Wielkie Oczy, Poland. Synagogue in 2006, before restoration. Photo: Ludek (ISJM) The Wielkie Oczy Foundation, Inc., created by survivors and descendants of the Wielkie Oczy Jewish community, have posted several videos of their ongoing efforts to restored the ruined synagogue to be a library for the town. Read More »

Call for Papers L’viv, Ukraine. Tzori Gilod Synagogue. Ceiling/wall painting, dtl. (before ‘restoration’). Photo: Samuel D. Read More »

This will surely be a day of interesting discussion…unfortunately the schedule doesn’t go into more detail about specific topics. THE ART OF BEING JEWISH IN THE CITYThursday, March 15, 2012 Edward H. Rosen Hillel Center Temple University (Philadelphia) 1441 Norris (corner of N. Read More »

Poland: Renovation Plans and Virtual Tour of Przysucha Synagogue Przysucha, Poland. Synagogue. Photo: Ruth Ellen Gruber (1990s) Przysucha, Poland. Synagogue. Read More »

Vilnius, Lithuania. Flame of Hope. Photo from Foundation for the Arts Cross posted from Defending History.com The Hidden Monument of Vilnius 11 February 2012 In response to several requests from the United States, DefendingHistory. Read More »

Remembering Texas’s Don Teter Texas Jewish history expert Donald Lee Teter died in Houston on January 26, 2012, at 86. Don was a founder of the Texas Jewish Historical Society and the Baytown Historical Museum. Read More »

Cross-posted from Jewish Heritage Europe Poland — Belzec Monument as Architectural Masterpiece Virtual Shtetl reports that the extraordinary monument memorial at the former Belzec Nazi death camp in southeast Poland is among 15 structures in the Read More »

Kosovo: Pristina Partisans’ Monuments To read about the Partisans’ monument in Pristina, Kosovo, see me blog Public Art and Memory. Pristina, Kosovo. Partisans’ Monument, detail of vandalism. Read More »

Publication: The Turei Zahav (Golden Rose) Synagogue in L’viv L’viv, Ukraine. Golden Rose Synagogue ruin. Photo: Samuel D. Gruber (2008). Ukraine-born, L’viv-trained and Israeli-based architectural historian Sergey R. Read More »

Pristina, Kosovo. “New” Jewish Cemetery. Photos: Ivan Ceresnjes (2012) Kosovo: Can New Treaty Stop Continued Deterioration of “New” Jewish Cemetery of Pristina? by Samuel D. Gruber (ISJM) The fate of long-neglected Jewish sites in the newly independent small and poor country of Kosovo has recently received some attention. On December 14, 2011, U.S. Read More »

Publication: Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, 5 The fifth volume of the journal of Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture (2011) is published and is available online and in print at: http: //www.brill. Read More »

Jewish Heritage Europe Retooled, Redesigned and Relaunched Jewish-Heritage-Europe.eu, an ambitious website intended to collate new and information about Jewish historic, religious and cultural sites in Europe funded by the Rothschild Foundation and active especially in 2006-2007, has been entirely redesigned and updated. Read More »

USA: Olean, New York Synagogue (1929) Added to National Register of Historic Places Two weeks ago I gave a lecture about New York synagogues, with special attention given to the large numbers of historic structures that have been named local protected sites and/or added to the National Register of Historic Places. Read More »

Holocaust Memorials in American Jewish Cemeteries Jerry Klinger, who through through the not-for -profit Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation has organized the creation and installation of historical and commeorative markers at the many Read More »

Cross posted from Jewish Heritage Travel Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Czech Republic — vandalism at Puklice Jewish cemetery By Ruth Ellen Gruber Vandals have damaged or toppled about 10 gravestones in the centuries-old Jewish cemetery in Puklice, near Jihlava. Read More »

Bulgaria: Survey of Jewish Sites Published The United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad has published a survey of Jewish Historic Monuments and Sites in Bulgaria, including information on the location, history and condition of synagogues and cemeteries. Read More »

Jewish Heritage Travel: Serbia — Concern at condition of historic Nis Jew…: Vandalized tomb in Nis Cemetery, Dec. 22, 2011. Photo courtesy of Jasna Ciric By Ruth Ellen Gruber More than seven years after a well-… Read More »

Berlin, Germany. Rosenstrasse Protest Monument. Ingeborg Hunzinger, artist. Monument installed 1995. Photo: Samuel D. Gruber.Women of Ravenbruck. Exhibit at Florida Holocaust Museum. Read More »

Miami Beach, Fl. Temple Menorah, 1962. Morris Lapidus, arch. From D. Desilets, Morris Lapidus: The Architecture of Joy (New York: Rizzoli, 2010), 167. This photo is now part of the Lapidus Collection at Syracuse University.USA: Syracuse University Library has acquired the personal papers of architect Morris Lapidus. Read More »

Prague, Czech Rep. Spanish Synagogue addition. Karel Pecanek, arch. (1935). Photo: Samuel D. GruberBrno, Czech Rep. Agudas Ahim Synagogue, Brno. Otto Eisler, arch. (1936). Photo: Samuel D. Gruber (2004).Nis, Serbia. Former Synagogue. 1920s? Photo: Veljko N.Leeds, England. Former Leeds New Synagogue. J. Stanley Wright, arch. (1929-1932). Read More »