Today, March 8, is marked around the world as International Women’s Day. In past years, we have marked the day with photo essays showing how women have been represented in Jewish art. (Click HERE for 2019 and HERE for 2018.) … continue reading →
Poland’s Rabbinical Commission on Cemetery Affairs decried what it called the “conscious and merciless destruction of the Jewish cemetery” in the southern town of Jasło, by the construction of a road through the cemetery territory. It said at least eight … continue reading →
Following the closure of a year-long standoff over the directorship of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, the museum’s new director, Zygmunt Stępiński, begins a three-year term in the post today, March 1. Stępiński, who became Deputy … continue reading →
The February edition of the Jewish Heritage Europe monthly Newsletter is out. News, views, and insights on Jewish heritage issues published in JHE over the past few weeks. In this edition — items from Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal, Italy, Spain, England, … continue reading →
The municipal authorities of the town of Zawiercie, in southern Poland, have taken over for free the ownership of the seriously dilapidated former synagogue building and the land on which it stands and plan to restore the building as a … continue reading →
