The surviving fragment of the oldest gravestone found in the Jewish cemetery in Oswięcim, the town where the Auschwitz death camp is located, has been cleaned and preserved by Margrit Borman, a conservator at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, writes Tomasz … continue reading →
Call for applications for a conference in March 2014, Amsterdam Paideia – the European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden and the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe are pleased to present: (Re)shaping the (Re)presentation of Jewish Culture: The Future … continue reading →
We are pleased to circulate this call for applications for Fellowships at the Center for Jewish History in New York. The deadline for most applications in January 6, 2014. Fellowships at the Center for Jewish History 2014-15 The … continue reading →
In the In Focus section, we are pleased to publish the paper From “Atlantis” to …? The past and present of Jewish Krakow in the second decade of the new millennium by Dr. Monika Murzyn-Kupisz, which she presented in the session … continue reading →
The 17th century Great Synagogue in the small village of Tykocin, in northeastern Poland, has been voted one of the “new seven wonders” of Poland, in the third edition of a readers’ contest sponsored by the Polish edition of National Geographic … continue reading →
