A civic-run Jewish museum has opened in Fondi, a town in Italy’s Lazio region, near the coast halfway between Rome and Naples, where Jews lived from ancient Roman times until their expulsion half a millennium ago. It was the second … continue reading →
JHE friends Jay and Marla Raucher Osborn, of the Rohatyn Jewish Heritage project and Gesher Galicia, recently joined other volunteers for two days of a three-day Jewish cemetery clearing and cleaning project in Nasielsk, Poland, north of Warsaw. For them … continue reading →
A centuries-old Jewish cemetery in southwestern Turkey will be restored as part of a project aimed at honoring Jewish history in the town, according to a report on the Daily Sabah news site. The cemetery in the town of Milas … continue reading →
Sometimes we like to post about Jewish heritage developments elsewhere that resonate with Jewish heritage issues in Europe. And here is another post along these lines….an article by Tammy Hepps in the Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh, PA about a … continue reading →
A small Jewish museum has opened in Lecce — a beautiful town famous for its Baroque architecture on the very tip of the heel of the Italian boot, where Jews flourished in the middle ages but were expelled half a … continue reading →
