A small, half-timbered building in Telgte, a town in western Germany near Munster, that once housed a synagogue will undergo renovation work thanks to a €50,000 grant from the private, non-profit German Foundation for Monuments Protection. The grant was announced … continue reading →
We are pleased to share the 2020 Annual Review of the London-based Foundation for Jewish Heritage. The Review summarizes the Foundation’s activities in 2020 and also looks back at its accomplishments since its establishment five years ago. We have written … continue reading →
The ESJF has published a handbook on Jewish cemeteries and sustainable tourism, co-authored by JHE’s Ruth Ellen Gruber. Ruth’s report “Jewish Cemeteries and Sustainable Heritage Tourism,” starting at pg. 64-65, forms Part 2 of the book, after an introductory … continue reading →
London’s historic Bevis Marks synagogue, the oldest in the UK, has received £497,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to carry out renovation and other work hampered over the past year by the COVID 19 pandemic. In an announcement Friday, the … continue reading →
We are pleased to share this Call for Entries in the Youth Digital Storytelling Competition from the Centropa/ESJF project to incorporate Jewish cemeteries into education Deadline for submissions in March 25, 2021 Students from the Centropa/ESJF project countries — Lithuania, … continue reading →
