Jewish Heritage Europe News

We are pleased to share this Call for Applications for The Heritage Laboratory – Belchite, Spain –Fieldwork training program, Summer 2026, announced by The Institute for Jewish Studies Barcelona (EJB) the Matanel Sefarad Seminar, and The Spanish Association of Military ... continue reading →... Read more

We are pleased to share this Call for Applications for Fellowship Programs at the Center for Jewish History in New York. Seven fellowships are available, starting in September 2026. Click the links to find descriptions and application guidelines for each. ... continue reading →... Read more

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici   Ucraina: una mostra presenterà gli affreschi delle sinagoghe della Bucovina e includerà la loro recente digitalizzazione 30 ottobre 2025 Recentamente, tre sinagoghe della Bucovina occidentale, ... continue reading →... Read more

In January, we posted about the recent laser scan digitalization of three synagogues in the Bukovina region of western Ukraine that are noted for their elaborate interior decoration: the Beit Tfilah Benjamin Synagogue in Chernivtsi, currently in use by the ... continue reading →... Read more

Mazel tov to Hanno Loewy, the director of the Jewish Museum in Hohenems, Austria, who has been awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art! He was among 22 people who received high state honors for their services to ... continue reading →... Read more

Mazel tov to the recipients of the 2025 POLIN awards, granted annually by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw to people “actively working to protect the memory of the history of Polish Jews.”   The ... continue reading →... Read more

A new exhibit at Italy’s state-run National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS) in Ferrara uses archival photographs, documents, and correspondence to “rethink” Italy’s Jewish heritage and show how it is an integral part of the country’s landscape ... continue reading →... Read more

Got some time on your hands and you don’t just want to scroll? Why not play an online jigsaw puzzle — of a synagogue! The web site www.jigsawplanet.com   has a collection of hundreds of puzzles based on pictures of synagogues ... continue reading →... Read more

At a ceremony on Sunday (October 26) the 19th century synagogue of Metz was reopened after a €2.3 million restoration that had kept it closed for two years. Local TV said more than 650 people packed the synagogue for the ... continue reading →... Read more

During the night of October 22, a powerful blast wave from Russian Shaheed drone strikes hit the historic synagogue in the Podil district of Kyiv. The damage does not appear to have been extensive — it mainly seems to have ... continue reading →... Read more

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici   Svizzera: il Museo Ebraico della Svizzera si trasferisce in una nuova sede e verrà inaugurato il 30 novembre. Un’opera di Frank Stella ne decora la ... continue reading →... Read more

The Jewish Museum of Switzerland, in Basel, reopens November 30 with a new and expanded permanent exhibition in new premises — a former wooden tobacco warehouse that has been completely restructured as a state of the art museum. It will ... continue reading →... Read more