Spring is here (sort of) — and travel season approaches….We try to keep track of the growing list of Jewish travel and tourism apps… here are two more: for Edinburgh, Scotland and for the Czech Republic. (Click the category in … continue reading →
We’d like to note three recently published books that will be of interest to our readers. They deal with synagogue architecture in Central Europe and the Islamic World, and with the history of the Ghetto: — Synagogues in the Islamic … continue reading →
If you’re in the Czech Republic, you have two more weeks to see the exhibit on the grandiose synagogue in Olomouc, which was burned down by the local Fascists in March 1939 after the Nazi occupation of Bohemia … continue reading →
” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] Our Newsletter for December is out and can be viewed online. This month there’s news and insight from Poland, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Bulgaria — and more. In addition there is the … continue reading →
The Czech-German Fund for the Future (CNFB) has allocated 300,000 Czech crowns (more than €11,600) toward “rescue work on damaged or eroded gravestones” in the New Jewish cemetery in Horažďovice, in southern Bohemia. It said the project would involve … continue reading →
