Jewish Heritage Travel
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A blog and web site that updates the book National Geographic Jewish Heritage Travel: a Guide to Eastern Europe
Jewish Heritage Travel
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A visitor takes a picture in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Wroclaw, Poland, long adminstered as a museum of funerary art
Last year I was commissioned by the ESJF (European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative) to write a report on “Jewish Cemeteries and Sustainable Heritage Tourism.”
This has now been published as part of an online handbook on Jewish cemeteries and sustainable tourism.
In my report I examine the history and background of what we can broadly describe as tourism (religious and secular) to cemeteries in general and to Jewish cemeteries in particular, with examples and recom ..read more