With great sadness we mourn the loss of Anna Perczel, an architect, urban planner, and activist who researched and fought to preserve the historic buildings of Budapest’s pre-war downtown Jewish neighborhoods. She died in Budapest Sunday (June 13), aged 79. … continue reading →
The Jewish heritage world is filled with often unsung local heroes and heroines — non Jewish people who devote time, energy, and passion to preserving, maintaining, documenting, and caring for Jewish heritage sites and memory. One of these was Mykhailo … continue reading →
(JHE) — We mourn the death of Rivka Dorfman, who with her husband Ben-Zion spent years documenting the synagogues of Europe. She passed away in Jerusalem, aged 97. Starting in 1987, the Dorfmans, American-born Israeli educators, roamed central and parts … continue reading →
(JHE) — With great sadness we mourn the death of the inimitable Jan Jagielski, a true pioneer in research on Jewish heritage in Poland, an inspiration and mentor to generations — and, perhaps above all, a consummate mensch. In failing … continue reading →
(JHE) — We mourn the death of Krzysztof Śliwiński, a Polish diplomat and intellectual who was an early Catholic activist in Jewish heritage preservation and in fostering Polish-Jewish relations — in 1995 he was named post-Communist Poland’s first official roving … continue reading →
