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Jewish Heritage Europe
Thursday 16th October 2025

Call for Papers: conference “Parallel Paths, Shared Past: Jewish History and Genealogy in Central Europe.” To be held May 4-6, 2026 in Vienna. Deadline for submissions is November 15.

We are pleased to share this Call for Papers for the international conference Parallel Paths, Shared Past: Jewish History and Genealogy in Central Europe, to be held May 4-6, 2026 at CEU’s Vienna Campus: Quellenstraße 51, 1100 Wien, Austria. Deadline ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Thursday 16th October 2025

Jewish Cemetery Clean-ups 2025 — Round-up #3. More than 80 initiatives in 14 countries. (We know we’ve missed some, so please add in the comments)

Volunteers clean the Jewish cemetery in Łódź, Poland, June 15, 2025

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 ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Sunday 12th October 2025

JHE in italiano: Sommario settimanale

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 ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Friday 10th October 2025

Call for Papers: 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 31, 2026

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 ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Thursday 9th October 2025

Jewish cemeteries: The ESJF publishes as online books its surveys of Jewish cemeteries in Poland and Slovakia.

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 ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Monday 6th October 2025

Poland: Sukkoth 2025 — Sukkahs and symbolism; with news of the Sukkah Project, conserving a historic sukkah from the town of Izbica

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 ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Sunday 5th October 2025

JHE in italiano: sommario settimanale

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 ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Wednesday 1st October 2025

Yom Kippur – Gmar Chatima Tova!

Zodiac by artist Lele Luzzati on the ceiling of the Tullia Zevi National Library of Italian Judaism in Rome

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

Jewish Heritage Europe
Tuesday 30th September 2025

Austria: Mazel tov to Johannes Reiss, honored by Austria’s Burgenland region for his longtime work at the Austrian Jewish Museum and commitment to preserving Jewish cultural heritage

Johannes Reiss in the Jewish cemetery, Kobersdorf, Austria

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 ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Tuesday 30th September 2025

Call for Participants in Moldova: ESJF seminar on preserving Jewish cemeteries and museum collections

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 ...

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