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Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici    Call for Papers: Colloquio sui Cimiteri, 23 maggio 2025. Scadenza per l’invio delle proposte: 2 maggio 2025 21 febbraio 2025 Il 26° Colloquio sui Cimiteri si terrà il 23 maggio 2025 a York, in Regno... Read more

We are pleased to share this Call for Papers for the 26th Cemeteries Colloquium, to take place May 23, 2025 in York, UK. Deadline for abstract submission is May 2, 2025. The Colloquium, organized by the Cemetery Research Group (CRG), is a forum for the discussion of new and emerging cemetery... Read more

We mourn the loss of Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a  prominent historian, journalist and tireless fighter for human rights and social justice, who died in Warsaw on Tuesday, aged 98.  Turski was closely involved in the establishment ... continue reading →... Read more

Flavia Matei was born and raised in Oradea, Romania. Though she is not Jewish,  she has had a deep love for Jewish culture since her teenaged years, when she first learned about the Jewish history of Oradea and began immersing ... continue reading →... Read more

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici    Riproponiamo un saggio fotografico per San Valentino (con alcune aggiunte): cuori nelle decorazioni del patrimonio ebraico 14 febbraio 2025 La settimana scorsa si è celebrato ... continue reading →... Read more

Happy Valentine’s Day! Of course Valentine’s Day is not a Jewish holiday… the Jewish holiday celebrating Love is Tu B’Av — the 15th of the month of Av —  in August. Still, Valentine’s Day is symbolized by the Heart, and ... continue reading →... Read more

It’s Tu B’Shevat — the 15th of the Hebrew month of Shevat (or Shvat), known as “the New Year for Trees:” the time of year when the earliest-blooming trees in the land of Israel start to flower.  It is the custom to reflect ... continue reading →... Read more

We are pleased to share this Call for Submissions for a volume on Authorizing Jewish Heritage—Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 23, 2025. This planned anthology is dedicated to the discussion of multi-layered contexts of Jewish cultural heritage, ... continue reading →... Read more

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici    Webinar di interesse il 12 febbraio: “Lo Shtetl come patrimonio locale. Storie dalla terra di confine tra Polonia, Ucraina e Bielorussia” 9 febbraio 2025 Il ... continue reading →... Read more

A webinar on Wednesday, February 12, in the “Zoom in on the Forum” series will be of interest to our readers. Called Shtetl as Local Heritage. Stories from the Borderland of Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus, it will explore the universe ... continue reading →... Read more

Grants to take part in the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe – Jewish Heritage Seminar, August 24-29, 2025 Deadline for applications: April 8, 2025. The Seminar The week-long seminar is intended for early-career professionals in Jewish heritage and graduate students contemplating ... continue reading →... Read more