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A housing estate in Bilgoraj, in southeast Poland, is being constructed as something of a living “shtetl skansen” — or open air shtetl museum, according to a local newspaper. In an article reposted on Virtual Shtetl, Gazetz Wyborcza’s Lublin … continue reading →
In June 2012, Marla Raucher Osborn recounted how a local man, an avid collector and local historian named Janusz Dąbek, had created a small but impressive museum with a Jewish permanent exhibition in Ulanów, a small town in southeastern Poland between Zamosc and … continue reading →
A new book has been published about the pre-war wall writings (advertisements and such) that one can still find in L’viv, Ukraine. They are visible in a number of places, in a number of languages, including Yiddish and Polish, … continue reading →
Exciting news from Spain, where Google, in partnership with Red de Juderías de España, the nationwide Network of Jewish Quarters, has launched an impressive — and exhaustive — new web site that provides an interactive exploration of Jewish heritage … continue reading →
In the Issues pages of our In Focus section, we publish a lengthy article by the Czech researcher Martin Smok about the destroyed (and now all but forgotten) Jewish community in Prague’s Vinohrady district and in particular its destroyed synagogue … continue reading →
