In the wake of the death of Hryhoriy (Grisha) Arshynov, who over the past five years spearheaded the restoration of the Great Maharsha Synagogue in Ostroh, a crowd-funding campaign to complete the work has been launched in his honor. Arshynov … continue reading →
(JHE) – Desecrations of Jewish cemeteries make headlines, but all too often the many efforts by volunteers and others to clean and restore them get overlooked or ignored. For the fourth time this year we are publishing a round-up of … continue reading →
(JHE) — We mourn the death of Hryhoriy (Grisha) Arshynov, a Jewish activist who fought for decades to rescue and preserve the Jewish cemetery in Ostroh, Ukraine — and over the past four years spearheaded the restoration of the town’s … continue reading →
(JHE) — For the third time this year, we are publishing a round-up of some of the many Jewish cemetery clean-up initiatives, by volunteers and others, taking place in various European countries. Earlier this year, we documented such initiatives at … continue reading →
Cemetery desecrations make headlines, but all too often the many initiatives by volunteers and others to clean-up, restore, and document Jewish cemeteries get ignored. At the beginning of June, we published a round-up of some of the many Jewish cemetery … continue reading →
