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Romania: Watch a video showing progress in the restoration of the long-ruined Ashkenazic Great Synagogue in Constanța

Restoration work  on the long-ruined Ashkenazic Great Synagogue in the Black Sea port of Constanța is progressing apace. Watch a TV News report — it’s in Romanian, but the images tell the story.   The synagogue was designed in the … continue reading →

Poland: The sculptural pre WW2 tombs by the artist Abraham Ostrzega in Warsaw’s Okopowa Jewish Cemetery. Ostrzega was murdered in Treblinka

Ostrzega's Mausoleum of the Three Writers

Jewish cemeteries in Europe range from tiny village graveyards to sprawling city necropolises. Many of the larger urban cemeteries are noted for their elaborate family tombs — and also for monuments and mausolea designed by leading sculptors and architects. In … continue reading →

Call for Applications: 4-year President’s Fellowship PhD scholarship at the Department of Jewish Art, Bar Ilan University

Lion on the ceiling of the synagogue in Siret, Romania

There is still time to apply for the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University’s prestigious President’s Fellowship beginning in the spring semester of the 2025-6 academic year. Deadline for submission is June 13. The four-year fellowship covers tuition and … continue reading →

Italy: Rome’s Tempio Maggiore to undergo an innovative acoustic improvement project aimed at enriching the experience of collective prayer.

Looking into the dome of the Tempio Maggiore

The monumental Tempio Maggiore, or Great Synagogue, in Rome is to undergo an innovative acoustic improvement project aimed at enriching the experience of collective prayer. The initiative seeks to restore “the full intensity and clarity of collective prayer in a … continue reading →