Jewish Heritage Europe

Webinar of Note: Documenting and preserving Jewish heritage in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. July 29 on Zoom

We are pleased to share the announcement of the online seminar “Documenting and preserving Jewish heritage in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.”  It will be in English, and aimed at museum professionals and representatives of cultural heritage institutions in Latvia, Lithuania, … continue reading →

Belarus: About 250 matzevot removed from a Jewish cemetery in Minsk will be cleaned and documented, then returned to the cemetery to create a lapidarium

About 250 matzevot that have been removed from the Jewish cemetery on  Sukhaya Street in Minsk will be cleaned, documented, and returned to the cemetery, where a lapidary monument will be created with them. “The lapidarium will be a place … continue reading →

Webinar of note: Mapping the Archipelago of Lost Towns — Post-Holocaust Urban Lacunae in the Polish-Belarusian-Ukrainian Borderlands with Magdalena Waligórska, PhD

We are a bit last minute to post this, but if you can, do zoom in for this fascinating webinar tomorrow — Wednesday, June 10, at 3 AM Australian Eastern / 10 AM Pacific / 12 PM US Central / … continue reading →

Call for submissions: Conference The War That Never Ended: Jewish Experiences of World War I in Central and Eastern Europe, at the POLIN museum in Warsaw, November 23-25, 2026. Deadline for submission is June 22.

We are pleased to share this Call for Submissions for the conference The War That Never Ended: Jewish Experiences of World War I in Central and Eastern Europe, at the POLIN museum in Warsaw, November 23-25, 2026. Deadline for submission … continue reading →

Call for Applications: Hungarian national seminar on Jewish cemetery preservation, July 21-22. Deadline June 22.

We are pleased to share this call for applications for a Hungarian national seminar on Jewish cemetery preservation, organized by the ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative and taking place in Budapest July 21-22. Deadline for applications is June 22. Professionals … continue reading →