Thanks to new grants, the World Monuments Fund has announced further steps in synagogue restoration projects in Venice, Italy and Iaşi, Romania. Iaşi — Great Synagogue restoration nears completion After years of work, the WMF notes that the conservation … continue reading →
In our new Have Your Say op-ed, Hanno Loewy, the director of the Jewish Museum in Hohenems, Austria, visits Trieste, Italy and describes how family history often provides tangible connections to Jewish memory and heritage, with Jewish built … continue reading →
The Lithuanian Jewish Community has reiterated opposition to possible plans to reconstruct the destroyed Great Synagogue in Vilnius and expressed concern over recent project proposals that advocate for partially reconstructing the building and developing the site as a commercial … continue reading →
Congratulations to the editors and authors of a new book that should be of interest to many of our readers: Reform Judaism and Architecture, edited by Andreas Brämer, Mirko Przystawik and Harmen H. Thies and published October 6 by … continue reading →
After following the project from afar for several years, Jewish Heritage Europe’s Coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber finally got a chance to visit the “living shtetl skansen” being built in Biłgoraj, Poland, and the full-scale replica of the destroyed wooden synagogue … continue reading →
