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Call for applications: 4-year PhD President’s Fellowship at Bar Ilan University

We are happy to share this Call for Applications for the 4-year PhD President’s Fellowship at Bar Ilan University.  – – – – – The Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University invites prospective doctoral candidates to apply for the … continue reading →

European Day of Jewish Culture will go ahead; more Jewish museums & heritage sites are reopening

Here’s some good news…The AEPJ has announced that the annual European Day of Jewish Culture will go ahead in September, with enhanced digital and online activities where on-site programming is not possible. Meanwhile, a growing number of Jewish museums and … continue reading →

Italy: Discovering Jewish built heritage in the Digital Library of Italy’s main Holocaust research center

The Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation Foundation (CDEC) is Italy’s main research institution on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, but thanks to a growing digital library project launched in 2015 it is also a key online source of visual and archival … continue reading →

Poland: Death of Dr. Łucja Pawlicka-Nowak, longtime key activist regarding Jewish heritage and Holocaust studies & commemoration in Poland

We have recently learned of the death of Dr. Łucja Pawlicka-Nowak, for decades a key figure in research on the Holocaust and Jewish heritage in Poland. She died February 27 at the age of 82. Pawlicka-Nowak was the director of … continue reading →

An online exhibition of Memory Maps lets you “visit” the lost world of pre-WW2 towns, cities, and shtetls in eastern Europe the way they were remembered

A fascinating, and quite moving, online exhibit allows you to “visit” pre-war cities, towns, and shtetls in half a dozen countries through maps of them drawn from memory after the Shoah. Called “Atlas of Memory Maps,” the exhibit is mounted … continue reading →