The Czech-German Fund for the Future (CNFB) has allocated 300,000 Czech crowns (more than €11,600) toward “rescue work on damaged or eroded gravestones” in the New Jewish cemetery in Horažďovice, in southern Bohemia. It said the project would involve … continue reading →
An appeal has been issued to find funding to repair the inner cupola of the grand synagogue in Florence. Architect Renzo Funaro, head of the Opera del Tempio di Firenze — the body that oversees the repair, maintenance, … continue reading →
A valuable new resource — a manual on preserving and protecting Jewish cemeteries — has been published, in Polish — and is downloadable for free from the internet. Cmentarze żydowskie. Podręcznik dobrych praktyk w ochronie dziedzictwa lokalnego (Jewish cemeteries. Manual … continue reading →
The Center for Urban History in Lviv has posted an interactive online walking tour of Jewish Lviv that uses maps, photographs and archival material, video, and text to tell the story of places and people, and also to … continue reading →
The Hungarian post office has issued two more stamps in its nearly decade-long series of stamps portraying Synagogues in Hungary. They show the arks/interiors of the synagogues in Győr and Pécs and were designed by the graphic artist Péter Nagy. … continue reading →
