Local authorities in the western Ukrainian town of Husiatyn are grappling with what to do with hundreds of fragments of Jewish gravestones that recently came to light after being used for construction. Journalist Dmitry Polyukhovich writes in the … continue reading →
The monthly Jewish Heritage Europe Newsletter for March is now online. You can read it in your browser — but if you subscribe, you’ll get it automatically right in your inbox. This month’s edition has info, news & … continue reading →
Taking a detour from an academic conference, Penn State University scholar Eliyana Adler a made a roots trip to visit the obscure village in western Ukraine from which, a century ago, her grandmother had emigrated — twice. In our … continue reading →
The Medici Archive Project (MAP) has recently launched a major, multidisciplinary project to virtually “reconstruct the architectural and demographic-economic features of the ghetto of Florence, one of the oldest ghettos of Europe.” The MAP is a research institute whose … continue reading →
A family’s pre-war wooden Sukkah in Płock, Poland has been saved and will be preserved restored, and displayed as a museum exhibit in Warsaw. Krzysztof Bielawski reports on Virtual Shtetl (in a post that as of 2020 was no longer … continue reading →
