The February 2012 Newsletter of Lo-Tishkach, the European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, is out and contains a compendium of valuable information from the news archive of the organization’s web site. Highlights include: — Lo Tishkach to Expand Surveys into Poland … continue reading →
In his blog on Jewish art and monuments, Sam Gruber reports on the new agreement signed last month between the U.S. and Kosovo aimed to protect cultural heritage sites, especially of religious and ethnic minorities. U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Rodham … continue reading →
The U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad published its Survey of Jewish Monuments in Bulgaria on Dec. 28. Most of the information on the Bulgaria pages of the JHE website is based on material prepared for … continue reading →
Moment Magazine runs a lengthy interview with Britta Wauer, the director of In Heaven, Underground — a documentary film exploring the 131-year history of Berlin’s Weissensee Jewish cemetery that has been garnering enthusiastic reviews. Most Berliners have heard of … continue reading →
In Vilnius, the hillside Užupis cemetery, the final resting place of some 70,000 people, was demolished under Soviet rule in the 1960s and basically used as a quarry for building material….Many of the gravestones were used to construct a stairway … continue reading →
