Samuel D. Gruber has written up a report on the conference held back in September about how to commemorate the site of the destroyed Great Synagogue in Vilnius. The conference September 4-5 was organized by the nonprofit entity “Jerusalem … continue reading →
The Center for Urban History in Lviv has posted an interactive online walking tour of Jewish Lviv that uses maps, photographs and archival material, video, and text to tell the story of places and people, and also to … continue reading →
The Call for Papers is now open for the 2018 annual conference of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) which will be held in Warsaw in August 2018. The deadline is December 31. The conference will be … continue reading →
UPDATE: Bulgarian’s Jewish community has formally transferred ownership of the ruined synagogue in Vidin, on the Danube River, to the municipality, lending hope that restoration of the building and its conversion into a cultural center might begin. The transfer … continue reading →
The Bente Kahan Foundation has begun to restore the more than century-old mikveh in Wrocław, Poland as both a functioning ritual bath and space for a permanent exhibition dedicated to the narrative of the Jewish lIfe cycle. The mikveh … continue reading →
