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Over the past two days, the ESJF’s consortium partner Centropa hosted a seminar for Georgian teachers in Tbilisi! The seminar is one of 7 seminars within our new EU grant, which is funded by the European Commission. Centropa were excited to meet engaged Georgian teachers, who participated in our previous EU grant online. Thanks to […]

Last month, as part of our new EU project, our consortium partners travelled to Bologna and Ferrara in Italy to take part in the EuroClio – European Association of History Educators conference! During the conference, Foundation for Jewish Heritage and Centropa met with teachers from across Europe to discuss the topic of Jewish cemeteries in […]

The final report from our project, Protecting Jewish Cemeteries: Continuation of the mapping process, stakeholders’ involvement and awareness-raising, is now available. This report was made under funding from the European Commission. Building on our first pilot project, the ESJF and its consortium partners Centropa and Foundation for Jewish Heritage developed a comprehensive survey that mapped, […]

Today ESJF Project Manager, Klara Vlahčević Lisinski, and Public Sector Liaise Ambassador, Nata Yeromenko, had a kick-off online-meeting with our long term partner Piotr Puchta from Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland – FODŻ to discuss potential collaboration on the establishment of a regional cemetery association in Poland under our new European […]

This week the ESJF’s Legal Research Officer had a successful meeting with Mária Baranya and Tamás Péter from the Association of Jewish Communities in Hungary, MAZSIHISZ-Magyarországi Zsidó Hitközségek Szövetsége, on the status of abandoned Hungarian Jewish cemeteries. The possibility of fencing burial sites which MAZSIHISZ supported the ESJF to survey under the previous European Commission […]

Yesterday within the framework of our new European Commission grant, the ESJF’s Legal Research Officer met with Dr. Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Instytut Nauk Prawnych PAN) and legal expert in anti-discrimination law, freedom of speech and memory laws and Avraham Yishai, Head of […]

Did you know that tombstone dating can provide evidence for the period that a Jewish community existed? Traditional Jewish headstones indicate the date of death using the Hebrew alphabet. The period of time that the cemetery was used by the Jewish community can also be established from these dates. The oldest tombstone is sometimes the […]

What can Jewish cemeteries teach us about the Jewish communities of the past and their history? By looking at tombstones and the size of Jewish cemeteries, we can gather evidence indicative of the demography of the Jewish communities that once lived in the surrounding area. If the cemetery is well preserved, one can notice traces […]

As part of our newly launched EU project, the ESJF met on Wednesday with the President of the Páva street Synagogue and the legal representative of the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (MAZSIHISZ-Magyarországi Zsidó Hitközségek Szövetsége), Dr. Gádor György, to gather information on the legal ownership of the Hungarian Jewish cemeteries. The meeting took place […]

First concrete action of EU’s Strategy for Combatting Antisemitism and Fostering Jewish Life The European Union has launched a new project in efforts to protect Jewish cemeteries in Central and Eastern Europe. The project involves a new preparatory action undertaken by a consortium led by the ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative together with the foundation […]