Today, Sept. 29, is the annual European Day of Jewish Culture — with hundreds of events planned in a dozen countries around Europe: performances, lectures, concerts, guided tours, food-tastings, book fairs, and more. Synagogues, Jewish cemeteries and other Jewish heritage … continue reading →
This is a crosspost from Samuel Gruber’s Jewish Arts and Monuments blog Greece: Ioannina Jewish Cemetery Designated Protected Historic Site by Samuel D. Gruber (n.b. this article contains information provided by Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos,President, Association of Friends of Greek Jewry and the … continue reading →
In a remarkable turn of events, nearly 700 Jewish tombstones and fragments have been discovered in Thessaloniki, more than 70 years after the Nazis destroyed the centuries-old Jewish cemetery of what was the biggest Jewish community in Greece and used … continue reading →
