Jewish cemetery in Kosice, Slovakia, vandalized
Vandals have toppled or otherwise damaged 55 tombstones in the old Orthodox section of the Jewish cemetery in Kosice, Slovakia. The damage — amounting to 50,000 euro — was discovered on Monday...
View ArticleJewish Cemetery in Austria vandalized, apparently by drunken revelers
Five gravestones in the historic Jewish cemetery in Hohenems, in Austria’s far-western Voralberg Region, have been vandalized, but it was apparently the work of drunken revelers attending a festival...
View ArticleGravestones desecrated in Vienna
Vandals have toppled or damaged 43 gravestones in the Jewish section of Vienna’s Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery). Police are investigating. “We are deeply dismayed at this level of vandalism,”...
View ArticleVandalism at Jewish Cemetery in Lodz
Police are investigating a vandal attack that damaged or destroyed more than 20 gravestones in the sprawling Jewish cemetery in Lodz, Poland. The damage was discovered on Tuesday. Among the destroyed...
View ArticleAlarm raised over condition of Jewish cemetery in Mysłowice, Poland
Alarm has been raised over the condition of the abandoned 18th century Jewish cemetery in Mysłowice, in southern Poland. Virtual Shtetl reports that the Mysłowice town office, the Jewish Religious...
View ArticleJewish cemetery in Warsaw returned to community
Warsaw’s Brodno Jewish cemetery, founded in the 18th century, has been returned to Jewish ownership. The cemetery has been heavily vandalized over the years, despite some attempts at restoration,...
View ArticleA forgotten Jewish cemetery — in Los Angeles…
We are used to pained and evocative — even shocked and/or outraged — descriptions of abandoned Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe. In an article this week, the Los Angeles Times echoes these...
View ArticlePreservation of Jewish Cemeteries in the News
JTA runs a story about the burdens of caring for Jewish cemeteries in Europe. The issues are familiar to readers of this web site — and anyone involved in the field, and it is good that they are...
View ArticleAt risk abandoned English synagogue defaced; decaying
The Jewish Chronicle in London runs a disturbing article about the landmark listed former synagogue in Sunderland, in northern England, which “now stands blighted by drug dealers, arsonists and metal...
View ArticleDovid Katz: On the Use & Misuse of Jewish Gravestones & Memory
In our In Focus section on Issues, we post a link to a powerful op-ed in the Times of Israel by the Yiddishist Dovid Katz about the use and misuse of Jewish gravestones and memory. He focuses on one...
View ArticleVandalism in Jewish cemetery in Subotica, Serbia
Vandals toppled, damaged or destroyed 39 grave markers in the Jewish cemetery in Subotica, Serbia last week — the vandalism is believed to have taken place the night of July 10. The web site...
View ArticleVandalism at Zamosc Synagogue
There are plenty of episodes of vandalism of Jewish sites, and we do not tend to report on every one of them — particularly not when the vandals’ tool is spray paint. But this episode in Poland...
View ArticleCultural heritage and tourism: Who pays for preservation?
Opening Jewish heritage sites to tourism is one of the goals of preservation, restoration and promotion of these historic, fascinating (and often splendid) places. It allows them to be visited and...
View ArticleReport on the April 2013 conference on Managing Jewish Immovable Heritage
We are pleased to post the downloadable pdf of the report brochure on the international conference Managing Jewish Immovable Heritage, held in Krakow in April 2013. Click here to download the PDF of...
View ArticleJewish cemetery in Subotica, Serbia vandalized
According to the news site InSerbia, vandals struck the Jewish cemetery in Subotica, Serbia the night of Feb. 10-11, damaging nine gravestones. It was the third episode of vandalism against the...
View ArticleSynagogue in Simferopol (Crimea) needs urgent repairs
The reform synagogue in Simferopol, the capital of Crimea, was in the headlines recently when vandals defaced its walls with anti-Semitic graffiti. The World Union of Progressive Judaism has now...
View ArticleOld Jewish cemetery in Split, Croatia, vandalized
The historic Jewish cemetery in Split, Croatia suffered vandalism earlier this month, when unknown persons forced open three graves and damaged their tombstones and iron fences. A fourth gravestone...
View ArticleGood & bad news cemetery briefs, from Poland and Hungary
A quick round-up of some recent Jewish cemetery developments: GOOD (AND GOODISH) NEWS Restored Cemetery The Jewish cemetery in Głogów Małopolski, Poland was rededicated on May 12 after fencing and...
View ArticleU.S. bill on protecting Jewish (and other) cemeteries worldwide passes House
Legislation that would make the desecration of cemeteries – including Jewish cemeteries around the world – a violation of religious freedom has passed the U.S. House of Representatives and will now...
View ArticleOpen air Jewish museum opens in Radomsko, Poland
An open-air Jewish museum marking places of Jewish history in Radomsko, Poland opened on June 2 with a ceremony attended by the ambassadors of Israel and Germany and other VIPs. The museum, a sort of...
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