Jewish Heritage Europe

Call for Membership: European Sites of Holocaust Memory (ESHEM) initiative

Monument at the site of the Plaszow camp

We are pleased to share this Open Call for Membership from the European Sites of Holocaust Memory (ESHEM) initiative: The European Sites of Holocaust Memory (ESHEM) has launched an open call for membership. ESHEM is a new, pan-European network bringing … continue reading →

Germany: Hamburg’s Altona museum opens a permanent exhibition about Hamburg Jewish history, incorporating a Jewish component in a mainstream museum

Hamburg’s Altona Museum, one of the largest regional museums in Germany, has opened a permanent exhibition about 400 years of local Jewish history, incorporating  a Jewish component in a mainstream museum. The exhibit, Landmarks of Jewish History: A project space … continue reading →

Call for Applications: JewishGen’s L’Dor V’Dor Legacy Program for university students and recent graduates. Jewish heritage education and opportunity to help clean-up and preserve a Jewish cemetery in Poland

We are pleased to share this Call for Applications for JewishGen’s sixth annual Bennett and Robin Greenspan L’Dor V’Dor Legacy Program for university students and recent graduates, to take place from July 7 to July 16, 2026. The deadline for applications … continue reading →

Call for Applications: Dubnow Institute Visiting Research Fellowship Program (2026/27)

Scales of Justice on a gravestone in the Ashkenazi section of the Jewish cemetery in Hamburg Altona, Germany

We are pleased to share the Call for Applications for the Dubnow Institute Visiting Research Fellowship Program (2026/27). Application deadline: December 16, 2025 The Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow (DI) offers fellowships to external researchers … continue reading →

Books: Two new open access books of note — “Virtual and Real-Life Spaces of Jewish Europe in the 21st Century” collection of essays and “Architecture of Memory: Exploring (Post-) Jewish Spaces in Eastern Europe,” by Natalia Romik

BOOKS! We want to highlight two new open access books that should be of interest to our readers. Since they are open access, they can both be freely accessed online. Virtual and Real-Life Spaces of Jewish Europe in the 21st … continue reading →