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The Coronavirus Emergency and Jewish Heritage – How are projects, plans, and/or institutions affected?

The Coronavirus pandemic is dangerous, real, and spreading. In addition to health concerns, restrictions put into place are affecting cultural institutions, museums, education, religious observance, business operations, entertainment and many (in some countries most) aspects of normal every-day life. We … continue reading →

Call for Papers: Jewish Topographies, Braunschweig, September 2020

A memorial in Warsaw that marks the border of the Warsaw Ghetto

We are pleased to share this Call for Papers for the conference: Jewish Topographies 5th International Congress on Jewish Architecture Braunschweig, Technische Universität, September 21 – 23, 2020 Organized by Bet Tfila – Research Unit for Jewish Architecture in Europe … continue reading →

Germany: A new synagogue is inaugurated in Konstanz, 81 years after the pre-war synagogue was destroyed on Kristallnacht

The Jewish community in Konstanz, Germany, has a brand new synagogue. The new synagogue in the city, located on Lake Constance on the Swiss border, was inaugurated  on Sunday (Nov. 10) — 81 years after the city’s pre-WW2 synagogue was … continue reading →

Kristallnacht: Wonderful surviving — and restored — synagogues to mark the 81st anniversary

By now it’s a JHE tradition. The night of November 9-10 marks the  81st 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 … continue reading →