JHR: Spring and Summer 1998

JEWISH HERITAGE REPORT
The Newsletter of the International Survey of Jewish Monuments (ISJM)
Vol II, Nos. 1-2 / Spring-Summer 1998
[List of JHR Issues]

From the President … 1

ISJM Announces Prizes to Encourage Quality Surveys

Repairs Begin for Paradesi Synagogue in Cochin, India …1

ISJM Planning to Survey Indian Jewish Sites

ISJM News: 1997-1998 Project Support …9

World News and Updates …12

• Oldest Synagogue Found Near Jericho (12)

• Emmendingen Synagogue May Be Returned, Restored for Jewish Use (12)

• Squatter Fixes London Synagogue (13)

• Long-Planned Conservation of Venice’s Old Jewish Cemetery Begins (13)

• Mixed News on Ukrainian Sites (13)

• Painted Prayer House Discovered in Warsaw’s Praga District (14)

• Prague’s Spanish Synagogue Enters Final Restoration Phase (14)

• New Synagogues Slated for Former Society Bloc (15)

• Dresden to Build Synagogue on Site of Kristallnacht Destruction (15)

• New Hungarian Synagogues and Monuments Dedicated (15)

• Hi-Tech Synagogue Proposed for Leeds, England (16)

• Georgian Theater Troop Fails to Return Synagogue to Jews (16)

• Israeli Chief Rabbi Requests Lithuania Torahs (16)

• Changes at Auschwitz (17)

• First Person: Cemeteries Outside Cemeteries by Tomasz Wisnieiwski (18)

• Polish Cemetery Caretakers to be Honored (19)

Report from U.S. Commission for Preservation …20
News from the Commission
Jewish Monuments in Slovenia by Ruth E. Gruber & Samuel Gruber

Vandalism …28

• Bombs Damage Synagogues in Riga and Moscow (28)

• Philadelphia Cemetery Vandalized (28)

• Los Angeles Synagogue Attacks Remain Unsolved (28)

• Montreal Cemetery Vandalized (28)

• London, Ontario Shuls Attacked by Arsonist (28)

• Romanian Synagogue Plundered (28)

• Siberian Cemetery Violated … Again (28)

• Moscow Cemetery Vandalized (28)

• German Cemetery Desecrated (29)

• Fire Damages Jewish Sites in Estonia (29)

• Warsaw Cemetery Attacked (29)

Newsmakers …29

Special Report: The Jews of Ireland by Paul Margolis …30

Museums and Exhibitions …32
New York’s Jewish Museum’s Collection Enhanced

Book Notices and Reviews …32

Franco Bonilaur and Vincenza Maugerii

Musei ebraici in Europa: Orientamenti e Prospettive 32

Michael Brocke, Eckehart Ruthenberg, Kai Uwe Schulenburg

Stein und Name 32

Joan Young Gregg,

Devils, Women, and Jews: Reflections of the Other in Medieval Sermon Stories 33

Letters …34
• From Rabbi Andrew Goldstein

United States Report …35

• Paterson, New Jersey, Santuary Threatened (35)

• New York’s Landmarks Conservancy Awards Grants to Synagogues (36)

• New York’s Romaniote Synagogue Welcomes Visitors (35)

• Vilna Shul Update (35)

• Replacement of Ohabei Shalom’s (Brookline, MA) Copper Dome (36)

• Repairs at Oldest DC Synagogue (36)

• Los Angeles’s Breed Street Shul Saved by Politicians (36)

• Gomez Mill House--Marlboro, NY (36)

• Las Vegas, New Mexico, Restores Jewish Sites (36)

Canadian Report …38

• Lack of Parking May Doom Ottawa’s Oldest Synagogue by Hagit Hadaya (38)

• Quebec Preserves Bagg Street Shul (38)

• Klondike Cemetery Restoration (39)

Membership ... 39

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