New technology — ground-penetrating radar — is being used to search for the graves of tzaddikim on the site of a destroyed Jewish cemetery in Mielec, Poland, where for the past few years Chasidim have been trying to identify the … continue reading →
MACEVA, the Lithuanian Jewish cemetery project, has released its 2013 Activity Report on its efforts to digitally document and preserve Jewish cemeteries in Lithuania. It demonstrates progress — but also underscores the many challenges. There are progress reports on digitization … continue reading →
We are in the middle of the U.S. National Preservation Week — a national campaign April 26-May 3 launched by the American Library Association, the Library of Congress, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and other cultural heritage organizations … continue reading →
Marking the 70th anniversary of the deportation of Greek Jews, JTA runs a story about the dwindling Romaniote Jewish community in Ioannina, with a focus (and picture) of the historic synagogue there. The Nazis rounded up more than 1800 … continue reading →
View Larger Map An ambitious, international “Shtetl Routes” tourism itinerary through a score or more of towns in the Poland-Belarus-Ukraine border region is under development with a more than €400,000 grant from the European Union’s Cross-border Cooperation Programme Poland-Belarus-Ukraine … continue reading →
