The year 2022 marks the 10th anniversary of Jewish Heritage Europe. The theme of our birthday celebrations is the “Anniversary of Anniversaries” — that is, using JHE’s own anniversary to feature other significant or symbolic anniversaries. Here we highlight the 150th anniversary of … continue reading →
We’ve made it a JHE tradition. Tonight —the night of November 9-10 — marks the 84th anniversary of the so-called Kristallnacht pogrom — Reichspogromnacht — in 1938, when the Nazis launched coordinated violent attacks on Jews, Jewish property and Jewish … continue reading →
We are pleased to share this CfP for a conference that piques our interest. There should be scope for papers with a built heritage focus, as evidenced in the just concluding exhibit on the villas of Jews in the spa … continue reading →
A new museum on the history of Jews in and around Bayonne, in the Basque country of southwest France near the border with Spain, has opened in the complex of the city’s synagogue. Called the Suzanne and Marcel Suares Museum … continue reading →
We are pleased to share this Call for Papers for the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Society for Sephardic Studies, to be held in Izmir, Turkey, October 9-13, 2023. Focus of the conference is: Sephardic Jews, between Messianism and Modernity … continue reading →
