Researchers have created a detailed digital record of the Manchester Reform Synagogue in a way that is meant to preserve it for future generations as an “immersive virtual reality” experience combining architecture, history, archives, and memories. The project, the … continue reading →
The Jewish Museum of Greece has recently published a book on Jewish and Hebrew inscriptions in Greece, from antiquity to the late middle ages. Called Corpus Inscriptionum Judaicarum Graeciae (CIJG): Corpus of Jewish and Hebrew Inscriptions from Mainland and Island Greece … continue reading →
The International Center for Litvak Photography has just published the e-book Back to Shul — a highly personal text and photo essay by the Center’s director, the British photographer Richard Schofield, that chronicles a 12-day journey documenting synagogue buildings in Lithuania. … 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 →
Our friends and colleagues at the Center for Jewish Art at Hebrew University in Jerusalem have had an eventful past year, which (among other things) has included the launch of the Historic Synagogues of Europe web site, the publication of … continue reading →
