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Article: Rescuing the Last Traces of Eastern European Jewry
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- February 17, 1995
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Rachel Blustain
Forward
02-17-1995
Rescuing the Last Traces of Eastern European Jewry.
NEW YORK -- In a few weeks, Michael Lewan will take the helm of the United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad. No, he won't be promoting apple pie and "The Stars and Stripes Forever" overseas. Rather, as head of the commission -- despite its New World title -- Mr. Lewan, who is Catholic, will be seeking to preserve what's left of Old World Eastern European Jewish life: its cemeteries.
With the obliteration of whole communities of Jews in that region and the subsequent rise of communism there, scores of Jewish cemeteries were left without caretakers. Over the years, the ...