The Jewish cemetery in the historic town of Levoča, Slovakia has been cleaned up thanks to the initiative of a local Catholic youth organization, Spoločenstvo Pavol (SP), a member of the Slovak Association of Christian Youth Movements (ZKSM). SP … continue reading →
A new digital portal features a growing interactive map pinpointing cultural and religious sites of Turkey’s Armenian, Greek, Jewish and Syriac minorities. Called Türkiye Kültürel Varlıkları Haritası” (Turkey’s Map of Cultural Heritages), the portal was launched by the Hrant Dink … continue reading →
In recent years, the recovery of headstones uprooted from Jewish cemeteries during and after World War II has become a common motif in Jewish heritage preservation. In towns, cities, and villages, Jewish cemeteries were plundered and essentially used as … continue reading →
Work has begun to remove part of an electric transformer station in Vilnius which was built during the Soviet era using gravestones from Jewish graves of the once-vast Užupis Jewish cemetery on Olandu street, which was almost totally … continue reading →
We often tend to focus on Jewish cemeteries in eastern Europe that were destroyed by the Nazis and/or — as in L’viv or Bialystok or Prague — built over during the post-World War II communist era. But this article … continue reading →
