The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the National Institute of Cultural Heritage are in the process of unveiling markers with QR codes at five Jewish cemeteries in Poland. So far, dedication ceremonies have been held at Jewish … continue reading →
The Eighteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, August 8-12, 2022 Section of Panels and Lectures on Visual Arts If all goes well, the 18th World Congress of Jewish Studies will be held next August — in person — … continue reading →
When Pope Francis visited Slovakia this week, he met with representatives of the Slovak Jewish community in one of the most significant and symbolic places of Jewish history in the country: Bratislava’s Rybné Square, the site where the grand, twin-towered … continue reading →
Today’s visitors to Jewish cemeteries are often frustrated by their inability to read the Hebrew inscriptions on the gravestones. In Eisenstadt, Austria, this has been remedied by the attachment of stickers with QR codes to each matzevah in the city’s … continue reading →
Poland’s Cultural Heritage Foundation, in cooperation with technology company Laboratorium EE, has launched an app aimed at encouraging (and enabling) the volunteer documentation of abandoned, neglected, and/or remote Jewish and other cemeteries in Poland and elsewhere — by tourists and other … continue reading →
