It's a medieval treasure trove worth an estimated quarter of a billion dollars, filled with gold crosses studded with gems and intricate silverwork. For years, it's been at the center of a dispute between a Berlin museum foundation and the heirs of Holocaust-era Jewish art dealers.
German-Jewish author Marcel Reich-Ranicki, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto who fled Poland and became a prominent cultural figure in postwar Germany as a distinguished literary critic and a popular television talk show host, died in Frankfurt at the age of 93.
Shalom Sofia, the first festival of Jewish culture in the Bulgarian capital city, will be held on September 15 2013, beginning after the end of this year’s Yom Kippur, The Sofia Globe reported.
In the wake of protests from the Hungarian Jewish community and the World Jewish Congress, Budapest Mayor István Tarlós has ordered a review of the decision to name a street in the Hungarian capital's Second District after the writer Cécile Tormay (1876-1937), who was openly anti-Semitic and one of the favorite authors of Miklós Horthy, the regent of Hungary from 1920 to 1944.
An young Israeli pianist, Boris Giltburg, is among the twelve finalists of the Brussels Queen Elisabeth Competition, one of the most prestigious in the world.
Doyen of the documentary film genre, French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann was honoured with an Homage and awarded the Honorary Golden Bear for his lifetime achievement at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival.
