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Have Your Say: Cleaning up a Jewish Cemetery — Performing a Mitzvah but Questioning the Process

JHE contributor Michele Migliori recently took part in the clean up of a neglected Jewish cemetery in Tállya, a wine-making village in a remote part of Hungary. In his Have Your Say personal essay, “Cleaning up a Jewish Cemetery: Performing … continue reading →

Austria: Federal government grants major funding for restoration of the Währing Jewish cemetery, Vienna

The Austrian Federal government is allocating €600,000 toward the rehabilitation of the historic, but long-neglected Währing Jewish cemetery in Vienna  —  €200,000 each year over the coming three years. The allocation, announced last week, came at the initiative of  Vice … continue reading →

Poland: Archaeologists (working under rabbinical supervision) make extraordinary discoveries at Warsaw’s vast Okopowa st. Jewish cemetery

(JHE) — Archaeologists working — under rabbinical supervision — in Warsaw’s historic Okopowa street Jewish cemetery have uncovered previously unknown cobblestone paths, buried matzevot (some with gilding an polychrome decoration), and artifacts including glass bottles and coins dating back more … continue reading →

Jewish Cemetery clean-ups — Round-up 3: They rarely grab headlines, but Jewish cemetery clean-ups by volunteers and others go on in many countries — even despite the pandemic

(JHE) — For the third time this year, we are publishing a round-up of some of the many Jewish cemetery clean-up initiatives, by volunteers and others, taking place in various European countries. Earlier this year, we documented such initiatives at … continue reading →

Poland: The “Coalition of Guardians” is launched as a bid to link the many volunteers and projects dealing with Jewish cemeteries all over Poland; its web site links to a cemetery database

Photographing in the Jewish cemetery, Biala, Poland

A new initiative aims to foster and coordinate clean-up and restoration work at the nearly 1,500 Jewish cemeteries all around Poland. The new bid — called a Coalition of Guardians of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland — was announced by Piotr … continue reading →