A new Jewish museum is opening this week in Padova (Padua), the historic town in northern Italy not far from Venice. Also this month, in a series of inaugural events, the Jewish Museum of Franconia (Jüdisches Museum Franken), in Bavaria, opened a third branch … continue reading →
A candlelit concert will be held June 28 to benefit the restoration and maintenance of the synagogue in Thann, in the Alsace region of France. The event, which will feature klezmer and Gypsy music and swing will take place at the … continue reading →
Virtual Shtetl has added more than 200 archival photographs from the collections of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences to its website. Most of them are of pre-World War II synagogues and their interiors and have … continue reading →
We would like to signal an extraordinary four-part series of videos put together by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter based on the collections of the Jewish author, playwright and researcher S. An-sky, who led a series of ethnographic expeditions in 1912-1914 … continue reading →
Significant progress has been made in the painstaking, but long-stalled, restoration of the 17th Century Great Synagogue in Iaşi, Romania. The scaffolding that had shrouded the building since 2005 has come down, revealing the restored exterior (which leaves the stone … continue reading →
