Cemeteries

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.

CORONAVIRUS - COVID-19 EMERGENCY -- CAUTIOUS REOPENING...

With the cautious easing of COVID-19 restrictions in some countries, Jewish museums and other Jewish heritage sites are also beginning — cautiously — to reopen, with social distancing and other hygienic measures in place.

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In addition to our frequently updated News Feed, JHE publishes longer articles -- including our regular series of "Have Your Say" personal essays and op-eds.

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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Germany: Dozens of gravestones in the medieval Jewish cemetery in Worms — Europe’s oldest in situ — vandalized with paint. Woman detained

At least 50 gravestones in the medieval Jewish cemetery in Worms, Germany were smeared with paint in a vandal attack. A person the local media said appeared “confused” was detained.

jhe July 10, 2020

Germany: Dr. Kathrin Pieren is the New Director of the Westphalia Jewish Museum in Dorsten, Germany

Mazel tov to Dr. Kathrin Pieren, who has taken up the post of the first full-time director of the Westphalia Jewish Museum in Dorsten, Germany since the museum opened in

jhe July 10, 2020

Ukraine: Major new resource for Jewish cemetery preservation in western Ukraine (with lots of material applicable to projects elsewhere, too)

We are pleased to introduce our readers to a major new (and comprehensive) web resource for Jewish cemetery restoration and commemoration. Called A Guide to Jewish Cemetery Preservation in Western

jhe July 10, 2020

With COVID restrictions easing, Jewish heritage sites are offering guided tours — with limits

With the easing of the Covid-19 restrictions, summer tourism is beginning – even if in a limited way – and in-person guided tours to Jewish heritage sites, such as synagogues,

jhe July 9, 2020

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(House of) Life in the Time of Pandemic: Documenting a Jewish Cemetery, in Isolation, with Dad

COVID-19 quarantine measures closed Jewish heritage sites and led to the cancellation or postponement of many cemetery clean-up actions by volunteer groups. Monika Tarajko, of the Grodzka Gate NN Theatre in Lublin, Poland, often volunteers with such groups. But this year she used the pandemic time to work in isolation – accompanied by her father – to clear and document just one Jewish cemetery, that in Józefów Biłgorajski. To date, she writes, she and her dad have cleaned and/or documented more than 450 matzevot. In this personal essay she recounts the experience.

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