The Nova Synagoga project restoring the New Synagogue in Zilina, Slovakia and transforming it into an arts center will recognize donors to the €1 million project with an art work. The modernist synagogue, designed by the German architect Peter Behrens and … continue reading →
Rudolf Klein’s photographs of synagogues in central Europe are exhibited in an exhibition associated with the Jewish Culture Festival that is part of European Cultural Capital events in Kosice, Slovakia. The inaugural event is July 18. From the exhibition web … continue reading →
Exciting news from the NGO team currently restoring the important modernist synagogue in Žilina, Slovakia that was designed by the German architect Peter Behrens — original copies of Behrens’s project for the building, thought to be definitively lost, have been found … continue reading →
In the current issue of Hadassah Magazine, JHE Coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber describes the Slovak Jewish Heritage Route and briefly profiles most of the two dozen or so sites on the network. In a lengthy article, illustrated with her photos, … continue reading →
JTA runs a story about the burdens of caring for Jewish cemeteries in Europe. The issues are familiar to readers of this web site — and anyone involved in the field, and it is good that they are getting … continue reading →
