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Experts carrying out restoration work on the apse and elaborate main altarpiece of the Santa Maria la Blanca church in Seville have identified the site, long concealed by the altar, where the Ark had stood ...
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Spain: Remains of the medieval synagogue discovered during restoration of the main altarpiece in the Santa Maria la Blanca church in Seville
Experts carrying out restoration work on the apse and elaborate main altarpiece of the Santa Maria la Blanca church in Seville have identified the site, long concealed by the altar,
JHE in italiano: sommario settimanale
Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici Pubblicata la newsletter primaverile di JHE! 10 maggio 2024 Vi siete persi qualcosa su JHE
JHE Newsletter — Spring edition. Catch up with what you might have missed
Our monthly Newsletter – Spring edition — is out today. Catch up with what you might have missed. News, views, and insights from Poland, Romania the UK, Lithuania, Germany, Austria,
Yom haShoah 2024: We remember the names. (Watch our video of Holocaust Memorial Monuments that personalize the victims)
Today is Yom haShoah, Israel and the Jewish world’s annual day of remembrance of the Holocaust. We remember the names. We repost here our video about Holocaust Monuments that personalize
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Long(er) Reads Cemeteries: New Monuments Mark Jewish Cemeteries Across Ukraine — Even in Wartime
There are more than 1,300 Jewish cemeteries in Ukraine, most unprotected, desecrated, built over, or bare plots whose matzevot were uprooted by the Nazis or under the Soviets. Since 2021, the United Jewish Community of Ukraine (UJCU) has run a project to place simple memorials at Jewish cemeteries all over the country. To date, more than 120 have been installed, many even in the two years since Russia’s invasion sparked the ongoing war. The project is coordinated by Vitalii Kamozin, the UJCU’s Chief Operating Officer. In this essay, Kamozin describes the project, with comments also by Milton Koch, who has been independently organizing a cemetery marker in his ancestral village.