The International Institute for Jewish Genealogy (IIJG) has announced that its Founding Director, Dr. Neville Lamdan, has retired from his position after seven years in the job. In his place, the IIJG Executive Committee decided to create the new positions … continue reading →
The archives of the New York-based Leo Baeck Institute (now part of the Center for Jewish History) will be going online as of Oct. 16 as a portal called DigiBaeck. This will represent an unprecedented resource of digitally accessible primary … continue reading →
Vandals have toppled or damaged 43 gravestones in the Jewish section of Vienna’s Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery). Police are investigating. “We are deeply dismayed at this level of vandalism,” Jewish community President Oscar Deutsch stated Friday after inspecting the site. … continue reading →
Restoration work has been going on for many years at the Jewish cemetery on Seegasse St., the oldest preserved Jewish cemetery in Vienna. The Vienna city government’s culture department reports that a milestone in the process recently took place: “The … continue reading →
Five gravestones in the historic Jewish cemetery in Hohenems, in Austria’s far-western Voralberg Region, have been vandalized, but it was apparently the work of drunken revelers attending a festival Sunday night held in a tent a few hundred meters away, … continue reading →
