Summer is just about here in Europe and we’re continuing with some travel and tourism related posts and articles. Veteran travel writer Ben G. Frank has recently published the fourth edition of his book A Travel Guide to Jewish Europe. … continue reading →
The Ghetto of Venice received much attention in 2016, through a series of events that marked the 500th anniversary of its inception, in 1516. We’d like to draw attention to a recent book by Reed College Professor Dana E. Katz, … continue reading →
With the travel season under way, new Jewish travel books and resources are becoming available, and we will be highlighting some of them. In this post, we note new editions of two Jewish travel guide books that have been around … continue reading →
We’d like to note three recently published books that will be of interest to our readers. They deal with synagogue architecture in Central Europe and the Islamic World, and with the history of the Ghetto: — Synagogues in the Islamic … continue reading →
The most complete study of the synagogues in Greece is the book The Synagogues of Greece: A Study of Synagogues in Macedonia and Thrace, by the architect Elias Messinas, who has been studying and documenting Jewish heritage in Greece since … continue reading →
