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New Have Your Say personal essay – Artist Beverley-Jane Stewart writes about her relationship with Jewish Romania, past and present, and discusses some of her individual works of art

Echoes of the Baal Shem Tov (in Piatra Neamt). Beverley-Jane Stewart

After a hiatus, we have a new Have Your Say personal essay on the web site. This one is by the British artist Beverley-Jane Stewart, who draws inspiration from the Jewish heritage of Romania, where she traces her roots. A … continue reading →

New “Have Your Say” personal essay: Researching the History of Swedish Synagogues — in Italy. By Swedish scholar Daniel Leviathan

After a long hiatus, we have posted a new Have Your Say personal essay, Researching the History of Swedish Synagogues — in Italy, by the Swedish scholar Daniel Leviathan. Leviathan, an archaeologist, studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, specializing … continue reading →

New Have Your Say: Michele Migliori on Synagogues in Rural Argentina – A meld of European origins and local sensibilities

In September 2022, JHE Contributor Michele Migliori began field work in Argentina to document synagogues and other Jewish heritage sites for his PhD research at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University. His focus is on how synagogues in the Argentine countryside resemble European … continue reading →

New Have Your Say by Piotr Puchta — On the permanent preservation of synagogues in Poland: the need for synergies and strategic thinking.

Synagogue in Łęczna, Poland, August 2018

After a lengthy hiatus, we have a new Have Your Say personal essay — this one from Piotr Puchta the CEO of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland (FODZ). It’s titled On the permanent preservation of synagogues … continue reading →

New Have Your Say: In Minsk Hillel’s MEGA project, young volunteers bring lost Jewish cemeteries back to light

  We have a new Have Your Say personal essay up — this one by Alena Kuliounich, director of the Hillel Jewish Students Cultural Center in Minsk in Minsk, Belarus.   For the past seven years, Minsk Hillel has carried … continue reading →