JHE coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber writes that even though the project has been greenlighted, Rome is still at least three years away from having its Museum of the Shoah. The $30 million, city-funded museum, Italy’s first fullscale Holocaust museum, is to be … continue reading →
Good news on the decade-long project to restore the wooden “Green Synagogue” in Rezekne, Latvia. Here is a cross post from Samuel D. Gruber’s Jewish art and monuments blog: Latvia: Rezekne Green Synagogue Restoration Update by Samuel D. Gruber (ISJM) … continue reading →
Laser portraits on Jewish gravestones are a common means of personalizing the stones in the former Soviet Union — and now this trend has been transported to the United States by recent immigrants. The Forward runs a wonderful narrated … continue reading →
Congratulations to Rudolf Klein, whose stunning new book about the Art Nouveau synagogue in Subotica (Szabadka), Serbia — his home town — has won the award for Vojvodina province’s “Most Beautiful Hungarian Book 2012.” See details in the People section … continue reading →
The reconstructed roof of the destroyed wooden synagogue of Gwozdziec (now Ukraine) is, after months and months of work on individual parts, now being erected on site at the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The … continue reading →
