Jewish History, Multiethnic Past, and Common Heritage: Urban Experience in Eastern Europe July 13-August 7, 2015 Applications are due April 6 for this summer’s summer school at the Center for Urban History in L’viv for young (up to age 35) … continue reading →
The Shtetl Routes project, an ambitious, EU-funded, cross-border Jewish tourism initiative in Poland, Belarus and Ukraine, will be holding training sessions for tourist guides to Jewish heritage sites in the area. The sessions, for 30 people each, will be … continue reading →
We have posted in the past about the hundreds and hundreds of Jewish gravestones and fragments that have been discovered in recent years used as building material in Brest, Belarus. The situation has also gained prominence in the media. The Jewish … continue reading →
Vice.com runs a compelling article by Kate Samuelson about the city of Brest, Belarus and the extent to which Jewish tombstones were used in post-war construction there. We posted about this situation in June. Some 450 matzevot were recently discovered during construction of … continue reading →
We are pleased to post brief field notes from the on-site research that is being carried out for the international “Shtetl Routes” project, a tourism itinerary through a score or more of towns in the Poland-Belarus-Ukraine border region that is under development … continue reading →
