Visitors to Jewish cemeteries who don’t know Hebrew can find themselves lost in a sea of unreadable epitaphs. An initiative is under way at the Bagnówka (Eastern) Jewish cemetery in Białystok, Poland (the city’s only surviving Jewish cemetery) to help … continue reading →
Congratulation to Karolina and Piotr Jakoweńko of Cukerman’s Gate Foundation and to Jolanta Żyndul, who were awarded the Maria and Lukasz Hirszowicz prize at a ceremony June 2 at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. The prize was established … continue reading →
An open-air Jewish museum marking places of Jewish history in Radomsko, Poland opened on June 2 with a ceremony attended by the ambassadors of Israel and Germany and other VIPs. The museum, a sort of walking trail, consists of some … continue reading →
Big crowds turned out at the Jewish museums in Florence, Siena, Bologna, Livorno, Milan, Ferrara and Venice, which opened specially Thursday night to show solidarity with the Jewish museum in Brussels and the victims of last Saturday’s attack there that left … continue reading →
Work is to begin soon in an outdoor ethnographic museum in southeast Poland on the construction of a full-scale replica of the wooden synagogue of Połaniec, which was destroyed, along with the Jewish population of the town, during World War II. … continue reading →
