We are happy to pass along this call from Museum Practice in the UK for participants in a study on volunteers at museums (and other such organizations). Launched 15 years ago, Museum Practice shares examples of new developments and … continue reading →
The sociologist Anna Susak from the Center for Urban History in L’viv gives a richly fascinating talk on how people in L’viv regard Jewish heritage, history and culture in the city. She was speaking in Riga, Latvia, at the Second International … continue reading →
A new permanent exhibit about the Holocaust and Jews opened this week at Auschwitz. Called “Shoah” and located in the Block 27 barracks, it replaces the woefully outdated exhibit that had been installed there in 1967 — and which had … continue reading →
The Education Department of the Christian Academy of Theology in Warsaw has launched a new degree program, ‘Animacja społeczna – judaizm i kultura żydowska na ziemiach polskich’ (Social animation — Judaism and Jewish culture in Polish lands), whose aim is to prepare students … continue reading →
JHE coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber writes that even though the project has been greenlighted, Rome is still at least three years away from having its Museum of the Shoah. The $30 million, city-funded museum, Italy’s first fullscale Holocaust museum, is to be … continue reading →
