A new virtual reconstruction at Rome’s Jewish Museum lets visitors “tour” the historic Roman ghetto. Pope Paul IV confined Jews in a walled ghetto in 1555. Sited low on the bank of the Tiber, it was a squalid, densely … continue reading →
An extensive — and it is hoped growing — new online resource on Hungarian synagogues has been recently launched. Called synagogues.hu it amounts to a sort of virtual museum on Hungarian synagogue architecture — and in fact was organized by … continue reading →
The Red de Juderias, or Network of Jewish Quarters, in Spain has just unveiled a new “Routes of Sefarad” smartphone and tablet app that will allow users to navigate through the 24 old Jewish quarters the network. The app is … continue reading →
The theme of the just-concluded annual conference of the Association of European Jewish Museums was “Approaches to Authenticity: the Virtual vs. the Material vs. the Recreated” — JHE coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber spoke on a panel there devoted to that … continue reading →
We are pleased to forward this Call for Papers for what looks like will be a fascinating workshop/conference in March 2015 that will deal with many of the issues we focus on at Jewish Heritage Europe and which formed the … continue reading →
