The November Jewish Heritage Europe Newsletter is out — news from Lithuania, UK, Ukraine, Slovakia, Latvia, Poland …. We hope, of course, that you have signed up and get the Newsletter delivered automatically each month to your inbox…it’s easy — … continue reading →
On October 9, 2015 the impressive “Lost Shtetl” memorial complex was officially dedicated in and around the small town of Šeduva, Lithuania, with a ceremony attended by Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and other VIPs, including Amir Maimon, Israel’s first ambassador to Lithuania; Darius … continue reading →
A cross-disciplinary conference on Jewish cemeteries in Europe, held October 25-28 in Vilnius, Lithuania, gathered some 60 experts from more than a dozen countries and touched on a wide range of topics within the broad framework of theory, policy, management, and … continue reading →
Here is a crosspost from a piece on Sam Gruber’s Jewish Art and Monuments blog — Concrete Tombstones, The “Poor Cousins” of Matzevot Typology — in which he considers the use of concrete in constructing Jewish gravestones — and the … continue reading →
We posted recently on the EEA grant awarded toward the restoration of the long-derelict wooden synagogue in Pakruojis, Lithuania, which is to be rehabilitated and turned into a library. Jewish Heritage Europe coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber and several other … continue reading →
