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Latvia: Restoration of Rezekne Green Synagogue moves forward
Good news on the decade-long project to restore the wooden “Green Synagogue” in Rezekne, Latvia. Here is a cross post from Samuel D. Gruber’s Jewish art and monuments blog: Latvia: Rezekne Green...
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The Night of the Museums — May 18
May 18 is International Museum Day, an annual event established in 1977 by the International Council of Museums. In 2012, 32,000 museums from 129 countries on five continents took part — and this year...
View ArticlePost-Holocaust Collective (Non)memory in L’viv
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...
View ArticleJewish Cemeteries in Latvia & Ukraine that need markers/maintenance
The Lo-Tishkach Foundation European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative has provided valuable lists of dozens of Jewish cemeteries and mass grave sites in parts of Ukraine and Latvia that need marking,...
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Wooden Synagogues Route added to AEPJ web site
The Association for the Preservation and Promotion of European Jewish Culture and Heritage (AEPJ) has added a second route to its European Routes of Jewish Heritage section. This one is a Route of...
View ArticleNew digital uploads of old synagogue postcards from the Rosenthall collection
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...
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Riga Ghetto Museum roof damaged in storm; appeals for help
The Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust museum has issued an appeal for aid after strong winds last month blew off part of the Museum’s roof. Firefighters removed the hanging part of the roof, but rain...
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Revisiting an old question: Are the old synagogues of eastern Europe worth...
In a compelling essay for Moment Magazine, Phyllis Myers, a conservation policy and politics adviser to governments and private groups, returns to consider a question she first addressed some 25 years...
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Posing the question — in 1990: should old synagogues in eastern Europe be saved
Our previous post highlighted an article by Phyllis Myers in this month’s Moment Magazine in which she poses the old question: should old synagogues in eastern Europe be saved? Her answer — and ours...
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Renovation plans for the Great Synagogue in Ludza, Latvia
The Great Synagogue of Ludza, Latvia — the oldest surviving synagogue in the country — is currently undergoing renovation that will transform it into a museum. Ilya Lensky, of the Jews in Latvia Museum...
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Exhibit shows models of destroyed Latvian synagogues
The Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum has constructed models of 21 of the more than 200 synagogues that stood in Latvia before World War II. Reuters reports: There were 210 synagogues in Latvia...
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Congratulations to Riga Ghetto Museum for online award nomination
Mazel tov to the Riga Ghetto Museum, whose recently redesigned web site has been nominated for a “Webby” award in the cultural institutions category. The Webbys are awarded by the International...
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Sergey Kravtsov on the Value & Preservation of Jewish Built Heritage
Sergey Kravtsov, Senior Research Associate at the Center for Jewish Art in Jerusalem, has written a thoughtful op-ed on the value and preservation of Jewish religious heritage in Europe, published on...
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April Jewish Heritage Newsletter is online
Our monthly newsletter for April is now online, summarizing the news we have posted over the past month from countries such as Poland, Italy, Latvia, Turkey, Spain and more. Appearing on Yom ha Shoah,...
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Latvia: Restoration of wooden “Green Synagogue” in Rezekne progresses
The long-delayed restoration of the wooden “Green Synagogue” in Rezekne, Latvia — built around 1845 and one of the few wooden synagogues still standing in Europe — is progressing, with the target...
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November JHE Newsletter is out!
The November Jewish Heritage Europe Newsletter is out — news from Lithuania, UK, Ukraine, Slovakia, Latvia, Poland …. We hope, of course, that you have signed up and get the Newsletter delivered...
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Latvia: Ludza Great Synagogue restoration nears completion
Restoration of the historic Great Synagogue in Ludza, Latvia — dating from around 1800 and the oldest surviving synagogue in the country — is nearing completion, with work slated to be finished in...
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Latvia: Restored Rezekne Green Synagogue to be rededicated
The historic wooden Green Synagogue in Rezekne, Latvia will be reopened January 22 as a wooden architectural heritage center and cultural space with an exhibition about Jewish heritage, following a...
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Latvia: look at the restored Ludza Great Synagogue!
Ilya Lensky, of the of the Jews in Latvia Museum in Riga, has sent us this photo, from the Ludza City Council, taken January 13, showing the restored exterior of the Great Synagogue in Ludza. As...
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Latvia: Video of opening of restored Rezekne “Green Synagogue”
Here’s a video of the (snowy) official ceremony January 22 opening the historic wooden “Green Synagogue” in Rezekne, Latvia after a €700,000 renovation process that lasted a decade. The building – as...
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