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Call for Entries: Centropa/ESJF Jewish Cemeteries Youth Digital Storytelling Competition

Photographing in the Jewish cemetery, Biala, Poland

We are pleased to share this Call for Entries in the Youth Digital Storytelling Competition from the Centropa/ESJF project to incorporate Jewish cemeteries into education Deadline for submissions in March 25, 2021 Students from the Centropa/ESJF project countries — Lithuania, … continue reading →

Poland: Jan Jagielski (1937-2021) Farewell to a Jewish heritage pioneer, mentor — and mensch

(JHE) — With great sadness we mourn the death of the inimitable Jan Jagielski, a true pioneer in research on Jewish heritage in Poland, an inspiration and mentor to generations — and, perhaps above all, a consummate mensch. In failing … continue reading →

New books about Synagogues published in France, Italy, and Croatia

  New books about synagogues have recently been published in France, Italy, and Croatia. Each is quite different from the others, looking at synagogues, their history, and their architecture from very different perspectives — popular, scholarly, and artistic. Take a … continue reading →