Jewish Heritage Europe

Update: All data (and photos) from 500-year-old Jewish cemetery in Busk, Ukraine are now online

(JHE) — Photographs and data from the 461 surviving headstones in the 500-year-old Jewish cemetery in Busk, Ukraine have now been uploaded and are viewable online. These include the oldest known Jewish headstone in Galicia — that of Yaakov Leizer … continue reading →

Ukraine: Crowdfunding campaign set up to complete the restoration of the Great Maharsha Synagogue in Ostroh, in memory of Grisha Arshynov, who saved it from ruin but died of COVID-19 Nov. 1

In the wake of the death of Hryhoriy (Grisha) Arshynov, who over the past five years spearheaded the restoration of the Great Maharsha Synagogue in Ostroh, a crowd-funding campaign to complete the work has been launched in his honor. Arshynov … continue reading →

Jewish Cemetery Clean-ups Round-up: We publish a fourth round-up of some of the many initiatives that have been going on

(JHE) – Desecrations of Jewish cemeteries make headlines, but all too often the many efforts by volunteers and others to clean and restore them get overlooked or ignored. For the fourth time this year we are publishing a round-up of … continue reading →

Ukraine: Death from COVID-19 of Hryhoriy Arshynov, dynamic Jewish activist who spearheaded the restoration of the Great Maharsha Synagogue and the rescue of the Jewish cemetery in Ostroh

(JHE) — We mourn the death of Hryhoriy (Grisha) Arshynov, a Jewish activist who fought for decades to rescue and preserve the Jewish cemetery in Ostroh, Ukraine — and over the past four years spearheaded the restoration of the town’s … continue reading →