A web site project documents the traces on doorposts in Poland where mezuzahs were once affixed — and asks people to send in their photos, with location noted. All over Poland (and other countries, of course) many doorposts still bear … continue reading →
Good news from Slovakia. Work is progressing on the restoration of the modernist Neolog synagogue in Zilina as part of a project that will transform it into a cultural space. In January, at a ceremony in Munich, the restoration project … continue reading →
A Museum of Jewish history and culture in Poland’s Mazovia region (around Warsaw) is set to open March 15 in the renovated former synagogue there. Here is the news release issued by the Polish news agency PAP in February, … continue reading →
A Muslim group is among local organizations trying to raise money to save the Bradford Reform Synagogue, the only synagogue in Bradford, a city in northern England with a large Muslim population. The red-and-cream-striped, Moorish-Victorian synagogue dates from 1880 … continue reading →
In a post on his Vanished World blog, Christian Hermann posts pictures and describes how the Korn Shil, a synagogue in Chernivtsi (Czernowitz) Ukraine that was long used to house an electric transformer, was restored over the past few years and … continue reading →
