admin The Media for Social Jewish organization is organizing a trip this summer for volunteers to help clean up the historic Old Sephardi Jewish cemetery in Sarajevo. Founded in 1630, the cemetery today includes about 3,800 grave and lies on … continue reading →
The distinctive 19th century synagogue in the southern Polish town of Dabrowska Tarnowska will be reopened this spring as a culture center after a four-year restoration project. The restoration conserves the unique arcaded front. Virtual Shtetl quotes Polish television … continue reading →
In the Jewish Review of Books, David Gelernter writes about the architecture of two strikingly different but surprisingly similar synagogues: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Beth Shalom in suburban Philadelphia, built in the 1950s, and the wooden synagogue in Gwozdziec, now … continue reading →
The exhibition Mazevot in Everyday Use has been on at the National Museum of History in Minsk, Belarus since early February and closes Feb. 23. It showcases photographs by the Polish photographer Łukasz Baksik, documenting the various — inappropriate — … continue reading →
The February 2012 Newsletter of Lo-Tishkach, the European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, is out and contains a compendium of valuable information from the news archive of the organization’s web site. Highlights include: — Lo Tishkach to Expand Surveys into Poland … continue reading →
