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Call for Proposals: Center for Jewish History (NYC) – Scholars Working Groups 2025–2027

NYC Empire state building

We are pleased to share this Call for Proposals from the Center for Jewish History  – – – – –  Call for Proposals: Scholars Working Groups 2025–2027 Application deadline for scholars working groups starting in September 2025: March 3, 2025, … continue reading →

New “Long(er) Reads” Spotlight: The Ukrainian Shtetl. Homecoming to Places of Strength. Photos and text from Eugeny Kotlyar’s US exhibition

Artist, art historian. and Jewish heritage researcher Dr. Eugeny Kotlyar, a professor at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, was forced to flee from Kharkiv to Lviv after Russian forces bombarded the city. In 2022 he wrote a  … continue reading →

Businessman and philanthropist Sigmund (Zygmunt) Rolat, a key figure in the revival of Jewish life and heritage in Poland, has died at 93

Sigmund Rolat, speaking at an event at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow in 2012

We are saddened by the death of the New York-based businessman and philanthropist  Sigmund (Zygmunt) Rolat, a key figure in the post-communist revival of Jewish life and heritage in Poland, who has passed away aged 93. A Holocaust survivor from … continue reading →

RIP Frank Stella. We recall the 2016 exhibition in Warsaw of his work inspired by the destroyed wooden synagogues of Eastern Europe

Cover of the catalogue of the Frank Stella exhibit at POLIN museum

The death of the renowned American artist Frank Stella leads us to recall the major exhibition of his work in 2016, inspired by the destroyed wooden synagogues of Eastern Europe. Stella died Saturday at his home in New York, aged … continue reading →

Poland: Herman Storick z”l 1929-2024. An American descendant of Polish Jews who worked to save the Jewish cemetery in his ancestral village, Jeleniewo

Herman Storck z"l Screen grab

Herman Storick, an American descendant of Polish Jews who worked to save the Jewish cemetery in his ancestral village in northern Poland, has died, aged 94. He lived for many years in Larchmont, NY, and had recently moved to Georgia. … continue reading →