There is a move to nominate several large, urban Jewish cemeteries in Europe for inclusion on UNESCO’s list of world heritage sites. As Virtual Shtetl reports, 23 experts met in Berlin early this week to discuss the proposal and consult … continue reading →
We continue our High Holidays feature highlighting synagogues that were inaugurated or rededicated after renovation on or around Rosh Hashanah. Today we feature the magnificent Dohany St. Synagogue in Budapest and Great Synagogue in Sofia Bulgaria, — which were both … continue reading →
The first stage of the government-funded $4 million restoration of the magnificent Neolog synagogue in Szeged, Hungary is under way, with urgent conservation being carried out to prevent the synagogue from having to close its doors. According to the web … continue reading →
The neoclassical synagogue in Óbuda, in the northern part of Budapest, was designed by András Landherr and dedicated in 1821. It long served as a studio of Hungarian TV after World War II. Since 2010 it has been used … continue reading →
A vandal attack on the recently erected Holocaust memorial in Rajgród, a small town in northern Poland, has led Sam Gruber to consider the context of vandalism of Jewish — and other — monuments and cultural and historic sites, and … continue reading →
