The Jewish heritage

a jiddis örömei

• The joys of Yiddish and the three sisters
• Yinglish shop label in New York, 1908

the holy tongue

• Covarrubias and the roots of Spanish
• The four letters of God
• The Kaufmann collection 1
• The Kaufmann collection 2

Scriptures

• Leviathans and archangels
• The birth of Lilith
• The Ziz bird

impressions

• 5772: Old postcards for Rosh Hashanah
• Who was Essad Bey?
• Rome, Via dei Falegnami

wandering melodies

• The rooster is crowing, a Hasid song
• The rooster is crowing for the second time
• The rooster has crowed: Muzsikás 2012
• The rooster is crowing in Georgia
• The nightingale is singing again
• Forgotten Jewish village music
• A wandering melody from the Balkans
• Bella ciao, a Klezmer song?
• Sephardic songs
• A Yiddish revolutionary poem and the Lenin Song

Holy Land

• The ladder of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
• Snowfall in Jerusalem in reality…
• …and on postcard
• Our troops standing at Gaza!
• Tantours

Hungary

• The Jewish cemetery of Nagykónyi
• Assorted wines in Síp street 15
• Walks in the Jewish Quarter
• The medieval synagogue of Buda
• Yellow-star houses
• The yellow-star house of Marcell Komor
• Jewish temples. Relics of a golden age
• The Jewish route of wine of Tokaj

Slovakia

• Jewish cemeteries in Slovakia
• The synagogue in Banská Štiavnica

Bohemia

• Reconstruction of Prague’s Jewish quarter
• Jacob Bassevi, the Jew of three emperors
• Březnice’s Renaissance Jewish quarter and cemetery
• Jewish cemetery in Třebíč
• Synagogue in Hlutschin/Hlučín

Romania

• Hitler’s grave in the Jewish cemetery of Bucharest
• Sighetu Marmaţiei on the day of Elie Wiesel’s death
• Lajos Erdélyi’s photos on Romanian Jewish cemeteries

Serbia

• Russian Jews in Szabadka

Croatia

• A Hebrew sailor in Pula
• The David star on the church of Bale

Bosnia

• Sarajevo’s synagogues

Subcarpathia

• Tekeháza/Теково, Jewish cemetery
• Hasids under the Carpathian mountains
• Jewish raftsmen
• Kőrösmező, railway station and cemetery
• Artúr Blutreich from Kőrösmező

Galicia once

• Saul Wahl, king for a night
• The Jews of Malecz in WWI
• The Jews of Podhajce in WWI
• The Jews of Kolomea greeting Emperor Charles I
• The Galician Jews praying for the victory of Austria
• Photos by Alter Kacyzne from pre-war Poland
• Alter Kacyzne and József Rippl-Rónai
• Roman Vishniac’s children photos
• From Słonim the roads lead everywhere in the world
• Photos by Menachem Kipnis from pre-war Poland
• The cantors of Menachem Kipnis
• The Al Capone of Tarnów
• Photos by German soldiers from the ghettos of Warsaw and Lublin
• The massacres of Lubny and Baby Yar on German photos
• The landscape of Belżec once and now

and now

• Together in Galicia
• A shtetl tour in Galicia
• Traces of the Jews in Galicia
• Four essays on Galicia
• A Jewish heritage tour from Subcarpathia to Odessa
• At the cradle of Galician Hasidism
• Blessing in the Hassidic synagogue of Łańcut
• Lesko, Sephardic synagogue
• Lesko, Jewish cemetery
• Jewish military cemetery in Zaklyczyn
• The memory of the Jews of Lublin
• Memorial lamp in Lublin
• Landscape of Belżec once and now
• Drohobycz and the memory of Bruno Schulz
• Bruno Schulz’s frescoes in Drohobycz
• Bertold Schenkelbach’s photos from Drohobycz, 1930
• New Year in Uman
• Uman in the Biblioteca d’Israele
• Kamenets-Podolsk

Lemberg/Lwów

• The Jewish monuments of Lwów
• The Jewish suburb in Lwów
• The empty places of mezuzahs
• A Yiddish shop label in Lwów
• Jewish books in pre-war Lwów
• Janowska: the last functioning Nazi labor camp
• The birth of the Tango of Death
• Yiddish coffee left to right in Lemberg
• Come with us to Lemberg!
• Further posts on Lwów

Czernowitz

• Burech Bendit
• Purim in Czernowitz
• The cemetery of Czernowitz

Odessa

• Jewish life in Odessa
• Jewish literature in Odessa

Crimea

• Karaite synagogue in Simferopol

Caucasus

• History of the Georgian Jews
• Mountain Jews in Azerbaijan
• Amulett against the evil eye
• Triangular front letter in the language of the Mountain Jews

Turkey

• Harran, city of Abraham
• Urfa, Abraham’s birthplace
• A Russian synagogue in an Istanbul han
• The former Jews of Urfa

Iran

• The tomb of Queen Esther in Persia
• Persian Jewish manuscripts

Morocco

• The Lazama Synagogue in Marrakesh
• The Jewish cave neighborhood in Tamdaght

Austria

• Jewish soldiers in WWI. An exhibition in Vienna
• Juden raus. A children’s game from 1936

Germany

• Lady Veruna’s tombstone in the wall of the Weltenburg Franciscan Monastery, 1200
• Regensburg Jewish quarter
• On the 75th anniversary of the Kristallnacht
• Exhibition about the Kristallnacht

Italy

• The Manili House in the ghetto of Rome
• Rome, Via dei Falegnami
• The Jewish community of Pitigliano, 16-20th c.
• The Jewish quarter of Alghero, Sardinia, 1353-1492
• The three synagogues of the concentration camp

France

• The Jewish cemetery of Nice

Spain

• Qasmūna, a Judeo-Arabic poetess from Granada

Palma de Mallorca

• The ancient Jewish quarter in Palma
• The “clock of the Jews” on the facade of the town hall

Ethiopia

• Ethiopian Jews in Wolleka
• Leviathans and archangels

South Africa

• In search of Adolf Guttmann 1. A survey
• In search of Adolf Guttmann 2. Towards fortune
• In search of Adolf Guttmann 3. Marriages

India

• The Bnei Menasseh Pseudo-Jews