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 →
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 →
Next Sunday marks the annual European Day of Jewish Culture — a continent-wide celebration that encompasses a wide variety of events in more than two dozen countries. This year the unifying general theme is “Jewish Languages.” The EDJC has … continue reading →
JHE Coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber is featured in an interview about Jewish heritage sites around the world, published in the Travel section of USAToday newspaper. The interviewer asked her to highlight some of her favorite sites to visit, in North … continue reading →
On the occasion of his visit Tuesday (April 5) to the newly fenced Jewish cemetery in Frampol, southeastern Poland, Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland has published a strong op-ed decrying “a dramatic increase in anti-Semitism across our … continue reading →
