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European Day(s) of Jewish Culture 2023, focus on Memory — EU funding; new outreach; upcoming conference — and contest for this year’s poster

The annual European Day(s) of Jewish Culture will kick off on September 3 — and the overall theme this year is “Memory.” While the EDJC started off in 1999 as a one-day initiative, this year’s events under the EDJC umbrella … continue reading →

Poland: An artist who escaped to Poland from Ukraine created a spectacular mirror mandala mural on the wall of the Jewish cemetery in Kalisz

(JHE) — A Belarus-born artist who escaped to Poland from Ukraine has created a spectacular mural made from thousands of fragments of mirrors  that extends across the outside of the wall of the Jewish cemetery in Kalisz.  Titled “Source,” the … continue reading →

Ukraine: Exciting discoveries — including the Three Hares motif on gravestones — as high school students research the Jewish cemetery in Horodok

(JHE) — Some exciting discoveries have been made recently in Jewish cemeteries in western Ukraine — including by local high school students carrying out research in the Jewish cemetery in Horodok who revealed a matzevah bearing the rare “Three Hares” … continue reading →