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Lithuania: Still time to see a photo exhibition on Lithuanian synagogues

If you’re in Lithuania — there is still time to see “Back to Shul,” an exhibition of photographs of Lithuanian synagogues by the British photographer Richard Schofield, the founder and creative director of the International Centre for Litvak Photography. The … continue reading →

For International Women’s Day: Women Remembered in Jewish Ritual Art

Radauti, Romania: women’s gravestones with candlesticks   We’re marking March 8 — International Women’s Day — by saluting the way Jewish women are remembered in visual terms: in this case, the way women are portrayed in Jewish funerary art. Jewish … continue reading →

Three Books of Note: the Ghetto in Global History; and Synagogue Architecture — in the Islamic World and in Central Europe

We’d like to note three recently published books that will be of interest to our readers. They deal with synagogue architecture in Central Europe and the Islamic World, and with the history of the Ghetto: — Synagogues in the Islamic … continue reading →