The Old Synagogue and its Jewish Museum in Krakow will be closed for the coming 4-1/2 months for renovation work. A museum announcement said the synagogue will be closed from November 12, 2019 to March 31, 2020. It did not … continue reading →
If you get to Kaliningrad, Russia — formerly Königsberg, East Prussia — you can now follow a Jewish heritage itinerary in the city. Just a year ago, exactly 80 years after the grandiose New Synagogue was destroyed on Kristallnacht, a … continue reading →
Though a tiny Jewish community still lives in Sibiu, in central Romania, little visible is left of the city’s rich Jewish history, aside from the beautiful Great Synagogue and two Jewish cemeteries. In “Jewish Sibiu: an Almost Forgotten Story” — … continue reading →
We’ve written quite a bit about the extraordinary ancient Jewish catacombs in Venosa, in southern Italy and the project under way to present and present them. Now you can watch this rather amazing 3D computer reconstruction of … continue reading →
In the United States, the European heritage of most American Jews is evident in the Jewish built heritage, particularly in older Jewish cemeteries and synagogues. The historic Ohabei Shalom Jewish cemetery in East Boston, founded in 1844, is the first … continue reading →
