A ceremony Thursday (Sept. 20) unveiled a memorial at the destroyed Jewish cemetery and officially inaugurated a new, multi-cultural heritage trail in the small town of Gostynin, in central Poland. The new memorial includes a metal cage containing fragments of … continue reading →
Our latest Jewish Heritage Europe monthly Newsletter is out — your can read it online at THIS LINK. News, views, and insights this month from Poland, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Lithuania, France — and more. Our monthly Newsletter is a summary … continue reading →
The newly published second edition of Rediscovering Traces of Memory: The Jewish Heritage of Polish Galicia is a much-needed revised and expanded companion to the permanent exhibition at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow — an exhibition that itself has … continue reading →
An anonymous Polish benefactor is financing the restoration of the Jewish cemetery in Zywiec, in southern Poland. Volunteers organized on Facebook cleaned up the devastated Jewish cemetery in Czechowice-Dziedzice. More than 300 gravestones are uprighted, cleaned, and documented during this summer’s volunteer … continue reading →
The remarkable new book Historical Atlas of Hasidism takes a deep dive into the physical realms of Hasidic Jews since the movement’s founding in eastern Europe the 18th century. Supplementing the text with 74 maps, plus historical and contemporary photographs, … continue reading →
