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A mass survey of hundreds of Jewish cemeteries in Central and Eastern Europe found that almost half of the sites in the region are in a state of severe neglect. In the survey of sites undertaken between 2019 and 2021 by the ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative funded by the European Commission, 1,700 Jewish cemeteries […]

The ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative is seeking part-time Survey Data Editors to ensure the accuracy of our cemetery database entries. These are remote positions with flexible hours and a fluctuating workload. By summer 2021, the ESJF will complete surveying 1,700 Jewish cemetery sites within the framework of its second EU-funded pilot project “Protecting the […]

ESJF are pleased to announce that last week we wrapped up our surveys in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine, during which we were able to visit 88 sites. Now, our teams are making progress on cemeteries in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and yesterday, they sent us these photos from the Pavlohrad Jewish cemetery. There are records […]

It is the second and final day of the ESJF’s teacher training seminar in Kaunas, Lithuania: “Teaching Jewish heritage in your class. Using Jewish cemeteries in education”. The seminar, run in partnership with Centropa, has brought educators from across Lithuania together to learn about teaching Jewish heritage in a meaningful, engaging way. Yesterday, attendees took […]

Today is the second day of our two-day teacher training event at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, “Teaching Jewish heritage in your class. Using Jewish cemeteries in education”, run in conjunction with our partners at Centropa. The event is off to a good start – yesterday, attendees took part in a number of activities, […]

ESJF, Centropa, and the Foundation for Jewish Heritage are pleased to announce an invitation to tender for a key part of our EU-funded Pilot Project, Protecting the Jewish Cemeteries of Europe: A Continuation of the Mapping Process. The pilot will involve detailed ground and drone surveys of 1,700 Jewish cemeteries across seven countries (Croatia, Georgia, […]

ESJF are pleased to announce that work has come to an end on our first EU-funded Pilot Project: Protecting Jewish Cemeteries: A full mapping process with research and monitoring and individual costed proposals for protection. The project, which began in December 2018, was set up with the goal of performing ground and drone surveys of […]

ESJF is pleased to announce the completion of its educational outreach programme in Greece, with the conclusion of our technical course on the applications of 3D modelling and drone technology in Jewish cemetery preservation, which ran from April 15th and comes to a close today. Aimed at architecture and engineering students, the course was comprised […]

The final event of ESJF’s EU-funded educational programme in Lithuania took place today. The teacher training webinar, which drew attendance from 22 educators across the country, covered Jewish life in Lithuania prior to the Second World War, the preservation of Jewish cemeteries in the country, and Lithuanian synagogues, ending with a questions and answers session […]

ESJF continues to find success rolling out its educational programme online. An ESJF teacher training event was originally scheduled to take place in Chișinău on the 13th of March 2020. However, on March 10th, ESJF received word from Julia Sheinman, Director of the Jewish Community of the Republic of Moldova, informing us that the event […]