Ecco il sommario settimanale in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici in Europa. Polonia: la commissione rabbinica per i cimiteri protesta contro la costruzione di una strada che passa per il cimitero ebraico di Jasło … continue reading →
Today, March 8, is marked around the world as International Women’s Day. In past years, we have marked the day with photo essays showing how women have been represented in Jewish art. (Click HERE for 2019 and HERE for 2018.) … continue reading →
Poland’s Rabbinical Commission on Cemetery Affairs decried what it called the “conscious and merciless destruction of the Jewish cemetery” in the southern town of Jasło, by the construction of a road through the cemetery territory. It said at least eight … continue reading →
The restoration of the former synagogue in the town of Jirkov, in northwest Czech Republic near the German border, is under way. As we reported in July, the municipality purchased the dilapidated building in 2016 with the aim of restoring … continue reading →
Following the closure of a year-long standoff over the directorship of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, the museum’s new director, Zygmunt Stępiński, begins a three-year term in the post today, March 1. Stępiński, who became Deputy … continue reading →
