A new book, published in Turkey in English, provides a detailed look at the small and almost forgotten Jewish cemetery in the town of Bodrum, on Turkey’s Aegean coast south of Izmir. Written by the researcher Dr. Siren Bora … continue reading →
The Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe has announced the launch of a new initiative — the European Jewish Cemeteries Advisory Network (EJCAN). The launch coincides with the launch of JHE’s new JHE Jewish Cemetery Forum, a dedicated section of our … continue reading →
This month — February 2017 — marks JHE’s fifth anniversary. We are celebrating the occasion with the launch of a new section of our web site — the JHE Jewish Cemetery Forum. Here we draw together news, information and … continue reading →
Holešov, in the northern Moravia region of the Czech Republic, is known for the renaissance Shach synagogue (or Old Synagogue) — built the 16th century and now a Museum of Moravian Jewry. Before WW2, another, modern, synagogue stood in … continue reading →
Sergey R. Kravtsov of the Center for Jewish Art at Hebrew University has uploaded to academia.edu several of his recent articles, papers, and lectures on Jewish heritage in Ukraine, Poland (and elsewhere), which can be downloaded from the site … continue reading →
