Jewish Heritage Europe News

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

The famous synagogue and rabbi’s residence in Sadhora (Sadigura) Ukraine, outside Chernivtsi, was heavily damaged last week when a man described as mentally unstable broke into the building and set fire to a pile of books in its main hall. ... continue reading →... Read more

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici   Regno Unito: Bletchley Park, luogo dell’operazione top secret della Seconda guerra mondiale per decifrare i codici nazisti “Enigma”, fu un tempo una Jewish Country House ... continue reading →... Read more

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