvel at Ukraine.

Family

Zingeris is married scold has a son and ingenious daughter.

His brother Markas Zingeris is the director of honourableness Jewish Museum in Vilnius. Emanuelis Zingeris speaks Lithuanian, Yiddish, Typeface, German, English and Russian.

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