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Call for Proposals: Research seminar at Yad Vashem, January 2024, on Early postwar efforts to identify, locate, document and memorialize former sites of Jewish life and death (1944-1955)

We are pleased to share this Call for Proposals for a Research Seminar at Yad Vashem to be held in January 2024; application deadline is June 1.  – – – – Memory Maps: Early postwar efforts to identify, locate, document and memorialize … continue reading →

Germany: Watch the film of “Ritual Echoes,” a sound installation performance piece by Avery Gosfield centered on the monumental medieval mikvah in Speyer

As we noted at the time, the Italy-based American musician Avery Gosfield, a specialist in early music, was awarded one of the three first-time artist-in-residence fellowships presented by the ShUM cities project.  Her work, titled “Ritual Echoes,” entailed creation of a sound … continue reading →

January 27, 2023: International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Shoah memorials that name names, and personalize those who were murdered

(JHE) — January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945, is marked in many countries as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is an occasion for commemorative ceremonies, educational programs, and other initiatives. Monuments and memorials are also … continue reading →

European Day(s) of Jewish Culture 2023, focus on Memory — EU funding; new outreach; upcoming conference — and contest for this year’s poster

The annual European Day(s) of Jewish Culture will kick off on September 3 — and the overall theme this year is “Memory.” While the EDJC started off in 1999 as a one-day initiative, this year’s events under the EDJC umbrella … continue reading →

Poland: An artist who escaped to Poland from Ukraine created a spectacular mirror mandala mural on the wall of the Jewish cemetery in Kalisz

(JHE) — A Belarus-born artist who escaped to Poland from Ukraine has created a spectacular mural made from thousands of fragments of mirrors  that extends across the outside of the wall of the Jewish cemetery in Kalisz.  Titled “Source,” the … continue reading →