Virtual Shtetl has posted the full text of the PhD thesis (University of Timisoara, Romania) by Florence Luxenberg-Eisenberg, focusing on the preservation and management of Holocaust memorial sites. (It also runs an interview with her, conducted by Krzysztof Bielawski). … continue reading →
We are happy to pass along this call for papers for a conference in Warsaw, June 10, 2014 CfP: New Research on Memory in Eastern Europe (Ukraine and Belarus) Date and venue: Warsaw, June 10, 2014 Deadline for proposals: … continue reading →
We forward this call for papers for the 12th International Conference “Lviv: City – Society – Culture” which will be held at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and the Center for Urban History, May 29-31, 2014. The conference, dedicated to Lviv’s … continue reading →
View Larger Map An ambitious, international “Shtetl Routes” tourism itinerary through a score or more of towns in the Poland-Belarus-Ukraine border region is under development with a more than €400,000 grant from the European Union’s Cross-border Cooperation Programme Poland-Belarus-Ukraine … continue reading →
The Low Country Digital Library at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, has uploaded 430 postcards of central and eastern European synagogues from the Rabbi William A. Rosenthall Collection of Judaica, which is held at the College. Rosenthall was the rabbi at … continue reading →
