Jewish Heritage Europe

JHE in italiano: Sommario 9-12 luglio

Ecco l’appuntamento settimanale con le novità dal mondo dei beniculturali ebraici in Europa. Novità importanti provenienti da Repubblica Ceca, Lituania, Gran Bretagna… Buona lettura!   SOMMARIO 9-12 LUGLIO   Gran Bretagna: nuove linee guida in Inghilterra e Galles sulle condanne … continue reading →

Lithuania: Searching for a drowned shtetl (using sonar and GPR technology)

  Archaeologists are moving forward this summer with a longterm project using sonar and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to discover and document a one-time Jewish shtetl in Lithuania that today lies at the bottom of a man-made lake. The team is … continue reading →

New web site provides open access database to ESJF surveys of 1500 Jewish cemeteries, in project co-funded by the EU

The European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative (ESJF) has inaugurated a new web site dedicated to its ongoing, EU co-funded survey and mapping project of 1,500 Jewish cemeteries in five countries: Greece, Lithuania, Moldova, Slovakia, and Ukraine. The site includes an open … continue reading →

JHE Newsletter for April is out

The Jewish Heritage Europe Newsletter for April is out — news, views, insights from Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic, Moldova, Romania, Belarus, Lithuania, Sweden, Slovakia — and more. We also link to JHE Director Ruth Ellen Gruber’s op-ed in JTA on … continue reading →

Lithuania: documentation of Seirijai Jewish cemetery complete

Maceva, the Litvak Jewish Cemetery Catalogue, reports that documentation of the Jewish cemetery in Seirijai, which was initiated last year, is practically completed. The cemetery was cleaned and the remaining tombstones counted and photographed in August 2018  during the fourth … continue reading →