A High Court Judge has at least temporarily blocked the development into apartments of the Grade II-listed United Hebrew Synagogue in the seaside resort town of Blackpool, England. The Blackpool Gazette writes that the Blackpool Borough Council had “challenged a … continue reading →
Berlin’s Weissensee Jewish cemetery, covering 42 hectares and with some 115,000 burials one of the largest in Europe, is something of a nature preserve, home to a remarkably vast variety of plant and animal life, a wide-ranging survey shows. The … continue reading →
As JHE readers know, we have a Facebook page and a Twitter feed — @JewishHtgEurope, where you can follow our news posts (and more). We now have another social media platform — Instagram, where we will be posting pictures of … continue reading →
JHE friends Jay and Marla Raucher Osborn, of the Rohatyn Jewish Heritage project and Gesher Galicia, recently joined other volunteers for two days of a three-day Jewish cemetery clearing and cleaning project in Nasielsk, Poland, north of Warsaw. For them … continue reading →
Witold Wrzosiński is the co-founder and co-director of the Foundation for Documentation of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland. Currently, with a grant from the Polish Ministry of Culture, he is writing a Field Guide to Jewish Cemeteries, mainly aimed at … continue reading →
