We have posted in the past about the recovery of fragments of Jewish headstones in the Ukrainian town of Rohatyn, and efforts by the Rohatyn Jewish heritage project to return them to the sites of the desecrated Jewish cemeteries there and create … continue reading →
Virtual Shtetl has added more than 200 archival photographs from the collections of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences to its website. Most of them are of pre-World War II synagogues and their interiors and have … continue reading →
Much has been going on in Lithuania regarding Jewish heritage, and we will be posting on various issues and developments in the coming days. Ruta Anulyte, of the Maceva Lithuania Jewish Cemetery Project, has sent us photos of two Jewish … continue reading →
We would like to signal an extraordinary four-part series of videos put together by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter based on the collections of the Jewish author, playwright and researcher S. An-sky, who led a series of ethnographic expeditions in 1912-1914 … continue reading →
Significant progress has been made in the painstaking, but long-stalled, restoration of the 17th Century Great Synagogue in Iaşi, Romania. The scaffolding that had shrouded the building since 2005 has come down, revealing the restored exterior (which leaves the stone … continue reading →
