Three synagogues in the Hungarian provinces — in Mád, Keszthely and Albertirsa — served as the venue for special free concerts last month by the Budapest Festival Orchestra. The concerts were part of a community concert series project “in order to raise … continue reading →
Ceremonies June 22 and a series of concerts June 23-25 are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the great synagogue in Lyon, France. A neo-Byzantine building whose street facade (at 13, quai Tilsitt, on the Saône River) resembles a stately mansion, … continue reading →
“An Unfinished Memory,” an exhibit by the American photographer Jason Francisco of photographs of Jewish heritage and heritage sites in western Ukraine, has opened as a new permanent exhibition at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow. The photographs — with … continue reading →
Mazel tov! After nearly four years of work, the ambitious 10 Stars project in the Czech Republic is being inaugurated this month. (See schedule below) A nationwide project linking 10 synagogues/sites of Jewish heritage around the Czech Republic, 10 Stars … continue reading →
A major conference will be taking place in Poland June 24-26 — the Second Congress of Jewish Art in Poland, whose theme is Art in Jewish Society. The meeting, which will take place at the Museum of the History … continue reading →
