The Jewish cemetery in the village of Derechin near Zelva in Belarus has been damaged by workers cutting down trees and letting them fall on the stones, reports the Russian online publication “Charter ’97.”
The report says the damage was carried out by an agricultural cooperative “under the guise of ‘improvement'” of the cemetery. (The Belarus Jewish Heritage Research Group had already reported the long-neglected cemetery as “ruined.”)
The Ehemalige Jüdische Mädchenschule, a former Jewish girls’ school in Berlin, has been transformed and reopened as an arts and dining center — one that includes exhibition spaces, galleries, and even a kosher restaurant that offers Shabbat meals. … continue reading →
After years of neglect, the dilapidated 19th-century synagogue building in the town of Koronowo in north-central Poland may be preserved and restored for use as a cultural center. In the local newspaper Gazeta Pomorska, Adam Lewandowski writes that the … continue reading →
The Micropolitics of Small Town Life in Eastern Europe, University of Illinois, March 2013 Call for Papers On behalf of the Program in Jewish Culture and Society and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center of the University of Illinois … continue reading →
Hoop Lane cemetery, one of London’s oldest Jewish burial places (it opened in 1897), will begin offering tours late this month featuring the graves of celebrities buried there. As the Jewish Chronicle reports: Cellist Jacqueline du Pre, rabbis Leo … continue reading →
