(JHE) — The Vilnius Municipality has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Vilnius Jewish community and the Goodwill Foundation that will lead to development of the site of the city’s destroyed Great Synagogue as a space of commemoration, education, … continue reading →
Art historian and Jewish heritage researcher Dr. Eugeny Kotlyar, a professor at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, is one of the millions of Ukrainian refugees — forced to flee to Lviv from his home in Kharkiv after … continue reading →
Work on the new, EU-funded Orthodox Jewish Heritage Route in Eastern Hungary has been completed. Its new visitor centers and other new infrastructure are open, and there’s a multi-lingual web site in Hungarian and English (with Hebrew planned) to guide … continue reading →
The war launched by Russia in Ukraine a month ago has forced millions to flee from their homes and has seen towns and cities shelled and bombarded. Residential and commercial buildings as well as airports, industrial sites, and military installations … continue reading →
Work is under way to install a permanent exhibition on local Jewish history in the former synagogue in Senec, whose full-scale restoration has recently been completed. To be called “Jewish Heritage of the Bratislava Self-Governing Region,” the exhibition will … continue reading →
