JHE coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber has written an article in Tablet Magazine about the debate surrounding plans for a controversial new government-sponsored Holocaust memorial museum slated to be opened in April in a long-disused train station. She writes about “the powerful … continue reading →
PE NUN, An exhibition of photographs by Maciej Sztorc of gravestones in 10 neglected Jewish cemeteries in southeastern Poland around Lublin, opened January 9 and will run until January 30 at the Gallery NN in Lublin, a project of the … continue reading →
Photo © Jasna Ciric Jasna Ciric, the president of the Jewish community in Niš, Serbia, writes that the town’s tourism organization has put up a number of signs pointing the way to the historic Jewish cemetery, putting it on par with … continue reading →
Over the past six months, the Leo Baeck Institute has conducted a survey of Jewish-related archives in Bukovina and Transylvania, two formerly German-speaking regions of Romania. The launch event for the survey’s online catalogue will take place at the Center … continue reading →
The Low Country Digital Library at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, has uploaded 430 postcards of central and eastern European synagogues from the Rabbi William A. Rosenthall Collection of Judaica, which is held at the College. Rosenthall was the rabbi at … continue reading →
