A number of cemetery clean-ups and other initiatives and developments have taken place in Poland in recent weeks — and also some vandalism. We have reported on some of them, but here are notes about others. Virtual Shtetl has also … continue reading →
A crowd-sourcing campaign has been launched to create a lapidarium at the destroyed Jewish cemetery in Wronki, Poland, where hundreds of matzevot and fragments have been rescued from improper use and collected on the cemetery site. Most of the … continue reading →
Our previous post highlighted an article by Phyllis Myers in this month’s Moment Magazine in which she poses the old question: should old synagogues in eastern Europe be saved? Her answer was a decided YES. It is important to remember, however, … continue reading →
In a compelling essay for Moment Magazine, Phyllis Myers, a conservation policy and politics adviser to governments and private groups, returns to consider a question she first addressed some 25 years ago — a question that we at JHE feel has long been answered: … continue reading →
Sam Gruber has written a detailed appreciation of the new monument recently dedicated at the site of the Jewish cemetery in Serock, Poland — about 40 km north of Warsaw — and we are cross-posting it here from his … continue reading →
