After six years of work, the digitalization of more than 250,000 items in The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art has been completed, and the entire collection, including images of Jewish cemeteries and Jewish ritual architecture, as well as ritual … continue reading →
(JHE Coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber recently visited Jewish heritage sites in more than 10 towns near Lviv in western Ukraine to observe conditions and note changes). – – – – Built in the 1740s and heavily damaged in World … continue reading →
A recently launched online database and interactive map locates Holocaust memorial sites in Latvia. The database, Holocaust Memorial Places in Latvia, was elaborated “within the framework of a project of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia, … continue reading →
We posted recently about the rediscovery of fragments of Jewish gravestones in Thessaloniki, Greece — historic Salonika — whose vast Jewish cemetery was destroyed before, during, and after World War II, and whose headstones were used for construction. Fifty thousand … continue reading →
We posted in the past couple of years about two major developments regarding Jewish heritage in Glasgow — the renovation and repair work at the historic Jewish Enclosure of the monumental Necropolis cemetery, and the nearly £350,000 grant from … continue reading →
