The delicate restoration of the elaborately carved and painted wooden Ark, or Aron Kodesh, of the 17th century Great Synagogue in Iaşi is moving forward, and experts expect it to be completed by spring, 2018. Project Director Lucia … continue reading →
A juvenile court in Saverne, Bas-Rhin, France handed down eight to 18 months suspended sentences to five young men for having desecrated the Jewish cemetery in Sarre-Union in the Alsace region of eastern France, also damaging a Holocaust memorial … continue reading →
Sefer – the Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization in Moscow — carried out clean-up and epigraphic work this summer at the ruined and overgrown Jewish cemetery in Rashkov (Raşcov), Transnistria, whose gravestones date back to the 18th century. Raşcov … continue reading →
The Budapest Festival Orchestra is winding up a three-date tour of concerts in provincial synagogues this week — a tour that included a performance in the newly renovated, more than 200-year-old synagogue in the town of Albertirsa. The tour … continue reading →
We are happy to share this call for papers for the conference What Remains of Galicia: Continuities – Ruptures – Perspectives April 19-20, 2018 Place: Vienna, Austria Organizer: the PhD program “Austrian Galicia and its multicultural heritage” (University of … continue reading →
