Virtual Shtetl has run a troubling article by Adam Dylewski about the uncertain, and apparently bleak, future of the Regional Museum housed in the thick-walled, 17th-century former synagogue in Łęczna, Poland — long recognized as one of the best solutions for … continue reading →
What looks as if it will be a fascinating conference takes place in Wroclaw, Poland next month, October 24-26. Called Cemeteries in the Social Space, it focuses on issues regarding all sorts of cemeteries (in Poland) in general. It will … continue reading →
A clean-up operation in the old Jewish cemetery in Narew, southeast of Bialystok in eastern Poland near the border with Belarus, will take place Sept. 20, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Virtual Shtetl reports that the meeting place for volunteers … continue reading →
There are plenty of episodes of vandalism of Jewish sites, and we do not tend to report on every one of them — particularly not when the vandals’ tool is spray paint. But this episode in Poland strikes a … continue reading →
We are happy to forward this appeal from the Quincentennial Foundation Jewish Museum of Istanbul regarding its campaign to digitize the records of the Turkish Jewish community. The museum opened in 2001 in the Zulfaris Synagogue, which was built in 1823 on the … continue reading →
