Jewish Heritage Europe January Newsletter

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Newsletter : : January 2019

a summary of the past month's JHE news, views, and insights

A "Have Your Say" essay by Marcin Wodziński -- winner of the National Jewish Book Award

Prof. Marcin Wodziński won a 2018 National Jewish Book Award for his volume Historical Atlas of Hasidism. In a personal essay for JHE, he describes how he was drawn to study Hasidism and explains how his book “atlasses” the rich material heritage of the Hasidic movement, physically, geographically, and spiritually, through maps and other in-depth exploration.

Click here to read his essay.

Looking back at 2018: A milestone year for JHE

Over the year, we posted nearly 200 news items and other articles, covering a wide range of issues and places. We also totally changed our look and introduced new features and functionality.

Click here to read more -- and see the three dozen articles most shared from our web site.

JHE NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

This month: Synagogue restoration; cemetery issues; photo essay; heritage surveys, and more

Lithuania: Stairs of a Vilnius church made from Jewish gravestones are finally dismantled

New memorials in Tallinn, Estonia, and Gdansk, Poland commemorate destroyed synagogues by showing what they looked like

Former CEO of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland (FODZ) elected the first woman to lead Poland's main umbrella Jewish organization

Slovakia: With new official brochure, Jewish Heritage is now fully integrated into Bratislava’s official tourism and cultural promotion

Jewish gravestones as paving...in fashionable downtown Prague

Israeli-Slovenian project set to survey, digitize Jewish heritage in Slovenia

Will build on earlier work carried out by JHE Director Ruth Ellen Gruber and others

JHE Photo Essays:

-- Trees and Fruit for Tu B'Shevat

-- For Holocaust Remembrance Day: Memorials that name names

Czech Republic: Restoration of synagogue in Čáslav may finally be completed

ESJF gets €800,000 EU grants to map and survey 1,500 Jewish cemeteries

In five countries: Greece, Moldova, Slovakia, Lithuania and Ukraine

Romania: City demolishes ornamental gateway to Jewish cemetery in Iaşi, but plans to rebuild it closer to the cemetery

JEWISH HERITAGE EUROPE, a project of the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe, is an expanding web portal to news, information and resources concerning Jewish monuments and heritage sites all over Europe.

There's much more news on our web site -- click HERE to see our full News Feed

JHE's Director is Ruth Ellen Gruber, an award-winning writer who has worked on Jewish heritage for three decades.

Read more about her