Every half hour there will be a guided walking tour of the former Jewish ghetto in Finale Emilia.
Participants must wear masks and follow other COVID-19 health measures.
The tours are presented as part of the Italian Environment Fund’s Springtime Open Days events around the country.
Click here to learn more and register — reservations are necessary
There will be a guided walking tour every half hour of the Jewish cemetery, founded in the 17th century. The cemetery had been abandoned for decades until a major restoration and clean-up in 1987 and a further restoration in 2015.
Participants must wear masks and follow other COVID-19 health measures.
The tours are presented as part of the Italian Environment Fund’s Springtime Open Days events around the country.
Click here to register — reservations are required
Take a a virtual tour of Bialystok with Tomasz Wisniewski, an expert in Jewish history of Podlasie region, who will guide viewers through the city space and history of Bialystok, a home to Jewish community from the mid-17th century. Join in to listen to the history of Jewish community of Bialystok: its role in the rapid development of the town in the 19th century, social and cultural life in early 20th century, and the fate of Jews during Soviet and Nazi occupation.
The tour is part of the regular “Zoom in” program of the Forum for Dialogue NGO.
Wisniewski has been working for more than 30 years to preserve the memory of the Jewish communities of Poland’s eastern borderland. He created the web site jewishbialystok.pl as an online museum of Jewish history in the region and he received the POLIN museum award in 2018.
He has written several books, including a guidebook to Jewish Bialystok and surroundings, and on his YouTube channel you can find more than 2,000 films presenting Jewish history of the region. He has documented Jewish cemeteries and runs the site bagnowka.pl, which collects data on almost 40,000 tombstones, mainly Jewish ones, and also presents other heritage information.
A gathering of Lithuanian Jews and descendants, which includes an academic conference, a cultural fest, guided tours to Jewish heritage in several towns and cities around the country — Vilnius, Kaunas, Panevėžys, Šeduva, Pakruojis — and more.
Click here to see the full program
Pre-registration is required by filling out the following form:
Reception and curators’ tour at the newly opening Jewish Museum in the Kaliningrad Synagogue.
The exhibition “Through Koenigsberg with Jewish Eyes” will be presented to the public. The members of the Jewish Congregation have been able to visit the new museum since mid-September.
Willesden Jewish Cemetery: 150 years of Heritage 1873 – 2023 Guided Walk
As part of the year long celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Willesden Jewish Cemetery, this guided walk will tell the story of the establishment of the cemetery, highlighting the early years of the United Synagogue, the people who made it happen and their role in the community.
Guided tour of the Jewish Museum Lecce and the ancient Jewish district, with Fabrizio Ghio (architect and archaeologist, member of the Scientific Committee of the Jewish Museum Lecce), Fabrizio Lelli, director of the Jewish Museum Lecce and professor of Hebrew language and literature at the Sapienza University (Rome), and Claudio Fano, direct witness of the racial laws and the Jews deportation from the Ghetto of Rome on October 16th 1943.
Free admission, reservation required.
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The Jewish Community of Trieste is hosting two guided tours of the Jewish Cemetery. They’ll be on Thursday, May 2nd, and Thursday, May 9th, both at 10:00 a.m. Space is limited, so booking is required. For details and reservations, visit@triestebraica.it.
The Jewish Community of Trieste is hosting two guided tours of the Jewish Cemetery. They’ll be on Thursday, May 2nd, and Thursday, May 9th, both at 10:00 a.m. Space is limited, so booking is required. For details and reservations, visit@triestebraica.it.
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