Jewish Heritage Europe

Center for Jewish Art: New Report details the CJA’s extensive and varied research, documentation, publication and other activities from June 2019-December 2021

Few — if any — institutions or organizations carry out as much research, publication, and other activities related to the documentation and analysis of Jewish heritage as the Center for Jewish Art at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. We have highlighted … continue reading →

CZ: Photographer captures “Invisible Synagogues” — blank spaces where destroyed synagogues once stood in cities, towns, and villages in the Czech Republic

Many photographers have focused their work on surviving — if ruined — Jewish heritage sites in Europe. The Czech photographer Štěpán Bartoš has a documentation, exhibit, and book project where he photographs the blank spaces in the Czech Republic where … continue reading →

Italy: Online “census” of Jewish cemeteries in Emilia-Romagna is launched

After 15 years of work, photographs and other documentation of the 20 Jewish cemeteries in north-central Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region have been uploaded to a freely accessed online database, part of an online platform of overall digitized heritage material in the … continue reading →

Hanukkah’s coming! (Gift ideas…the 2022 Vanished World calendar, and a coffee-table book, “Synagogues: Marvels of Judaism”)

It’s Hanukkah next week…. so here are a couple gift ideas…. THE “VANISHED WORLD” 2022 CALENDAR Once again, the incredibly productive and generous Christian Herrmann has created a “Vanished World” calendar based on his evocative photographs of Jewish heritage in … continue reading →

UK: A current exhibit and new online resource trace Manchester’s vanished Jewish spaces & places

A current exhibition and a new online resource trace the history and geography of Jewish life in Manchester, the UK’s second largest Jewish center, after London.  The exhibition is “Vanished Streets” — an exhibition running October 20-January 16 at the … continue reading →