Poland’s Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz has dismissed Monika Krawczyk as Director of the Jewish Historical Institute (ZIH) and appointed Dr. Michał Trębacz as Acting Director. An announcement on the Ministry’s web site March 19 said the … continue reading →
A new online (and paper) resource focuses on the Jewish heritage of Puglia (Apulia) — the region on the heel of the Italian boot, where Jews lived from ancient times until their expulsion in the 16th century. Only a handful … continue reading →
A former synagogue in the town of Prostĕjov is for sale, for a bit more than €210,000. The synagogue, listed as a cultural monument, dates from around 1836. It served as a bet midrash and then the town’s main synagogue … continue reading →
The Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives (Milev) has recently uploaded a fascinating new resource — the photographic archives of Lajos Erdélyi, a Holocaust survivor from Transylvania who as a journalist and photographer was a pioneer in the post-Holocaust documentation of … continue reading →
Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici Polonia: è venuto a mancare Herman Storick (1929-2024), discendente americano di ebrei polacchi, che ha lavorato per salvare il cimitero ebraico nel suo villaggio ancestrale, … continue reading →
