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London’s historic Bevis Marks synagogue, the oldest in the UK, has received £497,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to carry out renovation and other work hampered over the past year by the COVID 19 pandemic. In an announcement Friday, the … continue reading →
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 →
(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 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 →
The JHE monthly Newsletter for February is out. Even in the heart of winter — and the continuing pandemic — Jewish heritage work doesn’t stop. Lots of news this month, in fact — from Poland, France, Hungary, Ukraine, the UK, … continue reading →
