Several participants in last week’s working seminar in Krakow on Managing Jewish Immovable Heritage have written about the conference on web sites/blogs. Thanks to them for getting the word out! Click the links below to see what they said: The … continue reading →
JHE coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber writes that even though the project has been greenlighted, Rome is still at least three years away from having its Museum of the Shoah. The $30 million, city-funded museum, Italy’s first fullscale Holocaust museum, is to be … continue reading →
The magnificent Tempio Maggiore, or Great Synagogue in Florence was inaugurated 130 years ago today — on Oct. 24, 1882. Designed by architects Marco Treves, Mariano Falcini, and Vincenzo Micheli, it is lavishly decorated in Moorish-Byzantine style and features a … continue reading →
Starting today (Sept. 30), the historic Jewish cemetery in Siena will be regularly opened to the public on the last Sunday of each month. Until now, it has only been open on the European Day of Jewish Cuture and … continue reading →
Prof. Cesare Colafemmina, an Italian scholar who was a pioneering researcher on the historic Jewish presence in southern Italy, has died at the age of 79. Colafemmina died Sept. 12 after a long illness. Colafemmina taught at the University … continue reading →
