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A historic 19th century Jewish cemetery on Malta has been cleaned up by local activists, and translation of the gravestone epitaphs has begun. The clean-up of the Jewish section of Valletta’s Ta’ Braxia cemetery took place this spring, on … continue reading →
A civic-run Jewish museum has opened in Fondi, a town in Italy’s Lazio region, near the coast halfway between Rome and Naples, where Jews lived from ancient Roman times until their expulsion half a millennium ago. It was the second … continue reading →
A small Jewish museum has opened in Lecce — a beautiful town famous for its Baroque architecture on the very tip of the heel of the Italian boot, where Jews flourished in the middle ages but were expelled half a … continue reading →
Last night — June 4-5 — was the sixth edition of the “7@Nite” or “Night of the Synagogues” in Krakow, a wonderful initiative where all seven of the synagogues in the historic Jewish district, Kazimierz, were opened to the … continue reading →
ShUM is an acronym of the first letters of the medieval Hebrew names of three cities in Germany: Shin (Sh) = Shpira = Speyer; Vav (represented as U) = Warmaisa = Worms; and Mem (M) = Magenza = Mainz. In … continue reading →
