Monthly Archive: October, 2013

OVER 500 YEARS OF THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN BITOLA, MONASTIR IN TODAY’S MACEDONIA

The Jewish Cemetery in Bitola, opened in 1497, only a few years after the Spanish Inquisition when Sephardic Jews were already settling down in the area. A testimony to centuries of Sephardic history… Continue reading

THE MANHATTAN SYNAGOGUE WHERE PEOPLE LIVE THAT WAS ROMANIAN, THEN POLISH AND SINCE 1973

an apartment building The Adath Jeshurun of Jassy Synagogue, then Ersthe Warshaver.nwas originally constructed in 1903 as Adath Jeshurun of Jassy Synagogue, for a group of Jews from Iasi, Romania. It was subsequently… Continue reading

“…AND THIS PLACE IS NOTHING ELSE BUT A HOUSE OF GOD…”

The Synagogue in Baja, in Southern Hungary, keeps its Hebrew sign stating that it is still a House of God. The synagogue, built in 1845 was transformed in the last years into a… Continue reading

THE SYNAGOGUE OF THE PEOPLE OF AKHALTSIKHE IN TBILISI

The Great synagogue in Tbilisi, in the former Soviet republic of Georgia in Central Asia, was opened exactly 110 years by immigrants from the south of Georgia coming from the city of Akhaltsikhe

FROML GALITZIA TO NEW YORK: YIDDISH, STYLE AND BEAUTY IN ONE ACTING STAR: BERTHA KALICH

The Jewish actress, born in today’s Lvov, Ukraine, was one of the first Yiddish stars in Broadway. Her burial can be found at the Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, Queens in New York

THE FIRST HEBREW INSCRIPTION OF BETHLEHEM IS 2700 YEAR OLD

The 1.5 cm discovery is the oldest proof of the existence of Bethlehem in the First Temple period and was found in Jerusalem . AT THE ISRAEL MUSEUM