Mazel tov to the recipients of the 2025 POLIN awards, granted annually by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw to people “actively working to protect the memory of the history of Polish Jews.” The … continue reading →
Mazel tov to Johannes Reiss, former longtime director of the Austrian Jewish Museum in Eisenstadt, who has received a lifetime achievement award from Austria’s Burgenland region. Reiss was awarded the Simon-Goldberger Prize for memory and memorial culture, commemorative category “for … continue reading →
Earlier this summer, B’nai B’rith International presented its 2025 Gratitude Award honoring Polish citizens who have shown commitment to preserving Jewish heritage in Poland and cultivating Jewish-Polish relations to Robert Kobylarczyk, Andrzej Koraszewski and Ireneusz Socha in the individual category, … continue reading →
Nominations are now open for the 2026 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize — a biennial award recognizing outstanding achievements in saving structures emblematic of the modernist architectural movement. Deadline for submissions is September 5. The prize includes a cash … continue reading →
Do you know of a book on Jewish themes that has been published in English translation in 2023-2025? It could be eligible for new Freudenheim Translation Prize launched by the Jewish Literary Foundation. The prize is sponsored by Tom and Leslie … continue reading →
