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Senior Job Opportunity: New Director, Prague Jewish Museum

The Prague Jewish Museum is seeking candidates for a new Director, to replace long-time Director Leo Pavlat, who is stepping down in October. Pavlat, 71, has led the museum since it returned to Jewish ...

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Click on a country to take you to that country's home page, where you will find bibliographies, Jewish communal contacts, and links to Jewish museums, cultural and research institutions with Jewish holdings or focus, Jewish heritage and heritage sites, news items — and much more. (Rather than provide extensive information for most heritage sites, we have aggregated links and link to local web sites and data bases where you can find details.)

Some of the country pages have less content than others… Jewish Heritage Europe is a developing resource and we are adding more and more content on a daily basis — so please come back!

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Visit the JHE Jewish Cemeteries Portal, where we draw together news, information and resources about Jewish cemeteries and gravestones, as well as information on best-practices and on preservation and documentation. If you have a question you can ask for advice on projects — through the new EJCAN European Jewish Cemetery Advisory Network.

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Each of these essays reflects personal involvement or analysis by scholars, experts, and hands-on Jewish heritage stakeholders.

We keep them in an archive -- where you can read them for more in-depth insight and first-hand stories.

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Senior Job Opportunity: New Director, Prague Jewish Museum

The Prague Jewish Museum is seeking candidates for a new Director, to replace long-time Director Leo Pavlat, who is stepping down in October. Pavlat, 71, has led the museum since

jhe July 6, 2022

Free online (hybrid) event July 12: Round-table on Jewish heritage in Ukraine

With concerns still high as the war in Ukraine continues to rage, we want to point out a hybrid online (and in person) event on Jewish heritage in Ukraine that

jhe July 6, 2022

France Update: Historic Carpentras synagogue is in the finals for a “France’s Favourite Monument” competition, sponsored by French TV

(JHE) — The historic synagogue in Carpentras, the oldest active synagogue in France, will represent the southern Provence-Alpes-Côté d’Azur region in a French TV-sponsored competition for “France’s Favorite Monument.” Thanks

jhe July 5, 2022

UK: Welsh Jewish Heritage Centre project at Merthyr Tydfil synagogue receives major National Lottery Heritage Fund grant & other significant funding

Mazel tov! The National Lottery Heritage Fund (NHLF) and Welsh Government’s Transforming Towns programme have awarded significant funding to the Foundation for Jewish Heritage for its plans to develop a Welsh Jewish

jhe July 4, 2022

Have your say

Safe in Jewish Places: The Journey of a Jewish Researcher, Now a Refugee in War-Wracked Ukraine

Art historian and Jewish heritage researcher Dr. Eugeny Kotlyar, a professor at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, was forced to flee from Kharkiv to Lviv after Russian forces bombarded the city.

In this powerful personal essay he describes his journey through Ukraine, which took him and his family through favorite Jewish places he had researched and written about for years — former shtetls which had been home to historic Tzaddikim.

He reflects on how he somehow felt safe in these places, redolent of Jewish history and heritage, and the prevailing power of the sages.

Click to read Dr. Kotlyar’s essay »