A roundtable meeting in L’viv of activists, Jewish representatives, NGOs, and local government officials appears to signal new cooperation and possible new, collaborative strategies on Jewish cultural heritage preservation and research in parts of western Ukraine. JHE friend Marla Raucher … continue reading →
A recent book, Berlin for Jews: a 21st Century Companion, combines heritage travel, tourism, history, and reflection in the German capital. The author is Princeton University Prof. Leonard Barkan, who has said in an interview: As for the experience … continue reading →
Sergey R. Kravtsov of the Center for Jewish Art at Hebrew University has uploaded to academia.edu several of his recent articles, papers, and lectures on Jewish heritage in Ukraine, Poland (and elsewhere), which can be downloaded from the site … continue reading →
The photographer and writer Jason Francisco, an American who spends periods of each year in Poland and/or western Ukraine, has written a provocative (and evocative) text-and-photo essay about visiting Krakow’s old Jewish quarter, Kazimierz, in the winter and marking … continue reading →
Over the past year, we have posted more than 200 news items in our Jewish Heritage Europe News Feed. As 2016 comes to an end, we thought we would draw attention to the 50 (or so) posts that were … continue reading →
