Jewish Heritage Europe

Call for applications: Sefer Center Grants for Research on Russian Jewry – 2020

We are happy to share this year’s call for grant applications which is open for researchers from Russia and abroad, including Europe, USA and Canada, Israel and Australia. The SEFER Center research award recipients will be selected by a committee … continue reading →

Netherlands: Main Dutch Jewish genealogy organization & web site to close; databases to be transferred

Attention family historians with an interest in the Netherlands….we are sharing an announcement from the Dutch Jewry web site regarding changes to its databases, web site, and activities. In the summer of 2020, it states, the Dutch Jewish genealogy organization … continue reading →

Hungary: Tracing the history of Budapest’s Dohany Street synagogue through the online photo archive Fortepan

The twin-towered Dohany St Synagogue is a city landmark in downtown Budapest and a symbol of Hungarian Judaism, used for worship and also visited each year by scores of thousands of tourists. The elaborate, Moorish-style building was designed by the … continue reading →

Jewish cemeteries: ESJF gets new €1 million grant for mapping in 7 countries; recent desecration in Slovakia is latest in spate of vandalisms, raising concerns and questions

Days after a vandal attack that toppled dozens of headstones in the Jewish cemetery in Namestovo, Slovakia, the European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative (ESJF) announced that the European Commission has awarded  €1 million to a consortium it leads to continue the … continue reading →

New Have Your Say: Saving the Mogilev (Belarus) Jewish Cemetery; Saving History, Saving Memory

Our new Have Your Say is by Ida Shenderovich​, an educator and manager of social and charity projects at the Jewish Community of Mogilev, Belarus. She writes that the preservation of the heritage and collective memory of the Jewish community … continue reading →