Historian Pam Manix has pinpointed the site of a medieval Jewish cemetery in Oxford, England and a memorial stone will be erected there. The BBC reports that Manix discovered the site — under the present-day Rose Garden near the … continue reading →
Vandals have toppled or damaged 43 gravestones in the Jewish section of Vienna’s Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery). Police are investigating. “We are deeply dismayed at this level of vandalism,” Jewish community President Oscar Deutsch stated Friday after inspecting the site. … continue reading →
Restoration work has been going on for many years at the Jewish cemetery on Seegasse St., the oldest preserved Jewish cemetery in Vienna. The Vienna city government’s culture department reports that a milestone in the process recently took place: “The … continue reading →
The Italian Jewish community is appealing for aid to help restore synagogues and other Jewish properties in several cities that were damaged in the earthquakes that struck northern Italy May 20 and 30. The quakes killed at least … continue reading →
Five gravestones in the historic Jewish cemetery in Hohenems, in Austria’s far-western Voralberg Region, have been vandalized, but it was apparently the work of drunken revelers attending a festival Sunday night held in a tent a few hundred meters away, … continue reading →
