Jewish Heritage Europe

Call for Tender submission: Writing historical overviews of around 1,700 Jewish cemeteries being surveyed by the ESJF

We are happy to share an invitation to submit a tender for part of a Jewish cemetery project led by the European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative (ESJF), working together as a consortium with the Foundation for Jewish Heritage (FJH) and Centropa. … continue reading →

Tourism: A round-up of some of the local Jewish heritage tours and events this coming week in several countries

  While the pandemic has curtailed much tourism there’s a lot going on on the local level in the coming week. Here are some of the organized Jewish heritage tourism events scheduled in the coming week. If you find yourself … continue reading →

Poland: More than 150 matzevot & fragments uncovered under Lezajsk market square; dozens more uncovered in a former prison courtyard in Lviv

More than 150 Jewish headstones and fragments have been unearthed over the course of the summer during construction on the main market square in Lezajsk, Poland — a town noted as the center of pilgrimage by thousands of Hasids each … continue reading →