The Association for the Preservation and Promotion of European Jewish Culture and Heritage (AEPJ) has added a second route to its European Routes of Jewish Heritage section. This one is a Route of Wooden Synagogues in Central and Eastern Europe. … continue reading →
Following our previous post — here’s Dr. Samuel D. Gruber’s second “Lost Shul” lecture, Nov. 10, in Burlington VT, on synagogue painting in Eastern European Jewish tradition. (We also added this to our original post Dec. 10). ShareTweetSharePin
Dr. Samuel D. Gruber spoke in Burlington, Vermont on Nov. 9 and 10 about the town’s “Lost Shul Mural” — a complex, brightly color mural, painted in 1910 by the Lithuanian immigrant Ben Zion Black, that once adorned the … continue reading →
ITV news in England has run a video report on the drive to raise funds to restore the high stone walls surrounding the historic, 18th-century Jewish cemetery in Penzance, Cornwall which we posted about on Dec. 7. Cost of … continue reading →
The Jewish cemetery in Penzance, Cornwall, has been described as “by far the finest” of the 25 Georgian Jewish cemeteries in Britain outside of London. Believed founded in the 1740s, the cemetery, which includes about 50 well preserved gravestones, … continue reading →
