Jewish Heritage Europe

Leo Baeck Institute Archives Going Online

The archives of the New York-based Leo Baeck Institute (now part of the Center for Jewish History) will be going online as of Oct. 16 as a portal called DigiBaeck. This will represent an unprecedented resource of digitally accessible primary … continue reading →

Jewish Tourism and Information Center in Brno

  It’s worth cross-posting this item from JHE coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber’s  Jewish Heritage Travel blog about the exemplary Jewish Tourism and Information Center in Brno, Czech Republic, which she visited last week.   Once again I have to hand … continue reading →

Austria — “book of the dead” may help map Jewish cemetery

  The recent discovery of the book of funeral records for the Jewish cemetery in Deutschkreutz, Austria, may help map the graves in cemetery, which was destroyed by the Nazis in World War II. According to  Austrian media, the records … continue reading →