Jewish Heritage Europe News

Bletchley Park, a sprawling estate north of London, was the site of the World War II top-secret complex where an extraordinary group of people labored night and day to break the Nazi Enigma codes and other encryptions. Their work was ... continue reading →... Read more

It’s Thanksgiving today in the USA — so, as in past years, we’re reprising our post from November 26, 2015 celebrating “Turkey Day”… ✡︎  ✡︎  ✡︎ Happy Thanksgiving to all our American readers! Thanksgiving is often called “turkey-day” because of ... continue reading →... Read more

The long disused synagogue building  in Poznan — which the Nazis turned into a swimming pool — is up for sale, with the asking price of 35 million zloty (€8.2 million). Any conversion must include a space for a local ... continue reading →... Read more

The JHE monthly Newsletter for November is out — catch up with what you might have missed! News, views, and insights from Hungary, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Belarus, Austria, Latvia, Slovakia, Poland  and more, with a number of Calls for submissions ... continue reading →... Read more

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici   Polonia e Slovacchia: i lavori per restaurare le sinagoghe di Czarny Dunajec (Polonia) e di Trstená (Slovacchia) procederanno dopo un voto teso del consiglio comunale ... continue reading →... Read more

Thanks to a tense but positive vote this week by the municipal council of Czarny Dunajec in southern Poland, work will proceed on the restoration project for the town’s long disused former synagogue. The joint project to restore both it ... continue reading →... Read more

Mazel tov to the historian Irene Aue-Ben-David,  who will become the new director of the Jewish Museum Hohenems in April 2026. She will take over from Hanno Loewy, who will retire at the end of March after more than twenty ... continue reading →... Read more

Applications are now open for the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe’s Academic Jewish Studies programme for funding starting in September 2026. The deadline for applications is Tuesday 13 January 2026 at 5pm GMT. Three new grant categories for individual scholars, university ... continue reading →... Read more

  Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici   Nuovo saggio “Have Your Say”: “La creazione di fanzine come forma di conservazione del patrimonio”, di Bence Illyés 12 novembre 2025 Abbiamo pubblicato un ... continue reading →... Read more

We have a new Have Your Say Personal Essay…Called Zine creation as a form of heritage preservation, it’s by the Hungarian visual artist Bence Illyés, who has used Zines — small, informal,  hand-made publications — to explore aspects of the ... continue reading →... Read more

The magnificent domed synagogue in Trenčín has been reconsecrated after a full restoration that brought back the original colors and decorative design of the spectacular interior.  The building will be used for religious as well as cultural, educational, and social ... continue reading →... Read more

The  night of November 9-10 marks the 87th anniversary of the so-called Kristallnacht pogrom — Reichspogromnacht — in 1938, when the Nazis launched coordinated violent attacks on Jews, Jewish property and Jewish places of worship all over Germany and German-occupied ... continue reading →... Read more