The annual European Day of Jewish Culture is just around the corner. This year the cross-border event takes place September 14. The theme this year is “Women in Judaism.” Hundreds of events and initiatives are planned in: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia … continue reading →
There’s still time to submit to this conference — deadline has been extended til August 29. Tracing Topographies: Revisiting the Concentration Camps Seventy Years after the Liberation of Auschwitz Jewish Museum in London January 6-8 2015. Formerly locations of abject horror, … continue reading →
JTA reports that the City of Warsaw “has agreed to return and preserve 1,000 Jewish headstones that were used to construct a recreational facility inside one of the city’s parks.” They were used to build a pergola and stairs in a … continue reading →
Thanks to a grant for archival preservation, a volunteer clean-up operation, and a series of scheduled cultural and religious events, the synagogue in Medias in Romania is slowly coming back to life. Built in around 1897, the synagogue … continue reading →
Here is a second installment of field notes from the on-site research that is being carried out for the international “Shtetl Routes” project, a tourism itinerary through a score or more of towns in the Poland-Belarus-Ukraine border region that is under development with … continue reading →
