Our January JHE Newsletter is out: news, views, and insights from the past month — from Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Romania, and elsewhere….plus two photo essays, a special personal essay by National Jewish Book Award-winner Marcin Wodziński … continue reading →
January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945, is marked in many countries as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is an occasion for commemorative ceremonies, educational programs, and other initiatives. Monuments and memorials are also dedicated or … continue reading →
Mazel tov to Monika Krawczyk, the longtime CEO of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland (FODZ), who was elected this week as leader of Poland’s main Jewish umbrella organization, the Union of Jewish Religious Communities … continue reading →
We are pleased to share this call for papers for the conference “Art and the Holocaust: Reflections for the Common Future,” which will take place in Riga, Latvia on July 2-3, 2019 The conference is organized by the Riga Jewish … continue reading →
A stairway to a church in Vilnius made of Jewish gravestones has been dismantled and the matzevot returned to the city’s vast Užupis Jewish cemetery where they may have once stood. The web site of the Lithuanian Jewish Community reports … continue reading →
