The glorious painted replica of the vaulted ceiling of the destroyed synagogue in Gwozdziec has been unveiled in the building of the forthcoming Museum of the History of Polish Jews. The ceiling, constructed over the past year and a half … continue reading →
Good news from Slovakia. Work is progressing on the restoration of the modernist Neolog synagogue in Zilina as part of a project that will transform it into a cultural space. In January, at a ceremony in Munich, the restoration project … continue reading →
A Muslim group is among local organizations trying to raise money to save the Bradford Reform Synagogue, the only synagogue in Bradford, a city in northern England with a large Muslim population. The red-and-cream-striped, Moorish-Victorian synagogue dates from 1880 … continue reading →
In a post on his Vanished World blog, Christian Hermann posts pictures and describes how the Korn Shil, a synagogue in Chernivtsi (Czernowitz) Ukraine that was long used to house an electric transformer, was restored over the past few years and … continue reading →
Warsaw’s Brodno Jewish cemetery, founded in the 18th century, has been returned to Jewish ownership. The cemetery has been heavily vandalized over the years, despite some attempts at restoration, notably in the 1980s by the Nissenbaum Foundation. (See the report in … continue reading →
