Today is Yom ha Shoah, Israel and the Jewish world’s annual day of remembrance of the Holocaust. As we have done in the past (and also on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in January), we highlight some of the … continue reading →
Radauti, Romania: women’s gravestones with candlesticks We’re marking March 8 — International Women’s Day — by saluting the way Jewish women are remembered in visual terms: in this case, the way women are portrayed in Jewish funerary art. Jewish … 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 →
We’re happy to report that the fund-raising campaign to finance urgent repairs to the inner cupola of the grand synagogue in Florence has more than reached its goal. The campaign raised some €35,000 from more than 80 individual or … 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 →
