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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
I’m being filmed as part of a documentary on the ancient Jewish cemetery in Venice, Italy — accompanying the cemetery director/caretaker/historian Aldo Izzo on a guided tour of the site.
presentation on a panel at the conference:
For the Spring Semester 2015 (January-May) I have been named the Distinguished Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
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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