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Ukraine: stunning video of the vast Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsi powerfully evokes the image of surviving Jewish cemeteries as a “Tribe of Stones”

In her ground-breaking 1983 book “Time of Stones,” the first photo and text book about abandoned Jewish cemeteries published in Poland after WW2, Monika Krajewska quoted the poet Anna Kamienska as describing surviving Jewish cemeteries as a “Tribe of Stones:” … continue reading →

New HAVE YOUR SAY: Exploring the hidden Jewish heritage on the Romanian shore of the Danube — The REDISCOVER project in Galați, and its pandemic-era online Jewish culture festival

Our new HAVE YOUR SAY essay is up, about Jewish history and heritage in Galați, a port city on the Danube in northern Romania’s Moldavia region. Over the past three years, REDISCOVER, a project financed by the EU’s Danube Transnational … continue reading →