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Slovakia: Volunteers in face masks clean & restore Jewish cemeteries in northern Slovakia
The Coronavirus crisis closed down normal Jewish community activity but in northern Slovakia it has allowed time for intensified efforts by face mask-wearing volunteers to clear and clean up Jewish
JHE in italiano — Sommario 18-22 maggio
Ecco il sommario settimanale in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici in Europa. Repubblica Ceca e Slovacchia: la restaurazione dei cimiteri ebraici di Holešov
CZ/SK: Jewish Cemetery restoration in Holešov and Námestovo
Cemetery work continues in Slovakia — where a memorial has been created at the recently restored Námestovo Jewish cemetery, and in the Czech Republic — where an entry structure has
Hungary: Restoration work on the former synagogue in the Danube-side village of Apostag, listed as a national monument and now used as a culture center, nearly completed
Restoration work on the former synagogue of Apostag, a Danube-side village 80 km south of Budapest, is nearly complete. The building – listed as a national monument and now used
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Powerful Papercuts: A Remarkable Online Exhibition of Monika Krajewska’s “Burning” Cycle, a requiem for the Jewish world destroyed in the Shoah
We are privileged to host this online exhibition of work by the artist Monika Krajewska. They are drawn from her extraordinary cycle of papercuts called “Burning” — her requiem, she writes, “for the synagogues and ceremonial objects destroyed together [in the Shoah] with the communities that created and cherished them. If even synagogues and cemeteries were doomed, what was the fate of Torah scrolls, candelabra, books and fragile papercuts? Only slivers survived.”
Krajewska has been a pioneer in researching and documenting Jewish heritage in Poland. She employs the symbolism and iconography found on gravestones and in synagogues in her contemporary interpretation of the traditional Jewish papercut form.
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