Jewish Heritage Europe

Austria: Using QR Codes to provide information on Jewish gravestones and the people they commemorate. A significant — and painstaking — project

Today’s visitors to Jewish cemeteries are often frustrated by their inability to read the Hebrew inscriptions on the gravestones. In Eisenstadt, Austria, this has been remedied by the attachment of stickers with QR codes to each matzevah in the city’s … continue reading →

Poland: App launched to help volunteers (including tourists) document “forgotten cemeteries” (of all denominations) in Poland

Poland’s Cultural Heritage Foundation, in cooperation with technology company Laboratorium EE, has launched an app aimed at encouraging (and enabling) the volunteer documentation of abandoned, neglected, and/or remote Jewish and other cemeteries in Poland and elsewhere — by tourists and other … continue reading →

Russia: Jewish heritage along the Volga River — the preliminary report from a 4,000-km research trip by the Center for Jewish Art is available online

This past Spring, researchers from the Center for Jewish Art carried out an epic, more than 4,000-kilometer journey along the Volga River researching Jewish material heritage. The preliminary, 63-page report from the trip is now available online. The team, led … continue reading →

Online lecture series of note: Synagogues and Jewish Cemeteries in the Russian Empire

Dr. Vladimir Levin, the director of the Center for Jewish Art, is holding a series of three online lectures that will be of interest to JHE readers. He will be discussing the history and architecture of Synagogues and Jewish Cemeteries in the … continue reading →

Romania: 7th Conservation and Restoration hands-on study camp to take place at Alba Iulia (and Zlatna) Jewish cemeteries — volunteers welcome

Can you get to west-central Romania? Volunteers are welcome to take part in a Conservation and Restoration Camp held July 26-30 at the Jewish Cemetery in Alba Iulia and August 2-6 at the Jewish cemetery in nearby Zlatna. This will … continue reading →