Jewish Heritage Europe

L’viv: “Jewish Days at City Tower” educational public program

    A rich, public Jewish heritage program that combines lectures,  round-table discussions and on-site presentations is currently under way in L’viv, Ukraine. “Jewish Days at City Tower” started July 28 and continues until August 10. It  centers on the … continue reading →

L’viv: Work to begin on “Space of Synagogues” memorial site

According to city officials in L’viv, on-site work is to begin this week on the “Space of Synagogues”  project, which will memorialize destroyed synagogues in the heart of the city’s former downtown Jewish quarter. A press release states that the … continue reading →

Historic images of Jewish heritage in Eastern Europe from An-sky expeditions

  We would like to signal an extraordinary four-part series of videos put together by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter based on the collections of the Jewish author, playwright and researcher S. An-sky, who led a series of ethnographic expeditions in 1912-1914 … continue reading →

Be inspired! Photo documentation of Sataniv synagogue restoration

We already posted about the award-winning restoration of the 16th century fortress synagogue in Sataniv, Ukraine and published pictures of the building (by Christian Herrmann). The blog Tarnopol1540 has now published an extraordinary series of photographs and videos detailing the … continue reading →