(JHE) — We posted just last week about the restoration under way at the former synagogue in Seini, in northwest Romania — and here we are again, as JHE’s Ruth Ellen Gruber (who is on a Jewish heritage trip in … continue reading →
Artist, art historian. and Jewish heritage researcher Dr. Eugeny Kotlyar, a professor at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, was forced to flee from Kharkiv to Lviv after Russian forces bombarded the city. In 2022 he wrote a … continue reading →
(JHE) — A new Holocaust memorial in Poland by the artist Janusz Marciniak is a subtle combination of land art and commemoration. Dedicated with a ceremony last week, it is located at the site of the destroyed Jewish cemetery in … continue reading →
JHE friend Krzysztof Bielawski’s important book, The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland, is about to come out in English, published by Academic Studies Press — and you can already pre-order it via amazon and other platforms. Krzysztof is a … continue reading →
The more the €1 million restoration of the “new” Jewish cemetery in St. Pölten, carried out with federal and provincial funding, has been completed, and on Friday (June 28) the cemetery will be handed over to the St. Pölten local … continue reading →
