The Marek Edelman Dialogue Centre in Łodź, Poland, together with the Institute of Archeology of the University of Łodź, will organize archaeology workshops August 26-30 aimed at seeking out the foundations of the “Alte Szil,” or Old Synagogue, an elaborate, Byzantine-Moorish-style … continue reading →
We’ve just come across this post from a few months ago on the Jewish family search web site, describing a private prayer room that was discovered in L’viv in 2012 in the basement of a building at 71 Ivana Franka … continue reading →
Clean-up and restoration work starts Aug. 1 in the Jewish cemetery in Myslowice, in southern Poland, thanks to pressure on municipal authorities by local citizens and activists, writes the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper. The cemetery situated on ul. Gwarków is … continue reading →
Restoration work at the historic synagogue in Exeter, England – built in 1763 and the third oldest in the UK — was finished in time for celebrations this month marking its 250th anniversary. The Jewish Chronicle reports that the £118,000 repair work brought … continue reading →
The magnificent synagogue and Jewish museum at Casale Monferrato in northern Italy will be closed for the month of August due to restoration work. The announcement on the synagogue/museum’s newly designed web site did not specify what work will … continue reading →
