A ceremony this past week celebrated the completion of a preservation and fencing project at the Jewish cemetery in Lubavitch, Russia, the village near Smolensk where the Chabad movement was was based for more than 100 years and where some of its … continue reading →
We are happy to share this call for grant applicants, which is open for researchers from Russia and abroad, including Europe, USA and Canada, Israel and Australia. The deadline for applications is April 15, 2018 The SEFER Center awards … continue reading →
We are happy to share this Call for Papers — the deadline is November 1. The 25th International Annual Conference on Jewish Studies will take place in Moscow on February 4-6, 2018. The conference program will include sections reflecting … continue reading →
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 →
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 →
