We are pleased to post brief field notes from the on-site research that is being carried out for the international “Shtetl Routes” project, a tourism itinerary through a score or more of towns in the Poland-Belarus-Ukraine border region that is under development … continue reading →
Student archaeologists are carrying out archaeological and architectural research at the Old Synagogue in Krakow under the auspices of the Historical Museum of the City of Kraków and the Institute of Archaeology of the Krakow’s Jagiellonian University. Located in the … continue reading →
Worth Noting! Thanks to our friends at the Gedenkstättenportal / Sites of Remembrance for drawing attention to a very rich online “FlickRiver” source of photographs of synagogues. As our friends pointed out, it’s “a huge gallery of pictures of synagogues from … continue reading →
Visitors to Jewish cemeteries who don’t know Hebrew can find themselves lost in a sea of unreadable epitaphs. An initiative is under way at the Bagnówka (Eastern) Jewish cemetery in Białystok, Poland (the city’s only surviving Jewish cemetery) to help … continue reading →
Julie Dawson has been investigating the archives in Braşov, Romania as part of her a survey of Jewish material in archives in Romania — and she has turned up fascinating material, including Lipot Baumhorn’s blueprints of the large and elaborate Neolog synagogue that … continue reading →
