Our new Have Your Say op-ed is an intensely personal essay by Ionanna Galanaki, who is completing her PhD at Southampton University on the revival of the Etz Chayyim synagogue and community in the ancient port of Chania, Crete. … continue reading →
The most complete study of the synagogues in Greece is the book The Synagogues of Greece: A Study of Synagogues in Macedonia and Thrace, by the architect Elias Messinas, who has been studying and documenting Jewish heritage in Greece since … continue reading →
We posted recently about the rediscovery of fragments of Jewish gravestones in Thessaloniki, Greece — historic Salonika — whose vast Jewish cemetery was destroyed before, during, and after World War II, and whose headstones were used for construction. Fifty thousand … continue reading →
We have posted a number of times about efforts to recover Jewish gravestones and their fragments that were uprooted from Jewish cemeteries and used for construction work and other purposes. Most of our posts have dealt with eastern and … continue reading →
The monthly JHE Newsletter is now online — news, views, info, and insight from Greece, Poland, Britain, Lithuania, Slovakia, Italy, Ukraine, Bulgaria…. Highlights include our obituary and memories of Nikos Stavroulakis, the co-founder of the Jewish Museum of … continue reading →
