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February 23, 2010
Hungary -- Update on Jewish Heritage Travel's Hungarian edition
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
I've been informed that the Hungarian language edition of "National Geographic Jewish Heritage Travel" will be launched at the Budapest International Book Festival in April. (I hope this is true, as the pub date has been postponed already a couple of times...)
For anyone in Budapest around that time, I am scheduled to give some sort of presentation at the Book Fair at 5 p.m. on April 23....The Hungarian edition is being published by the Hungarian branch of the parent publi...
I've been informed that the Hungarian language edition of "National Geographic Jewish Heritage Travel" will be launched at the Budapest International Book Festival in April. (I hope this is true, as the pub date has been postponed already a couple of times...)
For anyone in Budapest around that time, I am scheduled to give some sort of presentation at the Book Fair at 5 p.m. on April 23....The Hungarian edition is being published by the Hungarian branch of the parent publi...
February 15, 2010
Poland -- Women's lives and history in Bialystok Jewish Cemetery
Tombstone of Esther, daughter of R. Alperik, in the Bialystok cemetery. The epitaph (trans. by Heidi M.Szpek) reads: "Here lies a proper, God-fearing and upright woman, [in:] secrecy she performed her many righteous deeds. Our beloved and precious mother, Esther daughter of R. Aperdik. She died Tuesday 11th Tishri 5669. May her soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life. [In Russian:] Estera Wolkomirskaya.. She died 24 October 1908." Photo (c) Ruth Ellen GruberJust in time for Purim (whic...
February 13, 2010
Europe -- New Project to Digitize Jewish Cultural Collections
Photos at Jewish Museum, Florence. Photo (c) Ruth Ellen GruberJudaica Europea has just been launched -- it's a 3 million euro project aimed at providing internet access to items Jewish cultural interest in the collections of leading cultural institutions across the continent. It forms part of Europeana, a broader EC project to digitize Europe's cultural resources.
Judaica Europeana will work with European cultural institutions to identify content documenting the Jewish contribution to the...
February 1, 2010
My Web Site is Sort of Down
Just to let you know that my web site -- www.ruthellengruber.com -- is experiencing some difficulties, and if you try to access it you may not succeed... I am trying to resolve the problem.
January 30, 2010
Italy -- Kosher dining in Rome
A kosher cafe in Rome. Photo (c) Ruth Ellen GruberBy Ruth Ellen Gruber
The Forward newspaper runs a piece by food columnist Leah Koenig on kosher dining in Rome, particularly in the old Ghetto area. In the past few years, the Ghetto has undergone considerable development. The main street, via Portico D'Ottavia, is a pedestrian area, the Jewish grade school has moved into the neighborhood, and many new kosher eateries have opened. (Also Judaica stores).
Koenig mentions several places that I my...
January 26, 2010
Budapest -- Bob Cohen leads an audio culinary tour
Me in Froelich's pastry shop in December.
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
I've pointed out a lot of Bob Cohen's wonderful blog posts about food, travel and music and link to his blog, Dumneazu.
But now you can hear him -- Tablet Magazine's audio "Vox Tablet" runs a wonderful 10-minute visit with Bob to two of Budapest's most famous Jewish (or Jewish-style) eateries -- the tiny little Kadar lunchroom on Klauzal ter, and Froelich's kosher pastry shop on Dob utca.
Both are favorites with locals (and a five-mi...
January 25, 2010
Poland -- new visual resources
Tomek Wisniewski has set up a YouTube channel where he has been posting both current and pre-WW2 images of Jewish sites, both photographic and film. (He also shows some non-Jewish sites.)
January 22, 2010
Greece -- Arrests in Hania Crete Synaogogue Arson attacks
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
The BBC reports that arrests have been made in the two arson attacks this month that serious damaged the historic Etz Hayyim synagogue in Hania, Crete. In custody are a Greek man and two British men -- waiters in local restaurants -- and two Americans are sought.
The BBC reports that arrests have been made in the two arson attacks this month that serious damaged the historic Etz Hayyim synagogue in Hania, Crete. In custody are a Greek man and two British men -- waiters in local restaurants -- and two Americans are sought.
The BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens said [that:], according to the police, the men are aged 23 and 33 and are nightclub waiters in the seaside town. Police said they were arrested after a 24-year-old Greek man...
January 21, 2010
Eastern Europe -- Initiative to protect mass grave sites
Marker at the site of mass execution/mass grave in Kremenets, Ukraine. Photo (c) Ruth Ellen Gruber
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
A international initiative to mark, document and protect sites of Holocaust mass execution and burial is under way, and at a conference in Berlin this week groups taking part urged the German government to become involved.
The American Jewish Committee news release announcing this was not very clear about just what this was about, but one of the participants said that specific...
January 20, 2010
Poland -- Wroclaw synagogue: restoration of interior complete
Photo from Gazeta Wroclawska newspaper. Click HERE
Gazeta Wroclawska newspaper reports that the restoration of the interior of the historic White Stork Synagogue in Wroclaw has been completed. The article is in Polish (it translates with Google translate) but also runs pictures you can see by clicking HERE.
The synagogue is to be rededicated in May. The article states that interior furnishings will be installed in April.
I posted previous information on the restoration in Decemb...
