Jewish Heritage Europe

The JHE Newsletter is out – a double summer issue

  The new Jewish Heritage Europe Newsletter is now online — a double summer issue for June and July. There’s news, info, and insights from Poland, Czech Republic, Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine, France, Russia, the UK (Scotland) — and more. Click … continue reading →

Poland: Get involved with scientific survey of mass grave sites

  There are still a couple days to sign up to take part in the next stage of the  “Holocaust Killing Sites” project that uses ground-penetrating radar and other non-invasive technologies to map Holocaust mass grave sites. The project,  Recording … continue reading →

Poland: archaeologists probe foundations of destroyed New Synagogue in Wrocław

  In a plot of land between a kindergarten and a car park, archaeologists in Wrocław, in southwestern Poland, have revealed parts of the foundations of the monumental New Synagogue that was destroyed on Kristallnacht in 1938. “The overgrown plot … continue reading →

Discovering Ashkenaz (and its folklore) — online courses via YIVO

  YIVO is again offering the 6-week, online course Discovering Ashkenaz: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe taught by Samuel Kassow, the Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College and one of the leading scholars on the Holocaust and … continue reading →