JTA runs a story about the burdens of caring for Jewish cemeteries in Europe. The issues are familiar to readers of this web site — and anyone involved in the field, and it is good that they are getting … continue reading →
We are used to pained and evocative — even shocked and/or outraged — descriptions of abandoned Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe. In an article this week, the Los Angeles Times echoes these sentiments to describe an abandoned Jewish cemetery in East … continue reading →
The former Greenbank Drive Synagogue in Liverpool, England, is to receive £70,000 in rescue funding from English Heritage and the Liverpool city council so that the Grade II listed building, which has been on the “English Heritage at Risk” … continue reading →
The glorious painted replica of the vaulted ceiling of the destroyed synagogue in Gwozdziec has been unveiled in the building of the forthcoming Museum of the History of Polish Jews. The ceiling, constructed over the past year and a half … continue reading →
Warsaw’s Brodno Jewish cemetery, founded in the 18th century, has been returned to Jewish ownership. The cemetery has been heavily vandalized over the years, despite some attempts at restoration, notably in the 1980s by the Nissenbaum Foundation. (See the report in … continue reading →
