Jewish Heritage Europe

NEW RESOURCE FOR HUNGARY: Center for Jewish Art listing/description of all extant synagogue buildings in Hungary

The Center for Jewish Art has published an important new resource for Jewish heritage in Hungary: a listing and brief description of all known extant synagogue buildings in the country, resulting from the CJA’s extensive research trips to Hungary in … continue reading →

Poland: The “Coalition of Guardians” is launched as a bid to link the many volunteers and projects dealing with Jewish cemeteries all over Poland; its web site links to a cemetery database

Photographing in the Jewish cemetery, Biala, Poland

A new initiative aims to foster and coordinate clean-up and restoration work at the nearly 1,500 Jewish cemeteries all around Poland. The new bid — called a Coalition of Guardians of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland — was announced by Piotr … continue reading →

Call for Tender submission: Writing historical overviews of around 1,700 Jewish cemeteries being surveyed by the ESJF

We are happy to share an invitation to submit a tender for part of a Jewish cemetery project led by the European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative (ESJF), working together as a consortium with the Foundation for Jewish Heritage (FJH) and Centropa. … continue reading →

Celebrating (and Accessing) Jewish Archives, Collections, Libraries: In Italy, the UK, and in Europe

JHE primarily deals with Jewish built heritage — but also with the variety of issues linked to and concerning it, from museums and exhibits to tourism. Today, we celebrate Jewish Archives, Libraries, and Archival Collections — and highlight three projects … continue reading →

Ukraine: Major new resource for Jewish cemetery preservation in western Ukraine (with lots of material applicable to projects elsewhere, too)

We are pleased to introduce our readers to a major new (and comprehensive) web resource for Jewish cemetery restoration and commemoration. Called A Guide to Jewish Cemetery Preservation in Western Ukraine, it’s a dense and complex web site, launched this … continue reading →