Jewish Heritage Europe News

At the beginning of May and in mid-July we published our first and second round-ups for 2025, showcasing some of the many Jewish cemetery clean-up initiatives taking place this spring and summer in various European countries.   Here’s a third round-up ... continue reading →... Read more

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici   Call for Papers: Conferenza Internazionale “Trasformazione del patrimonio, patrimonio della trasformazione. Il cambiamento politico e il suo impatto sulle sinagoghe”, che si terrà dal 12 ... continue reading →... Read more

We are pleased to share this Call for Papers for the international conference Transformation of Heritage, Heritage of Transformation. Political Change and Its Impact on Synagogues, to be held October 12–14, 2026 in Klaipeda, Lithuania.  Deadline for submissions – January ... continue reading →... Read more

The European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative (ESJF) has published as online books its surveys of Jewish cemeteries in Poland and Slovakia. The books are published in the ISSUU format and are searchable and sharable. Both cover extant cemeteries and destroyed cemetery ... continue reading →... Read more

The Jewish holiday of Sukkoth, the “festival of booths,” starts tonight and lasts a week. It is both a harvest festival and a commemoration of the years Jews spent wandering in the desert in Biblical times. Jews traditionally build temporary ... continue reading →... Read more

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici   Austria: mazel tov a Johannes Reiss, onorato dalla regione del Burgenland in Austria per la sua lunga attività presso il Museo Ebraico Austriaco e per ... continue reading →... Read more

  We wish all of our subscribers and readers a meaningful Yom Kippur! Gmar chatima tova!        ... Read more

Mazel tov to Johannes Reiss, former longtime director of the Austrian Jewish Museum in Eisenstadt, who has received a lifetime achievement award from Austria’s Burgenland region. Reiss was awarded the Simon-Goldberger Prize for memory and memorial culture, commemorative category  “for ... continue reading →... Read more

We are pleased to share this Call for Participants from the ESJF — for Professionals from Moldovan museums and the cultural heritage sector. A two-day seminar on preserving Jewish cemeteries and museum collections, organized by the ESJF together with the ... continue reading →... Read more

  Restoration of the facade and roof of the monumental Great Choral Synagogue in St. Petersburg has begun. Scaffolding began to go up in June, and work should be finished in 2027. The work will entail restoration of the synagogue’s ... continue reading →... Read more

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici   Polonia: in corso i lavori di restauro alla camera mortuaria del cimitero ebraico di Pszczyna 25 settembre 2025 Sono iniziati i lavori di restauro alla ... continue reading →... Read more

Work has begun on the renovation of the pre-burial house at the Jewish cemetery in Pszczyna. Built in 1888 and designed by the local builder Ernst Betz, the low, red brick building with an arched entrance between round windows, is ... continue reading →... Read more