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Restoration work on the long-ruined Jewish cemetery in Štip, in eastern Macedonia, is being completed, the Macedonian Information Agency (MIA) reports. It says the work has been carried out by the city museum and Bureau for Preservation of Monuments … continue reading →
MACEVA, the Lithuanian Jewish cemetery catalogue, has published a report providing an overview of its activities in 2015 — including documentation of cemeteries, digitization of photographs of headstones, cemetery clean-up workshops and other activities. Highlights include: — an international two-week … continue reading →
The Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow has launched a competition asking people to send in photos on contemporary Jewish life in Poland, for inclusion in the museum’s exhibition “Traces of Memory,” which features photographs by the museum’s founder, the … continue reading →
Italy’s culture minister has announced a €25 million grant to enable the completion of the national Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS), under development in Ferrara. The grant is part of a €1 billion package of state … continue reading →
On the occasion of his visit Tuesday (April 5) to the newly fenced Jewish cemetery in Frampol, southeastern Poland, Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland has published a strong op-ed decrying “a dramatic increase in anti-Semitism across our … continue reading →
