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Call for Applications: Matanel Sefarad Seminar, in Barcelona June 2-July 1. Deadline for applications April 25

Model of the Girona Jewish quarter in the Girona Museum of Jewish History

We are pleased to share this Call for Applications for the Matanel Sefarad Seminar  International Summer Program 2025 to be held in Barcelona, June 2-July 1, 2025 (with field excursions to Girona and elsewhere).  Deadline for applications is Friday, April … continue reading →

Latest Have Your Say: Discover and Connect – How Tourism can make a Difference, by Flavia Matei (restored post)

Passage in the art nouveau complex in Oradea, designed by the Jewish architects Marcell Komor and Dezső Jakab and built 1907-8

Restored post (originally posted Feb. 17, 2025) During our recent outage, we lost material, including our latest Have Your Say personal essay — an essay titled Discover and Connect – How Tourism can make a Difference, by Flavia Matei. We … continue reading →

International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025: Naming names and highlighting the growing Holocaust Memorial Monuments Database

(JHE) — January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945, is marked in many countries as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is an occasion for commemorative ceremonies, educational programs, and other initiatives. Monuments and memorials are also … continue reading →

Call for Papers: Tracing Jewish Histories – The Long Lives of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, Judaica, and Architecture. Submission deadline Feb. 27, 2025

Medieval Old Synagogue, Sopron, Hungary

We are pleased to share this CfP for the symposium: Tracing Jewish Histories: The Long Lives of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, Judaica, and Architecture,   May 19-20, 2025, The Courtauld Institute of Art’s Vernon Square campus, London Deadline for submissions:  February … continue reading →

Call for Papers: Yiddish in Public Space: The Art of Language. At Bar Ilan. Submission deadline February 10, 2025

We are pleased to share this Call for Papers for what sounds like a fascinating symposium: Yiddish in Public Space: The Art of Language. April 21, 2025 at Bar Ilan University Deadline for submissions: February 10, 2025 With the advent … continue reading →