Over the past six months, the Leo Baeck Institute has conducted a survey of Jewish-related archives in Bukovina and Transylvania, two formerly German-speaking regions of Romania. The launch event for the survey’s online catalogue will take place at the Center … continue reading →
3D scanners are being used successfully to make digital documentation of weathered inscriptions. Leonard Rutgers, of Utrecht University, has been using 3d imaging technology to enable Hebrew inscriptions from an early medieval Jewish cemetery at Venosa, in southern Italy, … continue reading →
The Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) has announced a competition to develop a “Virtual Tour” of Jewish museums in four Italian cities — Rome, Venice, Bologna and Casale Monferrato — that will work on computers, smartphone and tablets. The … continue reading →
Starting in 1987, American-born Israeli educators Rivka and Ben-Zion Dorfman roamed central and eastern Europe, documenting synagogue buildings that were abandoned, transformed, ruined, and occasionally still used for Jewish worship — in Austria, Hungary, Croatia, northern Italy, Greece, and the … continue reading →
The Managing Jewish Immovable Heritage conference in Krakow took place back in April, but its impact is still being felt. The themes, discussions and presentations by the 100 or so participants from two dozen countries underscore all the issues we … continue reading →
