The August-September Jewish Heritage Europe Newsletter is out. The themes include volunteerism, new Jewish museums, Jewish culture days — and more. It features news and info from Ukraine, Poland, England, Scotland, Belarus, Slovakia, Malta, Czech Republic, Croatia, Italy, Latvia, Romania, … continue reading →
A civic-run Jewish museum has opened in Fondi, a town in Italy’s Lazio region, near the coast halfway between Rome and Naples, where Jews lived from ancient Roman times until their expulsion half a millennium ago. It was the second … continue reading →
A small Jewish museum has opened in Lecce — a beautiful town famous for its Baroque architecture on the very tip of the heel of the Italian boot, where Jews flourished in the middle ages but were expelled half a … continue reading →
Starting in the latter part of the 19th century, Jewish gravestones in parts of Europe often included laminated photographs (or even sometimes sculpted portraits) of the deceased. Some of the photos are haunting (such as the one pictured above.) … continue reading →
We often tend to focus on Jewish cemeteries in eastern Europe that were destroyed by the Nazis and/or — as in L’viv or Bialystok or Prague — built over during the post-World War II communist era. But this article … continue reading →
