Jewish Heritage Europe News

In collaboration with France’s Heritage Foundation, the owner and the association that operates the historic former synagogue in Hégenheim have launched a fundraising campaign to continue restoration of the building as an arts center.  Donations will make it possible to ... continue reading →... Read more

Two projects aimed as preserving and valorizing Jewish history and heritage and in two seacoast cities — Brighton, on the English Channel and Grimsby, on the North Sea — have received National Lottery Heritage funded grants. One is the ongoing ... continue reading →... Read more

We wish all our readers a Happy Hanukkah! In these difficult times, and  in the wake of the horror in Sydney,  the spirit of Light is needed even more than ever — so, as we’ve done in the past, we ... continue reading →... Read more

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici Polonia: circa 2.500 frammenti di lapidi ebraiche, utilizzate dai nazisti per costruire ambienti sotterranei, sono stati recuperati da sotto un parcheggio a Janów Lubelski 11 dicembre ... continue reading →... Read more

This autumn, around 2,500 fragments of matzevot were extracted from beneath the parking lot of the City Hall in Janów Lubelski, a small town near Lublin in eastern Poland. The Nazi German occupiers had used them to build three underground ... continue reading →... Read more

After 37 years, Janusz Makuch is stepping down as director of the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival. Taking over will be his longtime deputy, Robert Gądek. “Thirty-seven years after the creation of the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, I have decided ... continue reading →... Read more

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici   Repubblica Ceca: lavori di restauro nel Vecchio Cimitero Ebraico di Praga 5 dicembre 2025 Quest’anno, il Museo Ebraico di Praga ha realizzato lavori di restauro ... continue reading →... Read more

Restoration work involving 23 gravestones in the historic Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague was carried out this year by the Prague Jewish Museum, as part of its ongoing work in the cemetery. The museum announced in a Facebook post that ... continue reading →... Read more

Mazel tov to architectural historian Dr. Eleonora Bergman who has received the 2025 Jan Zachwatowicz award, one of the most important honors in the field of cultural heritage protection in Poland. The award is given for outstanding achievements in the ... continue reading →... Read more

We are pleased to share the Call for Applications for the Dubnow Institute Visiting Research Fellowship Program (2026/27). Application deadline: December 16, 2025 The Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow (DI) offers fellowships to external researchers ... continue reading →... Read more

We have followed the development of the Willesden Jewish cemetery in northwest London into a place of public heritage known as the House of Life for nearly a decade, posting a number of times — but always from afar. JHE’s ... continue reading →... Read more

BOOKS! We want to highlight two new open access books that should be of interest to our readers. Since they are open access, they can both be freely accessed online. Virtual and Real-Life Spaces of Jewish Europe in the 21st ... continue reading →... Read more