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May
17
Fri
(post)JEWISH… Shtetl Opatów Through the Eyes of Mayer Kirshenblatt @ POLIN Museum, Warsaw
May 17 – Dec 16 all-day
(post)JEWISH… Shtetl Opatów Through the Eyes of Mayer Kirshenblatt @ POLIN Museum, Warsaw | Warszawa | Województwo mazowieckie | Poland

There were more than a thousand shtetls in today’s territories of Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus.  The Second World War and the Holocaust obliterated the world of shtetls completely. Today, in Opatów—as well as in tens of other Polish towns—there are no more Jews left.

The OPOLIN Museum’s  new temporary exhibition titled (post) JEWISH… demonstrates that Polish towns hide two parallel histories. The history of their Polish inhabitants is well known and remembered. The one of their Jewish neighbours who are no more is forgotten or left unsaid. 

Guide in the exhibition will be the late Mayer Kirshenblatt, a painter who emigrated to Canada with his mother and brothers as a teenager, in 1934. Mayer recalls the shtetl of his youth, restoring vivid memories of the people, events, daily life and customs. His paintings—full of color, imagination and humor—show us a world that is no more. Looking at them, we learn about our shared Polish-Jewish history.

The exhibition also features a documentation of artistic interventions carried out in today’s Opatów, aimed at discovering and restoring the vestiges of the pre-war Jewish life.

Click here to buy tickets

 

Sep
8
Sun
Six-month “Heritage Season” for 150th anniversary of the Princes Road Synagogue, Liverpool @ Various venues in Liverpool
Sep 8 2024 – Feb 24 2025 all-day
Six-month "Heritage Season" for 150th anniversary of the Princes Road Synagogue, Liverpool @ Various venues in Liverpool | England | United Kingdom

Six month “Heritage Season” of Events (Ceremonial, Concerts, Lectures, Meal, Performances, Talks, Tours, and Walks) to mark the 150th Anniversary of Princes Road Synagogue.​ 

Themes: 

September 2024 – People & Place; 

October 2024 – Charity & Philanthropy and Rituals;

November 2024 – Civil life; December 2024 – Education & Learning; 

January 2025 – Trade & Occupations; February 2025 – Art & Culture

The program is evolving.

Click here to see the program as events are confirmed.

 

NOTE: Tickets for all events must be reserved in advance.

To apply for tickets, please complete the application for tickets form here.

 

 

Sep
17
Tue
Preserving Memory: Holocaust Monuments and Monuments in Central Europe @ Academic Conference Center, Prague
Sep 17 – Sep 18 all-day
Sep
22
Sun
Future for Religious Heritage Conference 2024
Sep 22 – Sep 24 all-day
Future for Religious Heritage  Conference 2024 @ Kraków | Lesser Poland Voivodeship | Poland

FRH Conference 2024 – Religious Heritage in Transition: Challenges and Solutions

Religious heritage must respond to the changes brought about by the emergence of new digital technologies, the effects of climate change and the way we understand, relate to and value our historic buildings and intangible heritage in 21st-century Europe. Our conference will explore existing initiatives and possible future solutions so that the various actors involved in religious heritage, including heritage professionals, academics, policy makers at all levels, religious bodies and European citizens, do not fall behind in this triple transition (green, digital and social).

The conference will address this overarching topic through four thematic sessions:
-Resilient Heritage
-Sustainable Solutions
-Digital Futures
-Quality of Life

 

Sep
23
Mon
Jewish Cemetery Preservation Workshop Ukraine @ Ivano Frankivsk
Sep 23 – Sep 24 all-day
Jewish Cemetery Preservation Workshop Ukraine @ Ivano Frankivsk | Ivano-Frankivsk | Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast | Ukraine

With the financial support of the German Foreign Ministry and in cooperation with the International Interdisciplinary Certificate Program in Judaica and the Jewish community of Ivano-Frankivsk, 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.

Participation in the seminar is free.

Participants from outside Ivano-Frankivsk will be compensated for transportation costs and booked one night of hotel accommodation.

Click here for the registration form.

\The number of participants is limited.

 

Sep
30
Mon
Czech Jewish cemeteries conference @ Academic Conference Center
Sep 30 – Oct 1 all-day

An expert colloquium RESTORATION, CARE AND DOCUMENTATION: Jewish cemeteries in the Czech Republic, held with the support of ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative.

The colloquium will focus on Jewish cemeteries in the Czech Republic, and their protection, restoration, care, documentation and research methodology.

The program will include be excursions to Prague Jewish cemeteries.
 
Interested participants are requested to confirm participation by Monday the September 9,  2024.  
 
Please confirm to p.vladarova@matana.cz
 
Program:

 

Oct
13
Sun
Urban Jewish Cemeteries in Central-Eastern Europe @ Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia, Romania
Oct 13 – Oct 15 all-day
Urban Jewish Cemeteries in Central-Eastern Europe @ Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia, Romania | Alba Iulia | Județul Alba | Romania

The conference aims “to foster debate on the strategies applied by the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the field of Jewish cemetery preservation, as well as the research methods used by specialists and examples of the preservation of Jewish cemeteries from the perspective of their signification as cultural heritage of living communities.”

The conference is supported by the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania, the Alba Iulia Jewish Community, Bar Ilan University, and Alba County Council, among others.

It is seen as a follow up to several other conferences, including European Jewish Cemeteries: An Interdisciplinary Conference, co-organized by JHE in Vilnius, 2015 and Urban Jewish Heritage: Presence and Absence, Kraków, 2018; as well as published research such as Rudolf Klein’s Metropolitan Jewish Cemeteries of the 19th and 20th Centuries in Central and Eastern Europe: A Comparative Study, 2018; and projects devoted such as those by the European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, initiated in 2015.

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