In our new Have Your Say personal essay, American historian Robert Levitt writes how while working in the archives of the Alpes-Maritimes in Nice, France, sorting Holocaust-era documents related to a 20th century politician in Vichy France, he ran across … continue reading →
Our new Have Your Say is by Ida Shenderovich, an educator and manager of social and charity projects at the Jewish Community of Mogilev, Belarus. She writes that the preservation of the heritage and collective memory of the Jewish community … continue reading →
Though a tiny Jewish community still lives in Sibiu, in central Romania, little visible is left of the city’s rich Jewish history, aside from the beautiful Great Synagogue and two Jewish cemeteries. In “Jewish Sibiu: an Almost Forgotten Story” — … continue reading →
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the European Day of Jewish Culture, a pan-European festival of tourism and education centered on Jewish built heritage. Taking place in more than two dozen countries across the continent, the EDJC has become … continue reading →
In our new Have Your Say essay, Maciek Zabierowski describes the latest commemorative project of the Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oświęcim, Poland — the town outside which the Auschwitz death camp was built. It was known in Yiddish as Oshpitzin. … continue reading →
