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Jewish Heritage Europe
Wednesday 17th December 2025

France: A fundraising campaign is launched to restore the former synagogue in Hégenheim as an arts center. The synagogue has not been used for worship in more than a century

In collaboration with France’s Heritage Foundation, the owner and the association that operates the historic former synagogue in Hégenheim have launched a fundraising campaign to continue restoration of the building as an arts center. Donations will make it possible to ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Tuesday 16th December 2025

UK: Grants awarded for Brighton’s Middle Street Synagogue project and a project about Jewish history and the Moses Montefiore synagogue in Grimsby

Two projects aimed as preserving and valorizing Jewish history and heritage and in two seacoast cities — Brighton, on the English Channel and Grimsby, on the North Sea — have received National Lottery Heritage funded grants. One is the ongoing ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Monday 15th December 2025

Hanukkah 2025 — Celebrating the Festival of Light, with images of Light…May Light help us find our way, and peace and beauty prevail!

A Hanukkah menorah in the synagogue in Mondovi, Italy

We wish all our readers a Happy Hanukkah! In these difficult times, and in the wake of the horror in Sydney, the spirit of Light is needed even more than ever — so, as we’ve done in the past, we ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Sunday 14th December 2025

JHE in italiano: Sommario settimanale

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici Polonia: circa 2.500 frammenti di lapidi ebraiche, utilizzate dai nazisti per costruire ambienti sotterranei, sono stati recuperati da sotto un parcheggio a Janów Lubelski 11 dicembre ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Thursday 11th December 2025

Poland: Around 2,500 fragments of matzevot used by the Nazis to construct underground rooms have been recovered from beneath a parking lot in Janów Lubelski

This autumn, around 2,500 fragments of matzevot were extracted from beneath the parking lot of the City Hall in Janów Lubelski, a small town near Lublin in eastern Poland. The Nazi German occupiers had used them to build three underground ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Wednesday 10th December 2025

Poland: Janusz Makuch is stepping down as director of the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival. Taking over will be his longtime deputy, Robert Gądek

Janusz Makuch onstage during the final concert, Krakow Jewish Culture Festival, 2012

After 37 years, Janusz Makuch is stepping down as director of the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival. Taking over will be his longtime deputy, Robert Gądek. “Thirty-seven years after the creation of the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, I have decided ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Sunday 7th December 2025

JHE in Italiano: sommario settimanale

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici Repubblica Ceca: lavori di restauro nel Vecchio Cimitero Ebraico di Praga 5 dicembre 2025 Quest’anno, il Museo Ebraico di Praga ha realizzato lavori di restauro ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Friday 5th December 2025

Czech Republic: Restoration work in Prague’s Old Jewish Cemetery

Restoration work involving 23 gravestones in the historic Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague was carried out this year by the Prague Jewish Museum, as part of its ongoing work in the cemetery. The museum announced in a Facebook post that ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Thursday 4th December 2025

Poland: Mazel tov to architectural historian Dr. Eleonora Bergman who has received the 2025 Jan Zachwatowicz award, one of the most important honors in the field of cultural heritage protection in Poland.

Mazel tov to architectural historian Dr. Eleonora Bergman who has received the 2025 Jan Zachwatowicz award, one of the most important honors in the field of cultural heritage protection in Poland. The award is given for outstanding achievements in the ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Thursday 4th December 2025

Call for Applications: Dubnow Institute Visiting Research Fellowship Program (2026/27)

Scales of Justice on a gravestone in the Ashkenazi section of the Jewish cemetery in Hamburg Altona, Germany

We are pleased to share the Call for Applications for the Dubnow Institute Visiting Research Fellowship Program (2026/27). Application deadline: December 16, 2025 The Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow (DI) offers fellowships to external researchers ...

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