We are used to pained and evocative — even shocked and/or outraged — descriptions of abandoned Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe. In an article this week, the Los Angeles Times echoes these sentiments to describe an abandoned Jewish cemetery in East … continue reading →
The former Greenbank Drive Synagogue in Liverpool, England, is to receive £70,000 in rescue funding from English Heritage and the Liverpool city council so that the Grade II listed building, which has been on the “English Heritage at Risk” … continue reading →
Dmitro Panair has published a lengthy online article on the historic Jewish cemetery in Sataniv, Ukraine, focusing on the iconography of the stone carving and illustrated with lots of images. The article, on the texty.org.ua web site, is in … continue reading →
A long-abandoned 300-year-old Jewish cemetery, the largest in the Netherlands, will be open to the public one Sunday a month into November, thanks to restoration efforts by local Jewish and Moroccan young people. JTA quotes Marcel Mock, the spokesperson for the … continue reading →
Photo from Museum web site As we anticipated in an earlier post, the Museum of Mazovian Jews (Muzeum Zydow Mazowieckich) has opened in the restored synagogue in Plock, Poland. It’s inauguration took place Thursday and the Museum is open … continue reading →
