This summer’s prolonged heatwave and drought in Europe has had an unexpected effect: it has exposed buried gravestones, showing their layout in the historic Beth Haim Portuguese (Sephardic) Jewish cemetery at Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, located near Amsterdam at the confluence … continue reading →
Warsaw is gearing up for the annual conference of the International Association of Jewish Genealogy Societies (IAJGS), which begins on Sunday at the Polin museum and other venues. There are scores of presentations, on all sorts of topics of interest … continue reading →
The European Commission has issued a Call for Applications for a major Pilot Project to document Jewish cemeteries in Europe and monitor best practices in preservation. It is called: Pilot project – Protecting the Jewish cemeteries of Europe: A full … continue reading →
We are turning to our readers for help in providing information about the uniquely decorated wooden Ark in this photo — it is from a synagogue in Tállya, in northeastern Hungary, which was built at the beginning of the 19th … continue reading →
Radauti, Romania: women’s gravestones with candlesticks We’re marking March 8 — International Women’s Day — by saluting the way Jewish women are remembered in visual terms: in this case, the way women are portrayed in Jewish funerary art. Jewish … continue reading →
