At the initiative of the Polish Philatelists Association, Poland’s Post Office has issued a limited edition commemorative post card of the synagogue in the village of Chmielnik, which has recently been restored as a Jewish museum and culture center, called … continue reading →
JHE coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber has written an article in Tablet Magazine about the debate surrounding plans for a controversial new government-sponsored Holocaust memorial museum slated to be opened in April in a long-disused train station. She writes about “the powerful … continue reading →
PE NUN, An exhibition of photographs by Maciej Sztorc of gravestones in 10 neglected Jewish cemeteries in southeastern Poland around Lublin, opened January 9 and will run until January 30 at the Gallery NN in Lublin, a project of the … continue reading →
The Low Country Digital Library at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, has uploaded 430 postcards of central and eastern European synagogues from the Rabbi William A. Rosenthall Collection of Judaica, which is held at the College. Rosenthall was the rabbi at … continue reading →
3D scanners are being used successfully to make digital documentation of weathered inscriptions. Leonard Rutgers, of Utrecht University, has been using 3d imaging technology to enable Hebrew inscriptions from an early medieval Jewish cemetery at Venosa, in southern Italy, … continue reading →
