Six synagogues are on Historic England’s current register of “Heritage at Risk (HAR),” released in late 2021. Covering various categories of buildings and other places that are listed as Grades I and II heritage sites, the Heritage Risk Program “identifies … continue reading →
Few — if any — institutions or organizations carry out as much research, publication, and other activities related to the documentation and analysis of Jewish heritage as the Center for Jewish Art at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. We have highlighted … continue reading →
Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici in Europa — Buona lettura! Pulizia dei cimiteri ebraici: edizione speciale del sommario delle iniziative invernali 6 gennaio 2022 Tra maggio e ottobre 2021, … continue reading →
Between May and October 2021, we published four Jewish cemetery clean-up round-ups, in which we listed around 270 initiatives in 18 countries and more than 150 towns, cities, and villages. In these round-ups, we showed how hundreds of volunteers and others … continue reading →
(JHE) — Maceva, the Litvak Cemetery Catalogue, has made available photos and translations of gravestones from more than half of Lithuania’s largest surviving Jewish cemetery, the Žaliakalnis Jewish cemetery in Kaunas. The documentation of seven out of of the 12 … continue reading →
