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JHE coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber writes that even though the project has been greenlighted, Rome is still at least three years away from having its Museum of the Shoah. The $30 million, city-funded museum, Italy’s first fullscale Holocaust museum, is to be … continue reading →
The Museum of the History of Polish Jews has unveiled its new logo: a green and grey “P” formed in part by the Hebrew letter “pey”… What do you think of it? Here’s what the Museum says: NEW LOGO OF … continue reading →
Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History, vol. 26 of Studies in Contemporary Jewry, has recently been published by Oxford University Press. Edited by Richard I. Cohen, it is probably the first volume in English that is devoted to Jewish … continue reading →
The reconstructed roof of the destroyed wooden synagogue of Gwozdziec (now Ukraine) is, after months and months of work on individual parts, now being erected on site at the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The … continue reading →
A housing estate in Bilgoraj, in southeast Poland, is being constructed as something of a living “shtetl skansen” — or open air shtetl museum, according to a local newspaper. In an article reposted on Virtual Shtetl, Gazetz Wyborcza’s Lublin … continue reading →
