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Jewish Heritage Europe
Sunday 5th May 2024

Lithuania: After a 2-year break, archaeologists return to the excavations of the Vilna Great Synagogue this summer, and welcome volunteers

Montage of photos from the Vilna Synagogue excavations, from the 2024 season announcement

After a two-year break, a team of international archaeologists is returning this summer to continue excavations at the site of the Vilna Great Synagogue and Shulhoyf in Vilnius — and they are welcoming volunteers. The excavations will take place July ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Sunday 5th May 2024

JHE in italiano: sommario settimanale

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici Germania: gli archeologi iniziano gli scavi presso il sito della sinagoga distrutta di Fulda, come parte dei piani per creare un memoriale permanente 2 maggio ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Thursday 2nd May 2024

Germany: Archaeologists begin excavating the site of the destroyed synagogue in Fulda, as part of plans to create a permanent memorial

Archaeological work begins at the site of the Fulda synagogue. Photo © City of Fulda

Archaeologists are exploring the site of the synagogue in Fulda, in central Germany, which was torched on Kristallnacht, November 1938, and razed a few months later. The work is taking place within the context of plans to redesign and upgrade ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Wednesday 1st May 2024

Jewish Cemetery Clean-ups — Our first round-up of initiatives for 2024

A worker at the Kozma utca Jewish cemetery, Budapest

Every year on Jewish Heritage Europe, we post round-ups of initiatives and projects aimed at restoring and cleaning up Jewish cemeteries all over Europe. We feel it so important to highlight these initiatives, which are often overlooked or ignored. Most ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Sunday 28th April 2024

UK Update: Substantial funding is committed toward a feasibility study of the historic Middle St. Synagogue in Brighton

Middle St. synagogue, Brighton. Photo: Foundation for Jewish Heritage

Three heritage funding bodies will contribute a total of £40,000 to support a Feasibility Study by the Foundation for Jewish Heritage (FJH) aimed at identifying a viable future use for the historic Middle Street Synagogue in Brighton. The National Lottery ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Sunday 28th April 2024

JHE in italiano: sommario settimanale

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici Continuiamo a celebrare Pessach con la matzah e macchine per la sua creazione! 26 aprile 2024 Il Seder di Pessach è finito, ma fino alla ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Friday 26th April 2024

Matzo! Matzo! Matzo! …as Pesach continues

Making matzo in Pitigliano. Historic photo at the oven, in the Jewish museum in the synagogue complex

The Passover seder is over, but we are still eating matzo… Here are a few images of matzo making equipment — machines and ovens — in several historic synagogues. We have posted some of them before, but it’s alway fun ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Thursday 25th April 2024

Hungary: Three-day festival this weekend closes exhibition celebrating the 150th birthday of noted Hungarian Jewish architect Béla Lajta

If you are in Budapest, don’t miss the closing days of an exhibition that celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Jewish architect Béla Lajta. The exhibit, which has run since December 20 at the Kiscelli Museum, ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Sunday 21st April 2024

Passover greetings from JHE — with historic (and modern) Haggadot

Seder plate in the town museum, Memmingen, Germany

Heartfelt greetings from JHE for a meaningful Pesach! The Seder meal, with its symbolic foods arranged on a special plate, is guided by the Haggadah, whose wealth of ancient texts and songs retell the story of the Biblical Exodus from ...

Jewish Heritage Europe
Sunday 21st April 2024

JHE in italiano: sommario settimanale

Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici Polonia: in occasione dell’81º anniversario dell’inizio dell’insurrezione del Ghetto di Varsavia, proponiamo monumenti che la ricordano 19 aprile 2024 Il 19 aprile si è celebrato ...

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