Last week we posted about the Maceva Litvak Cemetery Catalogue putting its digital database of Jewish cemeteries behind a paywall for most users… in our new Have Your Say op-ed, “We Can’t Live on Air,” Maceva founder Sergey Kanovich … continue reading →
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 →
Witold Wrzosiński is the co-founder and co-director of the Foundation for Documentation of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland. Currently, with a grant from the Polish Ministry of Culture, he is writing a Field Guide to Jewish Cemeteries, mainly aimed at … continue reading →
Drone videography is becoming widespread…..seeing Jewish cemeteries from above provides a new perspective and puts them into the context of their surroundings. We have already linked to a drone video of the Jewish cemetery in Bialystok, Poland. Here’s … continue reading →
