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Austria: couple buy matzeva via online ad; take it to Jewish community

An Austrian couple from Vienna has bought a 19th century Jewish gravestone they saw advertised online and have returned it to an Austrian Jewish community. According to the Heute news site, the couple purchased the gravestone of one Lev Unger, … continue reading →

Lithuania: a new Jewish Museum as part of controversial Sports Palace conversion?

In the latest twist in the ongoing debate over the Old Jewish Cemetery in Vilnius, the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum said it was “perplexed” by an apparent proposal by Lithuanian officials to set up a new Jewish museum as … continue reading →

ESJF to begin survey of Jewish cemeteries in Bucovina

  The European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative (ESJF) has announced a “vast research and monitoring project” of Jewish cemeteries across the historic Bucovina regiona, which today straddles Chernivtsi oblast in southern Ukraine as well as parts of northern Moldova and northern … continue reading →

Czech Republic: funds sought to restore Plzeň Great Synagogue

The Jewish Community in Plzeň (Pilsen) in the Czech Republic has applied for a 4.5-million-euro  grant from the EU to restore the city’s twin-towered Great Synagogue and Rabbinical house. The planned reconstruction will mainly involve the interior of the Synagogue, … continue reading →

Italy: Rome’s long-lost medieval Jewish cemetery discovered

  Italian archaeologists have discovered 38 graves, with skeletal remains intact, from the cemetery used by Rome’s Jewish community from medieval times to the 17th century. The discovery of the so-called Campus Iudeorum was announced during a news conference held … continue reading →