The Nova Synagoga project restoring the New Synagogue in Zilina, Slovakia and transforming it into an arts center will recognize donors to the €1 million project with an art work. The modernist synagogue, designed by the German architect Peter Behrens and … continue reading →
The Marek Edelman Dialogue Centre in Łodź, Poland, together with the Institute of Archeology of the University of Łodź, will organize archaeology workshops August 26-30 aimed at seeking out the foundations of the “Alte Szil,” or Old Synagogue, an elaborate, Byzantine-Moorish-style … continue reading →
We’ve just come across this post from a few months ago on the Jewish family search web site, describing a private prayer room that was discovered in L’viv in 2012 in the basement of a building at 71 Ivana Franka … continue reading →
Restoration work at the historic synagogue in Exeter, England – built in 1763 and the third oldest in the UK — was finished in time for celebrations this month marking its 250th anniversary. The Jewish Chronicle reports that the £118,000 repair work brought … continue reading →
The magnificent synagogue and Jewish museum at Casale Monferrato in northern Italy will be closed for the month of August due to restoration work. The announcement on the synagogue/museum’s newly designed web site did not specify what work will … continue reading →
