The Low Country Digital Library at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, has uploaded 430 postcards of central and eastern European synagogues from the Rabbi William A. Rosenthall Collection of Judaica, which is held at the College. Rosenthall was the rabbi at … continue reading →
3D scanners are being used successfully to make digital documentation of weathered inscriptions. Leonard Rutgers, of Utrecht University, has been using 3d imaging technology to enable Hebrew inscriptions from an early medieval Jewish cemetery at Venosa, in southern Italy, … continue reading →
The current issue of the online Jewish studies journal Quest includes a detailed article by Ilia Rodov on the paintings of Jerusalem and elsewhere in the Holy Land dating from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century that are found in the richly … continue reading →
Happy 2014 (and, of course, beyond…) from Jewish Heritage Europe! Thanks for your involvement, interest and support! If you haven’t already done so — please subscribe to our news feed to get our regular posts delivered to your inbox. … continue reading →
The Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) has announced a competition to develop a “Virtual Tour” of Jewish museums in four Italian cities — Rome, Venice, Bologna and Casale Monferrato — that will work on computers, smartphone and tablets. The … continue reading →
