Jewish Heritage Europe

Report on the April 2013 conference on Managing Jewish Immovable Heritage

We are pleased to post the downloadable pdf of the report brochure on the international conference Managing Jewish Immovable Heritage, held in Krakow in April 2013. Click here to download the PDF of the brochure           … continue reading →

From “Atlantis” to …? The past and present of Jewish Krakow in the second decade of the new millennium

In the In Focus section, we are pleased to publish the paper From “Atlantis” to …? The past and present of Jewish Krakow in the second decade of the new millennium by Dr. Monika Murzyn-Kupisz, which she presented in the session … continue reading →

Cross-border project renovates synagogues in Debrecen, HU and Oradea, RO

  Thanks to a more than €1.41 million grant from the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), two historic synagogues — the Kapolnas street synagogue in Debrecen, eastern Hungary and the Zion synagogue across the border in Oradea (Nagyvarad in … continue reading →

Synagogue in Tykocin one of Seven “New Wonders” of Poland

The 17th century Great Synagogue in the small village of Tykocin, in northeastern Poland, has been voted one of the “new  seven wonders” of Poland, in the third edition of a readers’ contest sponsored by the Polish edition of National Geographic … continue reading →

How to mark the Kristallnacht anniversary? With glorious synagogues!

This weekend marks the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night of Nov. 9-10 1938 when the Nazis launched coordinated violent attacks on Jews, Jewish property and Jewish places of worship all over Germany and German-occupied territory. More than 1,000 synagogues … continue reading →