Jurbarkas cemetery

Subject: Restoration of the Jewish Cemetery in Yurburg (Jurbarkas) ~ an e-publicationFrom: Judith27@aol.comDate: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:42:54 EDTX-Message-Number: 1Dear LitvakSIGdom, Your LitvakSIG Online Journal is pleased to announce the e-publication of an article about the "Restoration of the Jewish Cemetery in Yurburg (Jurbarkas), Lithuania" by Joel Alpert. Joel traveled to western Lithuania in June 2007 to take part in an unusual collaborative project that resulted in the restoration of the Jewish cemetery in the hometown of his maternal grandparents. To read about the genesis of this cemetery restoration, as well as the involvement of Dartmouth College students as well as local Jurbarkas residents in this project please visit Restoration of the Jewish Cemetery in Yurburg (Jurbarkas) at http://www.jewishgen.org/Litvak/HTML/OnlineJournals/Restoration.htmAnd to read the wealth of additional articles available to you via the LitvakSIG Online Journal, from the most recent articles such as "What's in a Name? The Problem of Name Changes in the Search for Family Roots," "The Life and Times of Ellen and Jacob Cohen: 1870-1950," "Memorials for Lithuanian Shtetls in Cholon, Israel," and "Another Surinamer Surfaces," to some of the earlier articles including "Box-Tax Paperwork Records," "The Zeimelis Jewish Cemetery," "Letters from Gelvan," "Never Judge an Archival Collection by Its Description," "The LitvakSIG Poetry Page" and more, please consult the Table of Contents at http://www.jewishgen.org/Litvak/HTML/OnlineJournals/Journal.htmHappy Purim!Shalom, Judi Langer-Surnamer CaplanEditor, LitvakSIG Online Journal