Communication

Jewish Heritage Europe
Thursday 27th November 2025

UK: Bletchley Park, the site of the top secret World War II operation to decrypt the Nazi Enigma cyphers, was once what is known as a Jewish Country House — take a look

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 ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Thursday 27th November 2025

JHE Encore Post: Happy Thanksgiving to our American readers!

Turkey in the replica painted ceiling of the Gwozdziec synagogue, now in the POLIN museum, Warsaw

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 ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Monday 24th November 2025

Poland: The former synagogue in Poznan is for sale for c. €8.2 million. A protected monument, it can be converted to a hotel or apartment but must allocate space for a Jewish history museum

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 ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Monday 24th November 2025

The JHE monthly Newsletter for November is out — catch up with what you might have missed!

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 ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Sunday 23rd November 2025

JHE in italiano: sommario settimanale

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 ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Wednesday 19th November 2025

Poland-Slovakia: Work to go ahead of EU-funded project to restore the synagogues in Czarny Dunajec, Poland and Trstená, Slovakia, after a tense vote by the Czary Dunajec municipal council

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 ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Wednesday 19th November 2025

Austria: Mazel tov to Irene Aue-Ben-David, who has been named the new director of the Jewish Museum Hohenems.

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 ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Tuesday 18th November 2025

Call for Applications: Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe’s Academic Jewish Studies grants starting in September 2026. The deadline for applications is 13 January 2026 at 5pm GMT

The Tullia Zevi National Library of Italian Judaism in Rome

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 ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Sunday 16th November 2025

JHE in italiano: Sommario settimanale

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 ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Wednesday 12th November 2025

New Have Your Say: Zine creation as a form of heritage preservation, by Bence Illyés

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 ...

Subscribe to our mailing list

* All fields are required

What newsletters are you interested in?

General
European Days of Jewish Culture
Cultural Routes of Jewish Heritage

Here at AEPJ we take your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information to administer your account and to solely provide our newsletter, as requested from us. In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council (27.04.2016) on the protection of private persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data), you may exercise your right to access, rectify, cancel or oppose your data through MailChimp's own systems, by email (communication@jewisheritage.org) or by post. AEPJ subscription services are provided using MailChimp distribution services; therefore, by subscribing you are also deemed to have accepted this company's privacy policy.