In the six years since it was founded, the Virtual Shtetl web site has become an extraordinary digital portal to news, information and data about Jewish heritage, history and sites in more than 2,500 localities in historic Polish lands. … continue reading →
The Austrian Jewish Museum in Eisenstadt has embarked on a detailed project to document, digitize and locate the gravestones and epitaphs in the city’s Old Jewish Cemetery, which was in used from about 1679 to about 1875. The cemetery … continue reading →
The Maceva Litvak Cemetery Catalogue has published its 2014 annual report, noting its activities over that year in digitizing Jewish cemeteries in Lithuania, photographing individual stones, and carrying out clean-up and other operations. It also outlines plans for … continue reading →
Sergey Kravtsov, Senior Research Associate at the Center for Jewish Art in Jerusalem, has written a thoughtful op-ed on the value and preservation of Jewish religious heritage in Europe, published on the excellent “Future of Religious Heritage” web site. Born … continue reading →
A new video by Tomasz Wisniewski about the Bagnówka Jewish cemetery in Białystok uses stunning drone camerawork and flashbacks to tell the story. ShareTweetSharePin
