News and Events

At the 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies that took place in Jerusalem in August this year our organization’s activities were presented in two special sessions:

New project recently completed by the JGB Organization presents to the public a unique archival material concerning the Stanisławów Jewry before the World War II.

Meorei Galicia: Encyclopaedia of Galician Sages by rabbi Meir Wunder is one of the most extensive and reliable sources of rabbinical genealogy written in the twentieth century.

As a result of the documentation work that was performed in 2015 by the delegation in the cemetery in Kuty, the tombstone of Rabbi Yosef Epstein, the rabbi of Kuty (Kutov) in the years 1810-1828, was uncovered, together with that of his wife, Gittel the daughter of R. Nahman Zvi Ha-Levi.

The organization’s seventh annual delegation moved beyond the borders of Galicia. This time, our goal was to document one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Bukovina – a cemetery located in the village of Chernohuozyi next to Vizhnitz.

 

להלן תכנית הסדנה:

12:00 – 12:15: התכנסות וכיבוד קל

הערות פתיחה: פרופ' יונתן מאיר

12:15 – 13:40: מושב ראשון

הרצאה: החסידות בגליציה כרדיקליזם דתי: בין קנאות ל'עבירה לשמה'

פרופ' בנימין בראון, האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים