Work to construct the state-of-the-art Lost Shtetl museum in Šeduva, Lithuania is under way. Ground was broken and the symbolic cornerstone laid in a ceremony Friday attended by Lithuania’s Prime Minister, Speaker of Parliament, Foreign Minister, senior diplomats, Jewish leaders, … continue reading →
Significant progress has been made in the renovation of the Jakob Glanzer synagogue in Lviv, one of only two synagogue buildings in the city that survive intact. The synagogue, known for its tall arched windows, was built in 1841-44 and … continue reading →
Mazel tov to Dr. Barbara Staudinger, named the new director of the Augsburg-Swabia Jewish Culture Museum, taking over from Dr. Benigna Schönhagen, who is retiring. One of the leading Jewish museums in Germany, the Augsburg museum was founded in 1985 … continue reading →
By now, it is fairly common — at least in Poland, but also elsewhere — to use the recovered fragments of gravestones from destroyed Jewish cemeteries to create Holocaust memorials. (We wrote about the recovery of gravestones and fragments in … continue reading →
With the launch of our revamped web site, Ruth Ellen Gruber, the Coordinator of Jewish Heritage Europe, takes a moment to reflect on the development of JHE since we went online in 2012. She describes some of the features of … continue reading →
