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Senior Job Opportunity: Director of MEIS Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah
The National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS) has opened a call for applications for a director, to fulfill a four- year term in the post. The four-year
Poland: Synagogue in Krynki to be renovated
The so-called “Kaukaski” synagogue in the eastern Polish town of Krynki, long used as a cinema and more recently as a sports and culture center, is to undergo renovation. According
JHE in italiano – Sommario 9-13 febbraio
Ecco il sommario settimanale in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici in Europa. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett premiata con il premio Dan David 2020 13 febbraio
2020 Dan David Prize to Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Mazel tov to Jewish cultural studies luminary Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, who has been awarded a Dan David Prize for 2020! She receives the prize for “making an ongoing, groundbreaking contribution to
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Exploring Jewish Nice and Its Many Layers of History
While working in the archives of the Alpes-Maritimes in Nice, France, sorting Holocaust-era documents related to a 20th century politician in Vichy France, American historian Robert Levitt ran across a letter that gripped his attention like no other. It was a letter from a man about to be deported by the Gestapo because they were convinced he was Jewish, when in actuality he was not. In this personal essay Levitt writes how this letter changed the way he thought about Nice and led to his continuing study of the long and tumultuous history of Jews in the city, from medieval times to the present.
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