Jewish Heritage Europe

Call for Applications: Dubnow Institute Visiting Research Fellowship Program (2026/27)

Scales of Justice on a gravestone in the Ashkenazi section of the Jewish cemetery in Hamburg Altona, Germany

We are pleased to share the Call for Applications for the Dubnow Institute Visiting Research Fellowship Program (2026/27). Application deadline: December 16, 2025 The Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow (DI) offers fellowships to external researchers … continue reading →

Call for Applications: The Heritage Laboratory in Belchite, Spain –Fieldwork training program, Summer 2026

We are pleased to share this Call for Applications for The Heritage Laboratory – Belchite, Spain –Fieldwork training program, Summer 2026, announced by The Institute for Jewish Studies Barcelona (EJB) the Matanel Sefarad Seminar, and The Spanish Association of Military … continue reading →

Call for Applications: Fellowships at the Center for Jewish History, New York. Application deadline is December 29

We are pleased to share this Call for Applications for Fellowship Programs at the Center for Jewish History in New York. Seven fellowships are available, starting in September 2026. Click the links to find descriptions and application guidelines for each. … continue reading →

Jewish cemeteries: The ESJF publishes as online books its surveys of Jewish cemeteries in Poland and Slovakia.

The European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative (ESJF) has published as online books its surveys of Jewish cemeteries in Poland and Slovakia. The books are published in the ISSUU format and are searchable and sharable. Both cover extant cemeteries and destroyed cemetery … continue reading →

Poland: Sukkoth 2025 — Sukkahs and symbolism; with news of the Sukkah Project, conserving a historic sukkah from the town of Izbica

The Jewish holiday of Sukkoth, the “festival of booths,” starts tonight and lasts a week. It is both a harvest festival and a commemoration of the years Jews spent wandering in the desert in Biblical times. Jews traditionally build temporary … continue reading →