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RESOURCES
AEPJ – European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage
Promotes and loosely coordinates the annual European Day of Jewish Culture, held in many countries across Europe on the first Sunday in September. Also promotes the European Routes of Jewish Heritage. There are several thematic routes as well as routes in several countries.
Photos and brief information about Jewish sites around the world (Facebook page)
European Institute of Cultural Routes
The Council of Europe entrusted the Institute to follow up already elected routes, to co-ordinate and provide technical aid to networks, in particular in their development in Central and Eastern Europe, to initiate new proposals as well as to disseminate information and set up a database that will constitute the memory of the program of the cultural routes.
Jewish Discoveries — videos of Jewish sites, “a travelogue of Jewish heritage and contemporary life”
Chabad’s Jewish travel web site, with links to its Jewish travel sites for several countries. For some countries, it provides very detailed information.
Blog about Jewish travel and heritage, mainly in Eastern and Central Europe, by Jewish Heritage Europe’s Coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber, author of National Geographic Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe
JGuideEurope — The Cultural Guide to Jewish Europe
Web site based on a Jewish cultural guidebook published in 2002. The web site has English and French versions
Sam Gruber’s Jewish Art and Monuments blog
Insightful comments and reports by a pioneer of Jewish heritage research and preservation, President of the International Survey of Jewish Monuments
TRAVEL & TOURISM PROFESSIONALS (General/International)
You can find contacts for local Jewish travel professionals in the Tourism & Genealogy sections of the individual Country pages.
Guided tours specializing in Prague and elsewhere in the Czech Republic and central Europe
Travel company specializing in group trips for Jewish singles; itineraries includes Jewish heritage sites.
A Paris-based company offering customized Kosher Tours and travel experiences.
Link to a page listing professional Jewish genealogy researchers recommended by users of JewishGen.org
Travel company based in the Netherlands and Israel, offering Jewish heritage tours to a number of countries.
Jewish Heritage Tours (Ahavath Torah)
U.S.-based agency specializing in international Jewish heritage tours.
Jewish Heritage Tours of Eastern Europe (and Elsewhere)
A U.K.-based company specializing in kosher group travel to Jewish Heritage destinations
Travel and tour program of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York
Specialized tour agency that offers customized itineraries to many countries, regions, and cities
Runs a variety of kosher and Jewish heritage tours in many countries, including river boat cruises in central Europe, France, and Portugal & Spain
A Berlin-based Jewish owned and operated tour company that specializes in Jewish heritage and today’s Jewish communities. It also offers a range of Jewish-themed historical tours, art and architectural tours and other special programs to more than 30 destinations throughout Europe.
Florida-based travel operation specializing in Jewish heritage travel and tours.
Specializes in Jewish tours of the Balkans and elsewhere in eastern Europe.
France-based association that organizes Jewish cultural heritage trips in Europe and around the world for its 4,000 members. Participants must be members of the association.