Few other parts of Italy (or, indeed, of Europe) provide such a varied and spectacular array of Jewish heritage sites than does Piemonte — Piedmont — the northwest corner of the country along the French and Swiss borders. Aside … continue reading →
Last year’s major exhbition at the POLIN museum in Warsaw — Frank Stella and Synagogues of Historic Poland — can now be visited online. The exhibit, which ran from February 18-June 20, 2016, presented a collection of works by … continue reading →
The Cork Public Museum has added a permanent exhibit on Jewish history in the town — whose only synagogue was closed and deconsecrated last year because of the dwindling Jewish community. The Irish Times reports that the exhibit, titled “The … continue reading →
We want to give an early heads up about an exhibition that will open in Venice in May — a multi-media installation by Hadassa Goldvicht that examines the transitions of Venice by focusing on Aldo Izzo, the 86-year-old guardian and … continue reading →
A family’s pre-war wooden Sukkah in Płock, Poland has been saved and will be preserved restored, and displayed as a museum exhibit in Warsaw. Krzysztof Bielawski reports on Virtual Shtetl (in a post that as of 2020 was no longer … continue reading →
