Jewish Heritage Europe

Lithuania: The writer and longtime Jewish heritage activist Sergey Kanovich has been chosen to become director of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum

Mazel tov to the writer and longtime Jewish heritage activist Sergey Kanovich, who has been chosen to become the new director of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum in Vilnius. Kanovich won a competition for the post, which has a … continue reading →

Call for Applications: Seminar in Amsterdam August 23-28 for early-career professionals in Jewish heritage and graduate students contemplating a career in the field. Deadline for applications April 21`

Music -- lecha dodi -- In the Jewish university archive/library, Budapest

Applications are open for a seminar for early-career professionals in Jewish heritage and graduate students contemplating a career in the field, organized by the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe in  conjunction with the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, part of the Allard Pierson at … continue reading →

Call for participation: In-person workshop”Critical Jewish Heritage Studies: Contested Pasts, Living Futures” in Leeds, March 30

We are pleased to share this Call for Participation in an in-person workshop of the R-JCH (Rethinking Jewish Cultural Heritage Today) network, March 30 in Leeds.  – – – – The network R-JCH (Rethinking Jewish Cultural Heritage Today) will hold … continue reading →

Poland: Mazel Tov! The historian Dr. Dariusz Stola is the new director of the POLIN  Museum of the History of Polish Jews. He was POLIN’s director in 2014-1019

Mazel Tov! Poland’s Minister of Culture and National Heritage Marta Cienkowska has appointed the award-winning historian Dr. Dariusz Stola the new director of the POLIN  Museum of the History of Polish Jews.  He will begin his five-year term on March … continue reading →

Call for Membership: European Sites of Holocaust Memory (ESHEM) initiative

Monument at the site of the Plaszow camp

We are pleased to share this Open Call for Membership from the European Sites of Holocaust Memory (ESHEM) initiative: The European Sites of Holocaust Memory (ESHEM) has launched an open call for membership. ESHEM is a new, pan-European network bringing … continue reading →