Virtual Shtetl has listed all the pre-World War II synagogues, prayer houses, and shtibls in Warsaw, thanks to Dr. Eleanora Bergman, the leading expert on Polish synagogue architecture, who has allowed the site to post her research. The list … continue reading →
The Prague Jewish Museum has recently posted the first five of a projected 10 brief promotional videos aimed at giving a visual introduction to the museum, its venues, its activities and its collections. So far, the videos, each about … continue reading →
Long-awaited restoration work has begun on the synagogue at Gėlių st. 6 in Vilnius. The plan includes repairs to the facade as well as to the entry stairs, floors, windows, doors, roof and cupola of the long-disused brick building. The Lithuanian Department … continue reading →
The tiny, disused Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue, one of the few remaining synagogues in London’s East End, has been bought by the East London Mosque, an enormous complex built in the 1980s that already surrounds the building on three … continue reading →
A tribute book honoring the memory and work of the pioneering Czech Jewish heritage researcher Jiří Fiedler, who along with his wife was brutally murdered in Prague last year, has been published. Called Archivist on a Bicycle, it was published … continue reading →
