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JHE January Newsletter is out
The January JHE Newsletter is out. This month news, views, and insights from France, the UK, Hungary, Poland, Ireland, The Netherlands — as well as new publications and
UK: Historic England publishes Report on Anglo-Jewish cemeteries; follows on after earlier Report published in 2016 (Both are available online.)
Britain’s Historic England has published a major report on Jewish cemeteries in England, available online in PDF form — Historic England 2019 Anglo-Jewish Burial Grounds: The Post Resettlement Period. The
Announcing a new social media resource – the JHE Facebook group
We’ve launched a new social media branch of JHE — a Jewish Heritage Europe Facebook group. The group complements our JHE Facebook page (which has more than 8,700 followers) and
JHE in italiano – Sommario 12-17 gennaio 2020
Ecco il sommario settimanale in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici in Europa. Novità provenienti da Polonia, Francia, UK, Russia, Europa… SOMMARIO 12-17 GENNAIO 2020
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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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