We are used to pained and evocative — even shocked and/or outraged — descriptions of abandoned Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe. In an article this week, the Los Angeles Times echoes these sentiments to describe an abandoned Jewish cemetery in East … continue reading →
Dmitro Panair has published a lengthy online article on the historic Jewish cemetery in Sataniv, Ukraine, focusing on the iconography of the stone carving and illustrated with lots of images. The article, on the texty.org.ua web site, is in … continue reading →
A long-abandoned 300-year-old Jewish cemetery, the largest in the Netherlands, will be open to the public one Sunday a month into November, thanks to restoration efforts by local Jewish and Moroccan young people. JTA quotes Marcel Mock, the spokesperson for the … continue reading →
Warsaw’s Brodno Jewish cemetery, founded in the 18th century, has been returned to Jewish ownership. The cemetery has been heavily vandalized over the years, despite some attempts at restoration, notably in the 1980s by the Nissenbaum Foundation. (See the report in … continue reading →
In his newly launched blog, Vanished World, Christian Herrmann provides a report on some of the organized volunteer groups, mainly of students and young people, that come to Ukraine (and elsewhere) each summer to help clear up Jewish cemeteries. … continue reading →
