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The web site http:www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu is a growing online resource that aggregates links, runs a regular newsfeed, publishes long articles and features many other Jewish heritage resources for 48 European countries. A project of the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe, JHE aims to facilitate communication and information exchange regarding projects, initiatives and other developments concerning Jewish heritage and Jewish heritage sites: restoration, funding, ongoing projects, best-practices, advisory services, tourism, genealogy, & more. It also aims to foster contacts among Jewish communities, private individuals or bodies, foundations, state and civic organizations, monuments protection authorities and other stakeholders and interested parties. As JHE
As the author of National Geographic Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe, and the coordinator of the web site www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu, I conduct an illustrated virtual tour of far-flung synagogues, shtetls, Jewish cemeteries, and other Jewish heritage sites in a variety of countries in East-Central Europe. I describe personal experiences and discuss the many changes I have witnessed in a quarter century of exploration of Jewish heritage. These include efforts at reconstructing Jewish life, with new forms of Jewishness, Jewish practice, and religious and cultural expression. I describe how I coined the term
presentation on a panel at the conference:
A one-day international conference organized by the Ovas! NGO that promotes preservation of buildings in downtown Budapest
Lecture by Ruth Ellen Gruber at the Parkes Institute, Southampton University, to mark 15 years since the publication of “Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe.”
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Ruth documents the Jewish cemetery in Szydlowiec, Poland, in 1994
Ruth gives a David Patterson lecture for the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies on her more than a quarter century of following Jewish heritage and Jewish heritage travel developments
I give a talk about Jewish heritage sites and travel, as part of the Smithsonian Associates program.
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Visitors in the Kupa synagogue, Krakow
I give a talk looking back at the evolution of Jewish heritage travel since the publication of my book “Jewish Heritage Travel”, as the closing event of the “Jewish days at the Ratusha” program.
Ruth takes part in a conference she co-organized as director of Jewish Heritage Europe.
The challenges and opportunities posed by Jewish heritage tourism and travel in Europe are the focus of this three-day conference and raise many important issues both in places where there is an active local Jewish population and in places where there are sites of Jewish heritage but no organized Jewish community.
The conference will focus on issues that reflect the growing diversity and energy of Jewish and Jewish-themed tourism in Europe, both for Jews and for others. But it would also address both the specifics of Jewish heritage tourism and how it fits within heritage tourism/travel in general. Special emphasis will be given to the ways in which technology influences and possibly changes Jewish heritage tourism.
This conference is the latest in a series of international conferences on Jewish heritage and follows on from a number of major international conferences on Jewish built heritage issues that have taken place since 1990.
