Five Polish citizens have been presented a new award, the Laurel Crown of Memory, honoring Poles who protect, preserve and/or promote Jewish heritage, culture, and memory. The award, whose first edition coincides with events this year marking the 25th anniversary … continue reading →
Virtual Shtetl has added more than 200 archival photographs from the collections of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences to its website. Most of them are of pre-World War II synagogues and their interiors and have … continue reading →
We would like to signal an extraordinary four-part series of videos put together by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter based on the collections of the Jewish author, playwright and researcher S. An-sky, who led a series of ethnographic expeditions in 1912-1914 … continue reading →
In the six years since it was founded, the Virtual Shtetl web site has become an extraordinary digital portal to news, information and data about Jewish heritage, history and sites in more than 2,500 localities in historic Polish lands. … continue reading →
The Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland (FODŻ), reports that urgent roof repairs were completed in mid-April at the Scheinbach synagogue in Przemyśl, in the southeastern corner of Poland. As reported earlier on JHE, water … continue reading →
