Jewish Heritage Europe

Jewish Cemetery Clean-ups: Special Winter Round-up edition

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 →

Lithuania: In 2019-2021 Maceva Litvak Cemetery catalog translated 3,125 epitaphs in several Jewish cemeteries, including Lithuania’s largest surviving Jewish cemetery, in Kaunas (where a matzevah-carver left his phone number…)

(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 →

Turkey: Tablet Magazine publishes a profile of Nesim Bencoya, who spearheads the Jewish Heritage Project in Izmir

We’ve posted a lot about the Izmir Jewish Heritage Project and the efforts to restore the complex of historic synagogues in the city to form a space of public heritage and culture. So we’re delighted to see a profile of … continue reading →