Got £125,000? The distinctive red brick former United Hebrew Congregation synagogue in the English seaside resort of Blackpool is up for auction (again), six years after it was deconsecrated — and that’s the guide price. The auction will take place … continue reading →
An anonymous Polish benefactor is financing the restoration of the Jewish cemetery in Zywiec, in southern Poland. Volunteers organized on Facebook cleaned up the devastated Jewish cemetery in Czechowice-Dziedzice. More than 300 gravestones are uprighted, cleaned, and documented during this summer’s volunteer … continue reading →
This summer’s prolonged heatwave and drought in Europe has had an unexpected effect: it has exposed buried gravestones, showing their layout in the historic Beth Haim Portuguese (Sephardic) Jewish cemetery at Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, located near Amsterdam at the confluence … continue reading →
A 50-year-old drawing reveals the ravaged interior of the 17th century synagogue in Tykocin, Poland — nearly a decade before it was renovated and reopened as one of the very few Jewish museums that operated in Communist-ruled east-central Europe. The … continue reading →
We’ve been following with great interest the progress of the restoration of the Great Maharsha Synagogue in Ostroh, Ukraine. This new video, showing the restoration of the capitals of the columns, is, well, thrilling — given the state of the … continue reading →
