The World program on Public Radio International runs a piece on the trip to Belarus and elsewhere in Eastern Europe organized for a small group of students by the Yiddishkayt organization in Los Angeles, via its Helix project. Reports Nina … continue reading →
MACEVA, the non-profit organization founded by Lithuanian psychologist Aleksandr Avramenko and Lithuanian author Sergey Kanovich, has announced that it is digitizing, reconstructing and cleaning three more abandonded Jewish cemetery sites in Lithuania: the cemeteries in Pabrade, Dieveniskes and Utena. … continue reading →
The Lithuania Jewish Cemetery Project has completed the full digitalization of the Pabrades Jewish Cemetery. Photographs, epitaphs, inscriptions, translations, even a video — all now online. Mazel tov! ShareTweetSharePin
A photographic exhibition called “A Kaddish for the Wooden Synagogues of Lithuania” opens today (Feb. 6) at the City Hall in Vilnius, sponsored by the Jakovas Bunka Charity and Sponsorship Fund. A dozen or so small wooden synagogues survive in … continue reading →
In Vilnius, the hillside Užupis cemetery, the final resting place of some 70,000 people, was demolished under Soviet rule in the 1960s and basically used as a quarry for building material….Many of the gravestones were used to construct a stairway … continue reading →
