Summer’s here, and the time is right for helping to clean up old Jewish cemeteries in eastern Europe — in particular, to cut grass and weeds, get rid of trash and other seasons work. The vegetation from one wet spring … continue reading →
After Israeli journalist Shimon Briman published an article in the Kiev daily Den (The Day) about Jewish heritage preservation and strategy in L’viv, the L’viv Jewish heritage activist Meylakh Sheykhat published a response in the same newspaper. Since we linked … continue reading →
Lo Tishkach, the massive Jewish cemetery survey and database project, has announced expanded research and documentation of Jewish cemeteries in Ukraine, in cooperation with the Ukrainian Jewish VAAD umbrella group. Beginning in early June, the VAAD will start surveying the … continue reading →
Christian Herrmann, on his Vanished World blog, reports on remnants of a Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsi (Czernowitz) Ukraine that predates the vast cemetery that still exists there. Today’s Jewish cemetery was established in 1866. In the same year the old … continue reading →
The sociologist Anna Susak from the Center for Urban History in L’viv gives a richly fascinating talk on how people in L’viv regard Jewish heritage, history and culture in the city. She was speaking in Riga, Latvia, at the Second International … continue reading →
