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Call for Papers: IV International Conference Jews in Galicia: Histories, Topographies, and Texts. Krakow, October 20-21. Deadline for applications June 15

Visitors at the Kupa Synagogue, Krakow

We are pleased to share this Call for Papers for the IV International Conference Jews in Galicia: Histories, Topographies, and Texts, to be held in person in Kraków on October 20-21, 2025. The deadline for applications is June 15. From … continue reading →

Call for Applications: Stewart and Lynda Resnick Fellowship Program, at the National Library of Israel. Summer 2026. Deadline for submissions June 30, 2025

Correspondence of prolific Hungarian synagogue architect Lipot Baumhorn, at the Central Archives of the Jewish People, housed at the NLI

We are pleased to share this Call for Applications for the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Fellowship Program, to be researchers in residence during the summer of 2026 at the National Library of Israel.  Deadline for applications is June 30, 2025. … continue reading →

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 →