BERLIN (AP).- Recently rediscovered books plundered by the Nazis more than six decades ago were returned to Berlin’s Jewish community on Wednesday in a ceremony at the city’s landmark synagogue. The Berlin Central and Regional Library formally handed o…
Recently Rediscovered Books Plundered by the Nazis Returned to Jewish Community
BERLIN (AP).- Recently rediscovered books plundered by the Nazis more than six decades ago were returned to Berlin’s Jewish community on Wednesday in a ceremony at the city’s landmark synagogue. The Berlin Central and Regional Library formally handed o…
Seventy-Two Years After the Nazis Arrived, Restored Renaissance Synagogue to Reopen in Poland
ZAMOSC (AP).- Seventy-two years after the Nazis arrived, the Polish town of Zamosc is getting its synagogue back. One of the most important surviving synagogues in Poland, a Renaissance gem looted by the Nazis and suffering from decades of neglect, is …
Jewish Museum in Warsaw Now Half-Complete
WARSAW (AP).- Officials say construction of a major new Polish museum on the history of what was once Europe’s largest Jewish community is now half-finished. The Museum of the History of Polish Jews is a skeleton of concrete walls and white winding tub…
New National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia Celebrates Jewish Life
PHILADELPHIA (REUTERS).- Albert Einstein’s pipe, Irving Berlin’s piano and Jonas Salk’s test tubes are just a few of the historic items in a new museum that celebrates Jewish life in America. The National Museum of American Jewish History, which is in …
New National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia Celebrates Jewish Life
PHILADELPHIA (REUTERS).- Albert Einstein’s pipe, Irving Berlin’s piano and Jonas Salk’s test tubes are just a few of the historic items in a new museum that celebrates Jewish life in America. The National Museum of American Jewish History, which is in …
Austrian Panel Recommends Restitution of Four Works of Art
VIENNA (AP).- A commission has recommended that four paintings
contained in a vast Vienna art collection should be returned because
they were
either seized by the Nazis or given up against the will of their former
Jewish
owners, Austria’s Cu…
Austrian Panel Recommends Restitution of Four Works of Art
VIENNA (AP).- A commission has recommended that four paintings contained in a vast Vienna art collection should be returned because they were either seized by the Nazis or given up against the will of their former Jewish owners, Austria’s Culture Minis…
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski’s Phantasmagorical Paintings at Hauser & Wirth
New
York, NY – Jakub Julian Ziolkowski’s phantasmagorical
paintings
roil with colorful mutant life: plants sprout eyeballs, bodies go about
their
business while sloughing off limbs and disgorging organs, and dense
vegetal
landscape…
Rudolf Leopold, Austrian Art Collector, Dies Today at 85
VIENNA (AP).- Rudolf Leopold, who assembled Austria’s largest private art collection, including works allegedly stolen by the Nazis, died Tuesday at the age of 85. Leopold died at a hospital in the Austrian capital after suffering multiple organ failur…