Jewish Heritage Europe

Poland Update: Orla Synagogue placed on 2025 list of Seven Most Endangered Monuments and Cultural Heritage Sites in Europe

Orla synagogue. Photo: FODZ

Europa Nostra and the European Investment Bank Institute have place the historic synagogue of Orla, in eastern Poland, on the 2025 List of the Seven Most Endangered Monuments and Cultural Heritage Sites in Europe. Launched in 2013, the 7 Most … continue reading →

UK: Longtime Jewish heritage activist Valerie Bello receives the Heritage Hero Lifetime Award from the UK’s Heritage Alliance

Valerie Bello receives the Heritage Heroes Award. Photo: B'nai B'rith UK

Mazel tov to longtime Jewish heritage activist Valerie Bello who has been awarded the ‘Heritage Hero Lifetime Award’ by the Heritage Alliance, a network of more that 200 independent heritage organisations in England, focused on volunteer activists and activities. Each … continue reading →

Italy: Rescued fragments of the portal of the magnificent destroyed Old Synagogue of Livorno are planned to be reassembled and erected outside the postwar New Synagogue

Salvaged fragments of the imposing marble portal from the destroyed Old Synagogue in Livorno are planned to be restored and reassembled in front of the city’s modern New Synagogue in a  project led by the Foundation for Jewish Cultural Heritage … continue reading →

Italy: Ancient Roman-era Mikveh discovered at Ostia Antica; believed to be the oldest discovered outside the middle east

The Ostia Antica mikveh, snowing chamber and basin. Photo: Ministry of Culture

Archaeologists have discovered what they say is an ancient Roman-era mikveh amid the sprawling ruins of the ancient port city of Ostia Antica outside Rome. It was described as the oldest mikveh as yet discovered outside the middle east. The … continue reading →