Jewish Heritage Europe

Ostrava, CZ: Rescued Torah leads to virtual community (follow up to Rabbi Goldstein’s Have Your Say essay)

In our latest “Have Your Say” essay Rabbi Andrew Goldstein discusses how the fact that his London synagogue uses a Torah scroll from the Czech town of Kolín led to close links with the town, whose Jewish community was destroyed … continue reading →

Have Your Say: The Sermon That Changed (not just) My Life

    For decades, London-based Rabbi Andrew Goldstein has traveled to central Europe helping in the revival of Jewish life. In particular, he has forged close ties between his own congregation and the town of Kolín in the Czech Republic, … 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 →

Kristallnacht: Wonderful surviving — and restored — synagogues to mark the anniversary

      The night of November 9-10 marks the  78th anniversary of the so-called Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938, when the Nazis launched coordinated violent attacks on Jews, Jewish property and Jewish places of worship all over Germany and German-occupied … continue reading →

The new JHE Newsletter is out: volunteerism, new Jewish museums, Jewish culture days & more

The August-September Jewish Heritage Europe Newsletter is out. The themes include volunteerism, new Jewish museums, Jewish culture days — and more. It features news and info from Ukraine, Poland, England, Scotland, Belarus, Slovakia, Malta, Czech Republic, Croatia, Italy, Latvia, Romania, … continue reading →