Jewish Heritage Europe

New HAVE YOUR SAY: Exploring the hidden Jewish heritage on the Romanian shore of the Danube — The REDISCOVER project in Galați, and its pandemic-era online Jewish culture festival

Our new HAVE YOUR SAY essay is up, about Jewish history and heritage in Galați, a port city on the Danube in northern Romania’s Moldavia region. Over the past three years, REDISCOVER, a project financed by the EU’s Danube Transnational … continue reading →

New Have Your Say: Photographer Jono David on his Never-ending Jewish Photo Tour — From the Trans-Siberian Railway to a Trans-African Trek

Since the late 1990s, the British-born photographer Jono David has traveled the globe to amass what is perhaps the most extensive archive of contemporary images of Jewish heritage and heritage sites in the world – a growing compendium of more … continue reading →

Our first Have Your Say of 2021 — Emil Majuk describes how past, present, and future converge in the new exhibit he curated in the former synagogue in Wojsławice, Poland

In our first “Have Your Say” personal essay of 2021, cultural activist Emil Majuk describes the new permanent exhibit he curated in the former synagogue of the small town of Wojsławice in southeastern Poland and how past, present, and future … continue reading →

Have Your Say: Cleaning up a Jewish Cemetery — Performing a Mitzvah but Questioning the Process

JHE contributor Michele Migliori recently took part in the clean up of a neglected Jewish cemetery in Tállya, a wine-making village in a remote part of Hungary. In his Have Your Say personal essay, “Cleaning up a Jewish Cemetery: Performing … continue reading →

New Have Your Say essay: Tomasz Cebulski on Tourism in the Age of Coronavirus, or the Seven Stages of Grief

Our new Have Your Say personal essay is called Tourism in the age of Coronavirus, or the Seven Stages of Grief by Dr. Tomasz Cebulski, a Jewish heritage tour guide and genealogist in Poland — and a scholar whose PhD … continue reading →