Jewish Heritage Europe

Jewish Topographies: Major Online Conference on Jewish Architecture March 28-31

The last days of March will see an important Jewish heritage conference that will be accessible online, the regular “Jewish Topographies” conference organized by the Bet Tfila Research Center for Jewish Architecture in Europe at Braunschweig Technical University. Send an email … continue reading →

Center for Jewish Art: New Report details the CJA’s extensive and varied research, documentation, publication and other activities from June 2019-December 2021

Few — if any — institutions or organizations carry out as much research, publication, and other activities related to the documentation and analysis of Jewish heritage as the Center for Jewish Art at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. We have highlighted … continue reading →

Austria: Using QR Codes to provide information on Jewish gravestones and the people they commemorate. A significant — and painstaking — project

Today’s visitors to Jewish cemeteries are often frustrated by their inability to read the Hebrew inscriptions on the gravestones. In Eisenstadt, Austria, this has been remedied by the attachment of stickers with QR codes to each matzevah in the city’s … continue reading →

Russia: Jewish heritage along the Volga River — the preliminary report from a 4,000-km research trip by the Center for Jewish Art is available online

This past Spring, researchers from the Center for Jewish Art carried out an epic, more than 4,000-kilometer journey along the Volga River researching Jewish material heritage. The preliminary, 63-page report from the trip is now available online. The team, led … continue reading →