View Larger Map An ambitious, international “Shtetl Routes” tourism itinerary through a score or more of towns in the Poland-Belarus-Ukraine border region is under development with a more than €400,000 grant from the European Union’s Cross-border Cooperation Programme Poland-Belarus-Ukraine … continue reading →
JHE coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber has written an article in Tablet Magazine about the debate surrounding plans for a controversial new government-sponsored Holocaust memorial museum slated to be opened in April in a long-disused train station. She writes about “the powerful … continue reading →
PE NUN, An exhibition of photographs by Maciej Sztorc of gravestones in 10 neglected Jewish cemeteries in southeastern Poland around Lublin, opened January 9 and will run until January 30 at the Gallery NN in Lublin, a project of the … continue reading →
Photo © Jasna Ciric Jasna Ciric, the president of the Jewish community in Niš, Serbia, writes that the town’s tourism organization has put up a number of signs pointing the way to the historic Jewish cemetery, putting it on par with … continue reading →
Over the past six months, the Leo Baeck Institute has conducted a survey of Jewish-related archives in Bukovina and Transylvania, two formerly German-speaking regions of Romania. The launch event for the survey’s online catalogue will take place at the Center … continue reading →
