The complex of three Victorian buildings at the Willesden Jewish Cemetery in London has been entered as a Grade II site on England’s National Heritage List. According to the cemetery, it marks first time that Jewish Cemetery funerary buildings … continue reading →
(JHE Coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber recently visited Jewish heritage sites in more than 10 towns near Lviv in western Ukraine to observe conditions and note changes.) Much has changed at the Jewish cemetery in Rozdil, south of Lviv, since I … continue reading →
Erfurt, in eastern Germany, has a rich Jewish history, dating from medieval times, and Jewish heritage is integrated in the promotion of the town to both tourists and local people. In an interview published recently in The Forward (and … continue reading →
(JHE Coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber recently visited Jewish heritage sites in more than 10 towns near Lviv in western Ukraine to observe conditions and note changes.) We didn’t know it at the time, but our visit to the town of … continue reading →
The renovation of the century-old synagogue in Alytus, Lithuania, begun last September, is moving forward. According to the web site of the Alytus municipality, the owner and managing organization of the building, last year the roof and part of the … continue reading →
