Last month, I watched as bulldozers began to demolish parts of the adjacent remnants of what was once one of Europe’s most beautiful synagogue complexes: the 16th-century Golden Rose in Lviv. Most of ...
I used to visit Lviv, the beautiful, cosmopolitan-looking city in western Ukraine with its attractive mix of Italian, Austrian and Slavic architecture. It is in a much fought-over part of Europe and ...
Testifying to a rich Jewish past, museums in the western Ukrainian city of Lvov hold hundreds of Jewish artifacts that once belonged to local synagogues and Jewish institutions. Now the few practicing ...
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a Sept. 2 story that referenced the 1941 attack by Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union, The Associated Press called the two former allies. In 1939, despite sharp ideological ...
Jews in Lvov, Ukraine, say that returning religious artifacts held in the city’s museums to synagogues and Jewish institutions can help reinvigorate a once-proud community. LVOV, Ukraine, Dec. 27 (JTA ...