Good news on the decade-long project to restore the wooden “Green Synagogue” in Rezekne, Latvia. Here is a cross post from Samuel D. Gruber’s Jewish art and monuments blog: Latvia: Rezekne Green Synagogue Restoration Update by Samuel D. Gruber (ISJM) … continue reading →
Congratulations to Rudolf Klein, whose stunning new book about the Art Nouveau synagogue in Subotica (Szabadka), Serbia — his home town — has won the award for Vojvodina province’s “Most Beautiful Hungarian Book 2012.” See details in the People section … continue reading →
The reconstructed roof of the destroyed wooden synagogue of Gwozdziec (now Ukraine) is, after months and months of work on individual parts, now being erected on site at the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The … continue reading →
If you want to visit Turkey’s glorious historic synagogues, you must plan ahead and be mindful of security concerns, writes Mark I. Pinsky. In an article published several weeks ago in The Forward, he details his visits to centuries-old synagogues in … continue reading →
A 6 million euro project to restore the Reichenbachstrasse synagogue in Munich has been announced. The synagogue, designed by the architect Gustav Meyerstein and built in 1931 — just two years before Hitler came to power — has fallen … continue reading →
