The plenary sessions of the Managing Jewish Built Heritage conference in Krakow were live-streamed, and are now archived…. Click here for the link to the opening session and the keynote speech by Samuel D. Gruber Click here for the link … continue reading →
The Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland (FODZ) has posted online its annual report for 2012. You can download it HERE ShareTweetSharePin
AFP runs a story about how “Lithuania’s wooden synagogues, the vestiges of a Jewish presence which was wiped out in the Holocaust, are falling into ruin from a lack of funding and support.” Marielle Vitureau writes about the dozen or … continue reading →
Yesterday we reported on plans to restore the ruined 17th century fortress synagogue in Bykhov, Belarus, and install there a Jewish museum. Sergey Kravtsov, of the Center for Jewish Art, has shared with us two striking images from a computer-aided reconstruction … continue reading →
A ruined, 17th-century fortress synagogue in the town of Bykhov, in Belarus, about 100 miles east of Minsk, is set to be restored and become a Jewish museum. The Belarusian Telegraph Agency quoted Belarus Culture Minister Boris Svetlov as saying … continue reading →
