admin Conference in L’viv in November 2012: “The Ukrainian and Jewish Artistic and Architectural Milieus of Lwów/Lemberg/Lviv: From Ausgleich to the Holocaust.” Call for Papers — Deadline April 1, 2012 From the organizers: The conference focuses on artists and architects … continue reading →
The Jewish cemetery in the village of Derechin near Zelva in Belarus has been damaged by workers cutting down trees and letting them fall on the stones, reports the Russian online publication “Charter ’97.”
The report says the damage was carried out by an agricultural cooperative “under the guise of ‘improvement'” of the cemetery. (The Belarus Jewish Heritage Research Group had already reported the long-neglected cemetery as “ruined.”)
The Ehemalige Jüdische Mädchenschule, a former Jewish girls’ school in Berlin, has been transformed and reopened as an arts and dining center — one that includes exhibition spaces, galleries, and even a kosher restaurant that offers Shabbat meals. … continue reading →
After years of neglect, the dilapidated 19th-century synagogue building in the town of Koronowo in north-central Poland may be preserved and restored for use as a cultural center. In the local newspaper Gazeta Pomorska, Adam Lewandowski writes that the … continue reading →
The Micropolitics of Small Town Life in Eastern Europe, University of Illinois, March 2013 Call for Papers On behalf of the Program in Jewish Culture and Society and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center of the University of Illinois … continue reading →
