Slovak media is reporting on progress in the restoration of the long-derelict synagogue that anchors the Orthodox Jewish compound on Zvonarska street in Košice, the main city in eastern Slovakia. Korzár Košice writes that the latest step in the … continue reading →
The Cultural Heritage Department of the Lithuanian Culture Ministry has listed the modest wooden synagogue in Varėna, Lithuania on the roster of cultural heritage sites as being “of local significance and important for its architecture and as a memorial.” … continue reading →
” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] An important new resource on European synagogues is now online. It’s a web site — historicsynagogueseurope.org — that includes an interactive survey map of more than 3,000 synagogues in 48 countries, with … continue reading →
At long last, after decades of fitful starts and setbacks, the stunning art nouveau synagogue in Subotica, Serbia is restored, inside and out — with the official dedication planned for some time in the next couple of months. … continue reading →
The most complete study of the synagogues in Greece is the book The Synagogues of Greece: A Study of Synagogues in Macedonia and Thrace, by the architect Elias Messinas, who has been studying and documenting Jewish heritage in Greece since … continue reading →
