The “Jewish Värmland” temporary exhibition, a collaboration between the Värmland Museum and the Swedish Jewish Museum in Stockholm, explores Jewish life and history in the Värmland County, in west-central Sweden.
One of the main attractions of the exhibition will be the reconstruction of the synagogue of Karlstad, the county’s capital, a wooden structure built in 1899 and demolished in 1961.
Although there is no longer an active Jewish community in the county, a testament to the local Jewish life and history is the small, well kept Jewish cemetery, which can be visited in 3D by clicking here. The Jewish cemetery was opened in the late 1890s.
The Sephardic Museum of Toledo is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a series of lectures focused on the museum’s history and that of the 14th-century building where it is hosted: the El Tránsito Synagogue.
Monthly lectures, from October to February, will be held at the Royal Foundation of Toledo auditorium and the Prayer Hall of the Sephardic Museum, offering insights into the synagogue’s past and the museum’s legacy from various expert perspectives.
In this talk, historians Felipe Vidales, Ángel Fuentes, and Cristina Expósito will discuss the Synagogue of El Tránsito.
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