The Maceva Litvak Cemetery Catalogue, strapped for funding, has launched a newly designed web site which includes a new access policy for its digitized cemetery resources that essentially puts its database behind a paywall. Under the new policy, Maceva … continue reading →
Berlin’s Weissensee Jewish cemetery, covering 42 hectares and with some 115,000 burials one of the largest in Europe, is something of a nature preserve, home to a remarkably vast variety of plant and animal life, a wide-ranging survey shows. The … continue reading →
Ground-penetrating radar and other new, non-invasive technologies are important new tools in research on Jewish (and other) burial places, including cemeteries as well as death camps and other Holocaust sites. These technologies can help pinpoint grave sites and buried … continue reading →
We apologize for being late in posting this call, but there is still a week to get applications in! Click here to see the full information Call for art project at the Mediaș, Romania synagogue complex Absence as Heritage Visualizing … continue reading →
Attention young scholars….please help us! For a possible future project, we are seeking information on scholars who have completed a Masters or PhD degree — or are current working on one — in the field of Jewish heritage: what is … continue reading →
