The lavishly ornate interior of the grand New Synagogue in Szeged awaits much-needed restoration, two years after the multi-million euro restoration of the exterior of the enormous domed building was completed. On Monday, JHE director Ruth Ellen Gruber toured the … continue reading →
Restoration is complete on the historic, Moorish-style Rumbach street synagogue in Budapest. The project entails the conversion of the synagogue and its entire building complex into a multi-purpose arts, culture, prayer, and education center, and work is still going on … continue reading →
A number of major synagogues in Europe were built according to designs that were chosen after competitions that drew architects who were often prominent nationally and/or internationally. The grand synagogues in Szeged, Hungary and Trieste, Italy are only two of … continue reading →
By now it’s a JHE tradition. The night of November 9-10 marks the 81st anniversary of the so-called Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938, when the Nazis launched coordinated violent attacks on Jews, Jewish property and Jewish places of worship all over … continue reading →
This past Sunday morning, October 27, 15 students from a Jewish highschool in Budapest gathered at the Kozma street Jewish cemetery in Budapest for the first clean-up and documentation day organized by the Friends of the Budapest Jewish cemetery, a … continue reading →
