By now it’s a JHE tradition. The night of November 9-10 marks the 80th anniversary of the so-called Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938, when the Nazis launched coordinated violent attacks on Jews, Jewish property and Jewish places of worship all … continue reading →
The Warsaw-based Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland (FODŻ) is seeking a new Director General to lead the organization, support its mission to protect and commemorate the surviving sites and monuments of Jewish cultural heritage in Poland, … continue reading →
The scholars Ruth Mandel and Rachel Lehr are carrying out ethnographic research about site-specific artists’ responses to the Holocaust. In our new Have Your Say personal essay — Kaddish in Norway: On the trail of Stolpersteine/snublestein/stumbling blocks — they … continue reading →
The Slovak Jewish community has honored activists for the preservation and promotion of Jewish heritage in Slovakia. This year’s Eugene Bárkány Prize and three Eugen Bárkány Plaques were awarded at the fourth annual Jewish Heritage in Slovakia conference, held November … continue reading →
In what was truly a Shehecheyanu moment, a Mezuzah was affixed to the entrance of the partially restored Great Maharsha Synagogue in Ostroh (Ostrog), Ukraine, built in the early 17th century. Visiting rabbis and pilgrims from the USA, Israel, … continue reading →
