With the cooler weather, the academic year beginning, and the High Holidays coming up, there is a lot going on in the Jewish heritage world.
Here below is a sample of some upcoming events, as posted on our Calendar. (We have posted links to various other events on our Facebook page.)
This year’s European Days of Jewish Culture kicked off September 1, but there are events in many countries all the way into November. The pan-European festival of tourism and education centered on Jewish built heritage has become Europe’s most successful cross-border Jewish cultural initiative. This year’s theme is “Family.”
A gala civic event with a concert and speakers including the Liverpool mayor and the UK Chief Rabbi.
September 8-10, Warsaw — From Shtetl to Post-Jewish Town.
Conference organized as part of the events accompanying the temporary exhibition of the POLIN Museum “(post)JEWISH… Shtetl Opatów Through the Eyes of Mayer Kirshenblatt” . The program includes a conversation with JHE’s Ruth Ellen Gruber. Click HERE to see the program.
This international conference officially kicks off the project “Digital Stone Witnesses. German-Jewish Sepulchral Culture between the Middle Ages and Modernity – Space, Form, Inscription,” a major project aimed at documenting the inscription on gravestones in Jewish cemeteries in Germany.
September 8-18 — The Budapest Jewish Culture Festival.
The 26th annual edition of the festival. Main venues are the synagogues on Dohány Street, Hegedűs Gyula Street, Frankel Leó Street, and Rumbach Street, the Golem theatre, and the Balint Haz JCC
September 11, Bacau, Romania — Romanian Heritage; A Journey in Time
Opening of the exhibition of art work by the British artist Beverley Jane Stewart, which runs for a month. The exhibition includes works of painting, engraving and collage, the result of three years of traveling around Romania, following her Romanian roots.
September 12-22, Berlin — Jewish Culture Days Berlin
The 37th edition of the Jewish Culture Days festival in Berlin, organized by the Berlin Jewish community with a wide variety of partners. The theme this year is Light. Concerts, workshops, films, guided tours, literary events, and more.
September 17-18, Prague — Preserving Memory: Holocaust Monuments and Monuments in Central Europe
International conference.
September 22-24, Krakow — Future for Religious Heritage Conference
The theme of the conference is religious heritage in transition. JHE is represented in the poster session.
September 23-24, Ivano-Frankivsk — Jewish Cemetery Preservation Workshop
The ESJF organizes a seminar designed for historians, local activists, school teachers, employees of non-governmental organizations, volunteers and other interested persons who care about the problem of preservation of historical heritage, in particular, Jewish cemeteries.
Together with stone preservation expert Dr. Sidonia Olea volunteers will work on stone conservation and restoration at the Jewish Cemetery in Făgăraș and in several Christian Orthodox cemeteries in the region. The aim of the Stone Restoration Camp is to form a team dedicated to intervention, rescue, and maintenance of stone monuments and heritage in Tara Fagarasului.
September 27-30, Warsaw — Celebrations marking the 10th Anniversary of the POLIN Museum
Free admission and a wide range of activities.
September 29, Online — Hidden Splendors: The Stunning Baroque Synagogues of Piedmont, Italy
An online Zoom lecture in the Community Scholar Program, by architecture historian Dr. Samuel Gruber, an expert on synagogue architecture worldwide and president of the International Survey of Jewish Monuments.
September 30, Prague — Czech Jewish Cemeteries conference
The colloquium sponsored by the ESJF on Jewish cemeteries in the Czech Republic, and their protection, restoration, care, documentation and research methodology.