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Jewish Heritage Europe
Monday 2nd February 2026

UK: A century-old synagogue in London’s East End is to be sold at auction on Feb. 12. It is the East End’s only surviving purpose-built synagogue

A century-old synagogue in London’s East End will go up for auction on February 12, with a guide price of more than £2 million. The East London Central Synagogue, also known as Nelson Street Synagogue, was founded in 1923. It ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Monday 2nd February 2026

JHE Photo Essay for Tu B’Shevat 2026: Trees and fruit in Jewish decorative art; in synagogues, on gravestones, and as part of ritual objects

It’s Tu B’Shevat — the 15th of the Hebrew month of Shevat, known as “the New Year for Trees:” the time of year when the earliest-blooming trees in the land of Israel start to flower. It is the custom to reflect on our ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Sunday 1st February 2026

JHE in italiano: Sommario settimanale

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici Slovacchia: a Bardejov è in fase di realizzazione un Museo della Cultura Ebraica. Gli organizzatori stanno contattando residenti e discendenti per raccogliere oggetti da includere. ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Thursday 29th January 2026

Slovakia: A Museum of Jewish Culture is being developed in Bardejov. Organizers are reaching out to residents and descendants for objects to include. It will be located in the recently restored Beit Midrash in the historic Jewish quarter — the Jewish Suburbium.

A Museum of Jewish Culture is being developed in Bardejov, in eastern Slovakia. It will be located in the recently restored beit midrash — one of the components of the historic Jewish quarter — the Jewish Suburbium, which together with ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Tuesday 27th January 2026

International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026: Naming names and highlighting the growing Holocaust Memorial Monuments Database

Pinkas synagogue, Prague. Names of the more than 77,000 Holocaust victims from Bohemia and Moravia

January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945, is marked in many countries as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is an occasion for commemorative ceremonies, educational programs, and other initiatives. Monuments and memorials are also dedicated or ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Monday 26th January 2026

Hungary: Róbert Turán, a playwright and former director of the Hungarian Jewish Museum, dies

We are saddened by the death of Róbert Ben Turán, who served as the director of the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives in Budapest for 15 years, from 1993 to 2008. His death, at the age of 80, was announced ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Monday 26th January 2026

Czech Republic: Archaeologists will research the site of Brno’s destroyed Great Synagogue as part of a series of commemorative initiatives

Archaeological excavation is due to begin in March on the site of Brno’s destroyed Great Synagogue, as part of a series of initiatives commemorating the synagogue, which was built in 1853-1855 and torched by the Nazis in March 1939.. “The ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Sunday 25th January 2026

JHE in italiano: Sommario settimanale

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici Polonia: è in corso un progetto per preservare, proteggere ed esporre l’unico mikveh in legno scoperto a Oświęcim. L’opera entrerà a far parte del crescente ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Thursday 22nd January 2026

Poland: There’s a project to preserve, protect, and display the unique wooden mikvah discovered in Oświęcim, the town where the Nazis built the Auschwitz camp. It will form part of the town’s growing commemorative framework.

The Castle Museum in Oświęcim has embarked on a project to preserve, protect, and display the unique wooden mikvah discovered in the town in 2023. As we posted at the time, the mikvah, believed to be a unique example of ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Tuesday 20th January 2026

Hungary: Rare ceramic tombstones from the historic Jewish cemetery in Tata are undergoing restoration, part of the ongoing restoration, maintenance and documentation of the cemetery

Rare ceramic tombstones are undergoing restoration as part of a general ongoing project to restore. maintain, and document the historic Jewish cemetery in Tata. Three ceramic grave markers belonging to Áron Mózes Fischer (1796-1861) and members of his family were ...

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