"Judaism From a different perspective". That is my strongest impression from today. We started with a tour in the Jutish district were I first come across with the Jutish hungary...
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On Wednesday, the 14th of September, I went to meet Lucia Heilman at the Tel-Aviv cinematheque, as we had decided at our meeting this last summer in Vienna. When I...
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BUDAPEST -- Back in the early 1990s, I picked my way through Budapest's enormous main Jewish cemetery, trying to find the grave of Lipot Baumhorn, an architect who was long-forgotten...
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Wine merchants and wonder. Off the beaten path in northeastern Hungary Tens of thousands of Jewish tourists make their way every year to Budapest. The Hungarian capital is a bustling...
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BUDAPEST -- The last time I wrote about Budapest on Centropa I provided an itinerary of Jewish sights and resources, most of them in and around the city's Seventh District...
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An Overview When I lived in Vienna years ago, I would often take off for Budapest for a weekend, just to have fun. I'd usually make the three-hour trip by...
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photo taken by Magnus von Koeller , on July 3, 2006, CC licensing Vienna looms large in Jewish history and memory. The imperial Habsburg capital was the vibrant hub of...
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photo taken by Stewart Morris , on June 25, 2005, CC licensing Trieste sits at the end of long sliver of Italy that curves around the northeastern corner of the...
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Dzialoszyce, Poland The first time I visited Dzialoszyce, a dusty village about 50 kilometers northeast of Krakow, an elderly woman approached as I stood with several companions, gazing at the...
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A mighty hand reaches out and, forming a tight fist, grasps the bough of a tree and breaks it sharply off. The image is extraordinary, even surreal. It is so...
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(Gustav Mahler, 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) The years 2010 and 2011 mark a memorable double anniversary for the great conductor and composer Gustav Mahler -- 150 years...
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It's more than ten years since the end of the bloody series of wars that broke apart the former Yugoslavia and made much of the Balkan peninsula a strictly no-go...
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PRAGUE -- Lying between the Vltava River and the Old Town Square, Prague's medieval "Jewish Town," Josefov, is one of the most popular attractions in a magical "golden city" that...
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On an overcast afternoon not long ago, two friends and I found ourselves plodding to and fro amid a forest of crooked gravestones in the centuries-old Jewish cemetery in Bolekhiv...
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Krakow, Poland's historic royal capital, lives and breathes historic memory. Its magnificent main market Square, the Rynek Glowny, serves as a vast urban living room at the heart of a...
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Slovenia is a spectacular lozenge of territory smack in the heart of central Europe. From its Alpine peaks to its Adriatic beaches, from its mirrorlike lakes to its bustling baroque...
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In the 14 years since the Velvet Revolution toppled the old communist regime, Prague has become one of Europe's top travel destinations. But there is so much to see and...
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photo taken by Miroslav Petrasko , on January 29, 2002, CC licensing TRNAVA, SLOVAKIA -- Slovakia lies in the heart of Europe and boasts magnificent scenery, gems of architecture, vivid...
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photo taken by lifebeginsat50mm , on Fevruary 24, 2008, CC licensing BIELSKO-BIALA, POLAND Column published on 20.08.2009 - ©: all pictures by Ruth Ellen Gruber (except where notified) -- Before...
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When I look at a map, I always feel that the most remote part of Poland is that little triangle of territory in the far southeast of the country that...
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