Mazel tov to Dr. Kathrin Pieren, who has taken up the post of the first full-time director of the Westphalia Jewish Museum in Dorsten, Germany since the museum opened in 1992. Dr. Pieren took up her post on July 1. … continue reading →
We are pleased to introduce our readers to a major new (and comprehensive) web resource for Jewish cemetery restoration and commemoration. Called A Guide to Jewish Cemetery Preservation in Western Ukraine, it’s a dense and complex web site, launched this … continue reading →
New JHE Have Your Say personal essay COVID-19 quarantine measures forced the closure of Jewish heritage sites and cancelled many volunteer Jewish cemetery clean-up actions. Monika Tarajko, of the Grodzka Gate NN Theatre in Lublin, Poland, often volunteers with such … continue reading →
More than a dozen non-Jewish Poles in central, eastern, and southeastern Poland were honored this week for their work in preserving, promoting, and caring for Jewish culture and heritage in Poland and promoting Jewish-Polish dialogue. Their awards marked the 23rd … continue reading →
This is major — a vast Digitized Database of Turkish Jewish Cemeteries has just been launched online and made available to the public by the Goldstein Goren Diaspora Research Center at Tel Aviv University. Called A World Beyond: Jewish Cemeteries … continue reading →
