Jewish Heritage Europe

France: 2020 annual report summarizes restoration/preservation work on 15 Jewish cemeteries & 4 synagogues in the Bas-Rhin department of Alsace

Despite the pandemic, last year saw wide-ranging restoration and maintenance work on a score of historic Jewish heritage sites in the Bas-Rhin department of Alsace. A newly published report by the Heritage Department of the Jewish administrative umbrella Consistoire of … continue reading →

POLAND: Unique collection of more than 65,000 burial cards from the Łódź Jewish cemetery will be digitized, indexed and uploaded online

(JHE) — The unique preserved burial archive of the vast Jewish cemetery in Łódź will be digitized this year, with the details from the burial cards of more than 65,000 individuals uploaded and made available online. The collection is owned … continue reading →

Call for applications: Sefer Center International Grant on the History and Culture of Russian Jewry

We are pleased to share this call for applications from local and international scholars for a grant from the SEFER Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, in Moscow. SEFER’ CENTER INTERNATIONAL GRANT FOR RESEARCH ON THE HISTORY AND CULTURE … continue reading →

Call for Applicants: Grant for Research in the Field of History and Culture of the Jews in Russia (before Peter the Great)

We are pleased to share this Call for Applications by the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow. Foreign and Russian researchers are invited to apply for a grant funding:  “Research in the Field of History and Culture of the … continue reading →

Call for Entries: Centropa/ESJF Jewish Cemeteries Youth Digital Storytelling Competition

Photographing in the Jewish cemetery, Biala, Poland

We are pleased to share this Call for Entries in the Youth Digital Storytelling Competition from the Centropa/ESJF project to incorporate Jewish cemeteries into education Deadline for submissions in March 25, 2021 Students from the Centropa/ESJF project countries — Lithuania, … continue reading →