MACEVA, the Lithuanian Jewish cemetery catalogue, has published a report providing an overview of its activities in 2015 — including documentation of cemeteries, digitization of photographs of headstones, cemetery clean-up workshops and other activities. Highlights include: — an international two-week … continue reading →
We share here a Call for Papers for an interesting-looking conference coming up in May in Poland: Representing Jewish History in European and American Popular Culture, Museums and Public Spaces Warsaw, May 16-18, 2016 The framework of the conference is the … continue reading →
Organizers have issued an Open Call for participants in Jewish Cultural Heritage: Projects, Methods, Inspirations — a major conference to be held at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, June 8-10, 2016. One may: submit … continue reading →
The recently published new volume of East European Jewish Affairs — Volume 45 Numbers 2–3 August–December 2015 — is devoted to new Jewish museums in post-communist Europe and has many articles that will be of interest to JHE readers. (JHE Coordinator … continue reading →
We are pleased to forward this call for papers for the annual conference of the Association for Gravestone Studies, which will be held June 21-26, 2016 at Xavier College, Cincinnati, Ohio. The AGS is a U.S.-based international organization with … continue reading →
