With Jewish genealogy a growth industry, and travel to eastern European eased, more and more people are “returning” (actually going for the first time) to the shtetls that their ancestors were often happy — or forced — to leave. The … continue reading →
We are happy to share the link on the LEOLAM Jewish Heritage Foundation blog to a series of pictures documenting the inauguration Sept. 25, 2013 of the restored funeral house at the entrance to the Jewish cemetery in Moinesti, Romania. Renovation … continue reading →
The town of Kielce in south-central Poland is infamous as the site of the July 4, 1946 pogrom against Holocaust survivors that killed at least 42 Jews. But the town has several important sites of Jewish heritage, including a Jewish … continue reading →
Though thousands of Jewish heritage sites — synagogues, cemeteries, mikvaot, former ghetto areas, etc — still stand, in one form or another, many, many Jewish places have been razed, forgotten or erased from memory. Many synagogue buildings have been … continue reading →
Virtual Shtetl has run a troubling article by Adam Dylewski about the uncertain, and apparently bleak, future of the Regional Museum housed in the thick-walled, 17th-century former synagogue in Łęczna, Poland — long recognized as one of the best solutions for … continue reading →
