After years of neglect, the dilapidated 19th-century synagogue building in the town of Koronowo in north-central Poland may be preserved and restored for use as a cultural center. In the local newspaper Gazeta Pomorska, Adam Lewandowski writes that the … continue reading →
A dilapidated small Jewish prayer house in the town of Kielce is to be moved from its current position in the back yard of a tenement house to nearby the Jewish cemetery in order to rescue it from falling … continue reading →
The distinctive 19th century synagogue in the southern Polish town of Dabrowska Tarnowska will be reopened this spring as a culture center after a four-year restoration project. The restoration conserves the unique arcaded front. Virtual Shtetl quotes Polish television … continue reading →
In the Jewish Review of Books, David Gelernter writes about the architecture of two strikingly different but surprisingly similar synagogues: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Beth Shalom in suburban Philadelphia, built in the 1950s, and the wooden synagogue in Gwozdziec, now … continue reading →
The exhibition Mazevot in Everyday Use has been on at the National Museum of History in Minsk, Belarus since early February and closes Feb. 23. It showcases photographs by the Polish photographer Łukasz Baksik, documenting the various — inappropriate — … continue reading →
