jhe The Jewish heritage sites in Pesaro, on Italy’s Adriatic coast, will be opened to visitors from now until the end of September, but — as in previous years — only on one afternoon a week. Sites include the old Jewish quarter, … continue reading →
Christian Herrmann, on his Vanished World blog, reports on remnants of a Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsi (Czernowitz) Ukraine that predates the vast cemetery that still exists there. Today’s Jewish cemetery was established in 1866. In the same year the old … continue reading →
The complete results of the documentation of the Weissensee Jewish cemetery in Berlin have been published as 115.628 Berliners. The Weißensee Jewish Cemetery – Documentation of the Comprehensive Survey of the Burial Sites (Berlin, 2013). The entire text is provided in … continue reading →
The sociologist Anna Susak from the Center for Urban History in L’viv gives a richly fascinating talk on how people in L’viv regard Jewish heritage, history and culture in the city. She was speaking in Riga, Latvia, at the Second International … continue reading →
A new permanent exhibit about the Holocaust and Jews opened this week at Auschwitz. Called “Shoah” and located in the Block 27 barracks, it replaces the woefully outdated exhibit that had been installed there in 1967 — and which had … continue reading →
