Introduction
Friends, welcome to the 11th issue of our Newsletter.
I hope you, your families and communities are all keeping safe and well during these unprecedented and troubling tims.
MST Conversations
We are delighted to launch a new service to Scroll Holder communities, a short live presentation by an MST Volunteer to your community, using an online video meeting system. The first Conversations have already taken place. Lois Roman has given Zoom talks to Cheders in USA. Jeffrey Ohrenstein has given presentations to a Jewish Community in Prague, Czechia. We think that this is an exciting way of getting Scroll Holder communities more involved with their Czech scrolls. See the invitation from Lois below.
Virtual Visits to the Czech Torah Museum
The Museum is currently closed to visits by the public. We are able to offer virtual visits with Q&A sessions. Please contact us at info@memorialscrollstrust.org
New Scroll Holder Communities
We have made new Scroll loans to communities in Canada, Switzerland, Australia and the USA during the past year. Although all viable Czech Torah scrolls were allocated many years ago, when Scroll Holder communities close, or merge with another of our scroll-holders, their scrolls must be returned to us and become available for new loans.
Czech Torah webpage project
Our webpage project has now made over 400 links here. Our goal is to link over 1000 scroll-holders around the world. If your community has not yet added a page to your website about your Czech scroll we hope you will soon do so. Please contact us if you need any assistance. When your page is live, let us know and we will then list you on our website.
The Czech Scroll Towns Project
Our website now lists the towns our scrolls came from, together with information about their Jewish history and the fate of their Jews. In addition to information, we shall be adding photos. We have been extremely fortunate and are very grateful to Sheila Pallay and her husband Herb, who kindly volunteered to visit the Czech Republic to photograph synagogues and other places of Jewish interest. Eventually you will see their photos on the Towns section.
We are offering the opportunity to list links against each Scroll Holder town, initially starting with Wikipedia pages. We offer the opportunity to volunteers to research links on a particular Town or on a particular subject across a set of Scroll Towns, for example on Transport Lists, on practical visit information, on Jewish genealogy related to our towns. Contact us for more information on how to record and send us links.
Jewish Museums
We have started to add a list of Jewish themed Museums and Galleries across the world. If you spot a Jewish themed museum or cultural institution that should be on this list, then let us know. We especially hope that someone can research and record the small town museums often built in old synagogues in Bohemia and Moravia.
Jeffrey Ohrenstein,
Chairman
PS We publish many short articles and Czech Scroll Museum visitor pictures on our Facebook page - please click Facebook Like to keep in touch with us.
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