Jewish Heritage Europe

Cemetery restoration: report on hands-on experience and how-to (cross-post)

Jay Osborn, of the Rohatyn Jewish Heritage project and Gesher Galicia, recently volunteered as part of a cemetery marker restoration workshop in the south of Poland organized by Stowarzyszenie Magurycz (Magurycz Association).  “It would be a chance for us to … continue reading →

New, interactive e-book guide to Jewish Venice

  Venice this year is marking the 500th anniversary of the imposition of the Venice Ghetto — the first time ruling authorities in Europe officially confined Jews to a closed, segregated space. There’s a rich array of events to mark … continue reading →

Call for photos: contest for Galicia Jewish Museum exhibit

  The Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow has launched a competition asking people to send in photos on contemporary Jewish life in Poland, for inclusion in the museum’s exhibition “Traces of Memory,” which features photographs by the museum’s founder, the … continue reading →

Budapest: Restoration of Obuda synagogue completed

  Somehow we feel that this report, which celebrates life and survival, is a fitting post for Yom HaShoah, Holocaust remembrance day…. Restoration of the 200-year-old neoclassical synagogue in northern Budapest’s Obuda district has been completed, and the stately building … continue reading →

Job opportunity: Head of Chernivtsi Holocaust museum project

  The Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine (Vaad of Ukraine) and the Center for Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry of the National University of  the “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Jewish Studies Center) have issued a … continue reading →