Hoop Lane cemetery, one of London’s oldest Jewish burial places (it opened in 1897), will begin offering tours late this month featuring the graves of celebrities buried there. As the Jewish Chronicle reports: Cellist Jacqueline du Pre, rabbis Leo … continue reading →
Debate in on in the Czech Republic over reports that the Czech Culture Ministry wants to name the dilapidated factory building in eastern Bohemia a cultural heritage site; it as the place to which Oskar Schindler moved the more … continue reading →
A project called Le Dor Va Dor is making inventories of Jewish cemeteries in Russia and elsewhere in the former Soviet Union. Founded by young enthusiasts in 2007, it has catalogued more than 100,000 burial places, according to an … continue reading →
A dilapidated small Jewish prayer house in the town of Kielce is to be moved from its current position in the back yard of a tenement house to nearby the Jewish cemetery in order to rescue it from falling … continue reading →
The Media for Social Jewish organization is organizing a trip this summer for volunteers to help clean up the historic Old Sephardi Jewish cemetery in Sarajevo. Founded in 1630, the cemetery today includes about 3,800 grave and lies on … continue reading →
