This is a cross post from Samuel D. Gruber’s Jewish arts and monuments blog, reflecting on the life and work of Texas Jewish history expert Donald Lee Teter, who died in Houston, Texas on January 26, 2012, at 86. It is important … continue reading →
Virtual Shtetl reports that the extraordinary monument memorial at the former Belzec Nazi death camp in southeast Poland is among 15 structures in the running for an award for the most striking masterpiece of Polish architecture built in the past … continue reading →
A photographic exhibition called “A Kaddish for the Wooden Synagogues of Lithuania” opens today (Feb. 6) at the City Hall in Vilnius, sponsored by the Jakovas Bunka Charity and Sponsorship Fund. A dozen or so small wooden synagogues survive in … continue reading →
Virtual Shtetl reports that fragments of gravestones from the long-demolished Jewish cemetery in the town of Radziejow were discovered at the beginning of January. They had long paved the floor of a private workshop. The Virtual Shtetl team reported … continue reading →
In an article in the Museums Journal, the director of the Jewish Museum of London, Rickie Burman, reflects on the role and function of Jewish museums in Europe. The London museum late last year hosted the annual meeting of … continue reading →
