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New digital uploads of old synagogue postcards from the Rosenthall collection

  The Low Country Digital Library at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, has uploaded 430 postcards of central and eastern European synagogues from the Rabbi William A. Rosenthall Collection of Judaica, which is held at the College. Rosenthall was the rabbi at … continue reading →

Technology: 3d scanners help digitize weathered inscriptions

  3D scanners are being used successfully to make digital documentation of weathered inscriptions. Leonard Rutgers, of Utrecht University, has been using 3d imaging technology to enable Hebrew inscriptions from an early medieval Jewish cemetery at Venosa, in southern Italy, … continue reading →

Update: Bradford Synagogue received first tranche of lottery funding for restoration

The restoration of the Victorian Moorish style Bradford Reform Synagogue in England, should soon be started in earnest, following receipt of the first tranche of a £109,000 lottery grant toward restoration of the Grade II listed building. The red-and-cream striped synagogue, built in … continue reading →

“Visions of the Holy Land” in northern Romanian synagogues

The current issue of the online Jewish studies journal Quest includes a detailed article by Ilia Rodov on the paintings of Jerusalem and elsewhere in the Holy Land dating from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century that are found in the richly … continue reading →

Plans for synagogue restoration work in Romania in 2014

Aurel Vainer, the president of the Federation of Romanian Jewish Communities (FEDROM), says FEDROM’s agenda for the coming year includes the hoped-for completion of ongoing restoration projects on several major synagogues around the country. In a statement released on his … continue reading →