In our In Focus section on Issues, we post a link to a powerful op-ed in the Times of Israel by the Yiddishist Dovid Katz about the use and misuse of Jewish gravestones and memory. He focuses on one cemetery … continue reading →
We’ve come across what looks like an interesting kickstarter project called ReVILNA, a project about the WW2 Vilna Ghetto described on its web site as a “digital mapping project dedicated to understanding how the residents of the Ghetto lived, how the … continue reading →
AFP runs a story about how “Lithuania’s wooden synagogues, the vestiges of a Jewish presence which was wiped out in the Holocaust, are falling into ruin from a lack of funding and support.” Marielle Vitureau writes about the dozen or … continue reading →
The Los Angeles Jewish Journal writes about a collaboration between the MACEVA project and middle school students in Lithuania and eight-graders at the Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School near Los Angeles to document and translate Jewish tombstones from the Jewish cemetery in … continue reading →
Maceva, an NGO that cleans and documents and educates about Jewish cemeteries in Lithuania, has published its Spring/Summer 2012 Newsletter, with updates on its activities over the past few months. There are reports about clean-up and documentation activities in … continue reading →
