The Austrian Jewish Museum in Eisenstadt has embarked on a detailed project to document, digitize and locate the gravestones and epitaphs in the city’s Old Jewish Cemetery, which was in used from about 1679 to about 1875. The cemetery … continue reading →
The Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland (FODŻ), reports that urgent roof repairs were completed in mid-April at the Scheinbach synagogue in Przemyśl, in the southeastern corner of Poland. As reported earlier on JHE, water … continue reading →
Ground was broken May 8 for a new wing of the Jewish Museum of Franconia in Fürth, Germany. The 900-square-meter, €5.6 million extension will double the size of the museum and include space for a shop, library and temporary exhibits. … continue reading →
A vandal attack on the recently erected Holocaust memorial in Rajgród, a small town in northern Poland, has led Sam Gruber to consider the context of vandalism of Jewish — and other — monuments and cultural and historic sites, and … continue reading →
The so-called “Lost Shul Mural” in Burlington, Vermont has been moved to its new site in the nearby Ohavi Zedek synagogue. The delicate move was the culmination of months — years — of planning and preparation work to … continue reading →
