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Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici    Lettonia: è venuto a mancare all’età di cent’anni lo storico Margers Vestermanis, fondatore e per molti anni direttore del museo “Ebrei in Lettonia”, insignito di ... continue reading →... Read more

The historian Margers Vestermanis, the award-winning founder and long-time former director of the “Jews in Latvia” museum, has died, aged 100. Vestermanis, the only one of his family to survive the Holocaust, headed a group of survivors who founded the ... continue reading →... Read more

The Belgrade Jewish community has been carrying out extensive preservation, restoration, and improvement work at its Jewish cemeteries including the restoration of the main cemetery chapel. Work has been going on in both the large Sephardic cemetery as well as ... continue reading →... Read more

The  restored wooden synagogue in Alanta has reopened as part of the Molėtai Regional Museum. It will serve as a venue for exhibitions and cultural events. The small, simple synagogue, which was used as a warehouse for grain and fertilizer ... continue reading →... Read more

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici    Ungheria: il caratteristico cancello a forma di salice piangente del più celebre monumento in stile Art Nouveau del cimitero ebraico di via Kozma a Budapest ... continue reading →... Read more

The distinctive “weeping willow” gate from the most famous art nouveau tomb in Budapest’s Kozma utca Jewish cemetery has been removed. Apparent online evidence suggests it was stolen. The turquoise blue tomb of the Schmidl family was erected in 1902-04 ... continue reading →... Read more

An open air ethnographic museum in Transylvania is installing a former Jewish house from a small village in  northwest Romania. Once reconstructed on site, it will include an installation by noted Israeli sculptor Belu Simion Făinaru commemorating Jews who were ... continue reading →... Read more

Nabatele — a huge hot air balloon representing an Eastern European wooden synagogue — was launched last week over the Venetian lagoon, as a collateral exhibit of the sprawling 61st Venice Biennale international art exhibition. Designed by the Ukraine-born architect, ... continue reading →... Read more

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici    Lituania: il Museo dello Shtetl Perduto ha acquisito la Sinagoga della Fabbrica Frenkel a Šiauliai e la restaurerà per restituirla al culto. L’edificio entrerà inoltre ... continue reading →... Read more

The Lost Shtetl museum in Šeduva has acquired the Chaim Frenkel Factory Synagogue in Šiauliai and plans to reconstruct the dilapidated building for use again as a synagogue. “The brick building […] is currently in a poor condition, so the ... continue reading →... Read more

The development of the Welsh Jewish Cultural Centre in the former synagogue in Merthyr Tydfil will move forward thanks to a new major grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The Heritage Fund announced June 16 that it was awarding ... continue reading →... Read more

The oldest known tombstone in the Jewish cemetery in Timișoara has undergone conservation and restoration. The matzevah, also believed to be the oldest gravestone in Timisoara, dates from 1636 and marks the grave of Azriel Asael, a member of the ... continue reading →... Read more