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Turkey: Major online resource launched — vast database of Jewish cemeteries...
This is major — a vast Digitized Database of Turkish Jewish Cemeteries has just been launched online and made available to the public by the Goldstein Goren Diaspora Research Center at Tel Aviv...
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Celebrating (and Accessing) Jewish Archives, Collections, Libraries: In...
JHE primarily deals with Jewish built heritage — but also with the variety of issues linked to and concerning it, from museums and exhibits to tourism. Today, we celebrate Jewish Archives, Libraries,...
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Kristallacht: On the 82nd anniversary, we highlight 3D virtual...
(JHE) — The night of November 9-10 marks the 82nd anniversary of Reichspogrom night — the so-called Kristallnacht pogrom — in 1938, when the Nazis launched coordinated violent attacks on Jews, Jewish...
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Poland: Galicia Jewish Museum mobile app showcases Photographs from Jewish...
(JHE) — Krakow’s Galicia Jewish Museum has launched a mobile app that uses historic and contemporary photographs to tell the story of Polish Jews and their environments from the late 19th century to...
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Germany: Three-year project underway to document all Jewish cemeteries in...
(JHE) — An ambitious three-year project is under way to document all the Jewish cemeteries in Bavaria, with a priority on the weathered or fast-eroding inscriptions. The project was launched in late...
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UK: Detailed laser scan carried out of the former synagogue in Merthyr...
A comprehensive laser scan of the 19th century former synagogue in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales has been carried out, as a major step in the ongoing long-term project to restore the site and create a Welsh...
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Poland: Two new virtual tours of note — the gorgeously decorated synagogue in...
Summer is approaching, and thanks to the vaccine rollout, travel restrictions in Europe are, in many places, being eased — at least somewhat. It’s clear, though, that virtual tours and online...
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Romania: a new Jewish Timisoara virtual museum is launched
A new (and evolving) online museum aims to provide a multi-layered picture of the Jewish history and heritage of Timisoara, Romania, as well as of today’s Jewish life in the city. The virtual museum...
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Poland: App launched to help volunteers (including tourists) document...
Poland’s Cultural Heritage Foundation, in cooperation with technology company Laboratorium EE, has launched an app aimed at encouraging (and enabling) the volunteer documentation of abandoned,...
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Poland: Marking Jewish cemeteries with QR codes
The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the National Institute of Cultural Heritage are in the process of unveiling markers with QR codes at five Jewish cemeteries in Poland. So far,...
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