jhe Photo © Jasna Ciric Jasna Ciric, the president of the Jewish community in Niš, Serbia, writes that the town’s tourism organization has put up a number of signs pointing the way to the historic Jewish cemetery, putting it on par with … continue reading →
Over the past six months, the Leo Baeck Institute has conducted a survey of Jewish-related archives in Bukovina and Transylvania, two formerly German-speaking regions of Romania. The launch event for the survey’s online catalogue will take place at the Center … continue reading →
The Low Country Digital Library at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, has uploaded 430 postcards of central and eastern European synagogues from the Rabbi William A. Rosenthall Collection of Judaica, which is held at the College. Rosenthall was the rabbi at … continue reading →
3D scanners are being used successfully to make digital documentation of weathered inscriptions. Leonard Rutgers, of Utrecht University, has been using 3d imaging technology to enable Hebrew inscriptions from an early medieval Jewish cemetery at Venosa, in southern Italy, … continue reading →
The restoration of the Victorian Moorish style Bradford Reform Synagogue in England, should soon be started in earnest, following receipt of the first tranche of a £109,000 lottery grant toward restoration of the Grade II listed building. The red-and-cream striped synagogue, built in … continue reading →
