Jewish Heritage Europe

Job Opportunity: Wiener Holocaust Library — Part-time, three-year Community Engagement Coordinator

Southampton, England. Old Jewish cemetery

We are pleased to share this job opportunity for a part-time, three-year position as Community Engagement Coordinator, posted by our friends at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London. The WHL is the world’s oldest Holocaust archive and the home of Britain’s largest … continue reading →

Call for Papers: A Jewish Europe? Virtual and Real-Life Spaces in the 21st Century. Gothenburg, Sweden May 3-5, 2022

Jewish Heritage Museum, Padova. A projection in place of of the ark, which was transferred to Israel in 1956.

We are pleased to share the CfP for a conference organised by Gothenburg University and the Parkes Institute of Southampton University.  JHE’s Ruth Ellen Gruber and independent scholar Diana Pinto will be the keynote speakers. Submission deadline is December 10. … continue reading →

Call for Papers: Panels and Lectures on Visual Arts; World Congress of Jewish Studies — August 2022

  The Eighteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, August 8-12, 2022 Section of Panels and Lectures on Visual Arts   If all goes well, the 18th World Congress of Jewish Studies will be held next August — in person — … continue reading →

Poland Update: Full-scale replica of the destroyed Połaniec wooden synagogue is installed at the open air ethnographic museum in Sanok

(JHE) — A full-scale replica of one of the hundreds of East European wooden synagogues destroyed during WW2 has been installed at Poland’s largest open-air ethnographic museum, or skansen. The replica of the synagogue of Połaniec  now forms part of a … continue reading →