Little Jerusalem reconnects Jewish monuments separated by border

Little Jerusalem reconnects Jewish monuments separated by border

The Italian city of Gorizia used to have a thriving Jewish community. During the Second World War most of its members perished or fled, and when the war ended the synagogue and the cemetery were on different sides of the Iron Curtain. They are now being reconnected at a symbolic level. A cross-border walk down the memory lane from the synagogue in Gorizia to the Jewish cemetery on the Slovenian side of the border now connects the two main monume…