Jewish Heritage Europe

JHE 2016 Year in Review — Most shared posts

  Over the past year, we have posted more than 200 news items in our Jewish Heritage Europe News Feed. As 2016 comes to an end, we thought we would draw attention to the 50 (or so) posts  that were … continue reading →

Czech Republic: Prague Old Jewish Cemetery digitization project

The Jewish Museum of Prague has embarked on the final stage of a complex, years-long project to digitize the gravestones and other information related to the Old Jewish Cemetery in the Czech capital, but it could still be several years … continue reading →

Jewish Museums in Europe — Comprehensive Survey Released (& Online)

The wide-ranging survey of Jewish Museums in Europe carried out by Dr. Brigitte Sion of the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe has been published online, following its formal presentation at the annual conference of the Association of European Jewish Museums. (We … continue reading →

Lithuania: Recovery of abused Jewish gravestones in Vilnius continues

Jewish gravestones that were used to build the steps to the main entrance to a hospital in Vilnius were removed last week and taken to the site of the vast Užupis Jewish cemetery where they once stood, joining thousands of … continue reading →

Death of Yaffa Eliach, preserver of memory

  News has come of the death of Yaffa Eliach, 79, the scholar who — as the New York Times put it survived the Nazi massacres of Jews in her Lithuanian town, and went on to document their daily life … continue reading →