JHE contributor Michele Migliori recently took part in the clean up of a neglected Jewish cemetery in Tállya, a wine-making village in a remote part of Hungary.
In his Have Your Say personal essay, “Cleaning up a Jewish Cemetery: Performing a Mitzvah but Questioning the Process,” he writes about the experience — and also about uncomfortable questions that can crop up even when performing a mitzvah.
“It’s true that in Tállya we performed a mitzvah, and the initiative was carried out in an intense spirit of good will,” he writes, “but I believe that doing something as important as restoring a Jewish cemetery, and therefore also restoring its memory, needs more than good will.”
Click here to read his Have Your Say
