Jewish Heritage Europe News

Every year on Jewish Heritage Europe, we post round-ups of initiatives and projects aimed at restoring and cleaning up Jewish cemeteries all over Europe. We feel it so important to highlight these initiatives, which are often overlooked or ignored. Most ... continue reading →... Read more

Three heritage funding bodies will contribute a total of  £40,000 to support a Feasibility Study by the Foundation  for Jewish Heritage (FJH) aimed at identifying a viable future use for the historic Middle Street Synagogue in Brighton. The National Lottery ... continue reading →... Read more

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici    Continuiamo a celebrare Pessach con la matzah e macchine per la sua creazione! 26 aprile 2024 Il Seder di Pessach è finito, ma fino alla ... continue reading →... Read more

The Passover seder is over, but we are still eating matzo… Here are a few images of matzo making equipment — machines and ovens — in several historic synagogues. We have posted some of them before, but it’s alway fun ... continue reading →... Read more

If you are in Budapest, don’t miss the closing days of an exhibition that celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Jewish architect Béla Lajta.  The exhibit, which has run since December 20 at the Kiscelli Museum, ... continue reading →... Read more

Heartfelt greetings from JHE for a meaningful Pesach! The Seder meal, with its symbolic foods arranged on a special plate, is guided by the Haggadah, whose wealth of ancient texts and songs retell the story of the Biblical Exodus from ... continue reading →... Read more

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici    Polonia: in occasione dell’81º anniversario dell’inizio dell’insurrezione del Ghetto di Varsavia, proponiamo monumenti che la ricordano 19 aprile 2024 Il 19 aprile si è celebrato ... continue reading →... Read more

Today, April 19, marks the 81st anniversary of the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The Ghetto, as well as the Uprising and its fighters, are commemorated in various places on-site and elsewhere — the main memorial is the grand ... continue reading →... Read more

The late 18th century synagogue in Siena, Italy, damaged by an earthquake in February 2023, has been listed by Europa Nostra as one of the 2024 Seven Most Endangered Heritage Sites in Europe. (We posted in February when the synagogue ... continue reading →... Read more

The magnificent domed former synagogue in St. Pölten, west of Vienna, opens again this week as a Jewish cultural center following a €4.6 million restoration and redevelopment financed in equal parts by the federal government, the province of Lower Austria, ... continue reading →... Read more

Passover — Pesach — begins on Monday night, with the Seder meal — a ritual repast that forms the basis of installations in various Jewish (and sometimes other) museums. With its Matzo and its symbolic foods arranged on a special ... continue reading →... Read more

Young volunteers are restoring the one-time synagogue in a centuries-old building  in Dernau, on the Ahr River in western Germany, that suffered serious damage in devastating floods that swept the area in 2021. The next volunteer restoration camp is scheduled ... continue reading →... Read more