This month marks five years since JHE went live online. In a lengthy interview with Liam Hoare on the website eJewishPhilanthropy, JHE Coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber reflects on developments in Jewish heritage work — looking back and looking forward.
JHE builds on and expands a previous version of the site that was launched after a major conference on the Future of Jewish Heritage, held in Prague in 2004. The decision by the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe to relaunch and expand came as a follow-up to a conference held in Bratislava, Slovakia in March 2009 that discussed the state of Jewish heritage sites in Europe as well as strategies for their restoration, use, and upkeep. […]
JHE’s aim is to facilitate communication and information exchange regarding projects, initiatives, and other developments such as restoration, ongoing projects, best practices, advisory services and more. Its primary focus is Jewish built heritage: synagogues, cemeteries, mikvaot, Jewish quarters and other physical traces that attest to a Jewish presence on the continent stretching back to Antiquity, but it also includes material on Jewish museums and other cultural institutions.
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1 comment on “JHE’s Coordinator reflects on five years online: looking back, looking forward”
Since knowing the JHE site,not only myself highly regarding Mrs.Ruth Grubers’ work,also my
acquaintances I forwarded the information.
By now I’m more than ever aware this site broadened my historical perspective ,let me say my
Jewish perspective .
Thanks and I am really very grateful a source like this is available!