Finding funding for Jewish heritage projects is sometimes the most difficult part of a project. We have already highlighted some new crowd-funding campaigns for projects in Poland and Ukraine. Here’s another one — a new Indiegogo campaign just launched to … continue reading →
Coming soon! Here’s a sneak peek at our next “Have Your Say” op-ed, which will be a detailed personal essay by Dr. Michael Lozman, who has worked to protect and preserve more than a dozen abandoned Jewish cemeteries in Belarus and Lithuania. In … continue reading →
The Status Quo synagogue in Trvana, Slovakia was revealed to the public last week after an eight-months’ renovation. The synagogue, designed by the Viennese architect Jakub Gartner and built in 1897 on Halenárska street, has been used as the Jan Koniarek … continue reading →
A new Jewish museum — the Upper Silesian Jews House of Remembrance — has opened, in the restored, red-brick, pre-burial house at the “new” Jewish cemetery in Gliwice, in southern Poland. (Address: 14 Księcia Józefa Poniatowskiego Street). The opening ceremony took place … continue reading →
The small, 18th century mortuary/ceremonial hall of the centuries-old Jewish cemetery in Boskovice, Czech Republic was reopened this week after a total reconstruction that capped a lengthy restoration and clean-up of the entire cemetery. Before the reconstruction the building was was an utter … continue reading →
