Construction work several weeks ago near the site of the destroyed old Jewish cemetery in Brest, Belarus uncovered about 150 intact Jewish gravestones and fragments, writes the blog of the Belarus Jewish Heritage Research Group. Members of the local … continue reading →
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has launched an important new online resource on Jews and Jewish life in pre-Holocaust Poland: the YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland. The vast online collection, which includes digitized manuscripts, posters, photographs, … continue reading →
Tablet Magazine has run a fascinating podcast interview with Rutgers University professor Jeffrey Shandler, who speaks about the realities of the shtetl, the symbolism and romance that have grown up around the shtetl and the way that the concept … continue reading →
Virtual shtetl informs that new lists of gravestones from Jewish cemeteries in the towns of Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski and Rohatyn (now in Ukraine) have been published on its portal, as part of the Memory in Stone project. The stones in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski were photographed … continue reading →
We are happy to pass along this call for papers for a conference in Warsaw, June 10, 2014 CfP: New Research on Memory in Eastern Europe (Ukraine and Belarus) Date and venue: Warsaw, June 10, 2014 Deadline for proposals: … continue reading →
