Utter Destruction: Inside the Fight Over 'The Most Beautiful Jewish Cemetery in Europe'
An ultra-Orthodox group wanted to repair a neglected 16th-century cemetery in Eastern Europe, but its method for doing this has been described as 'barbarism' by leading scholars and rabbis
When outrage is expressed over the desecration of Jewish graves, or worse, an entire Jewish cemetery, the culprits are usually antisemitic vandals. But in a twist, the biggest threat to some of Europe’s most beautiful Jewish cemeteries are well-intentioned ultra-Orthodox Jews, according to experts in preserving Jewish heritage and art.
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