Calendar

Jun
30
Mon
Talk at Galicia Jewish Museum @ Galicia Jewish Museum
Jun 30 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

 

Ruth gives a talk, part of events marking the 10th anniversary of the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow.

Jul
28
Mon
Using jewish-heritage-europe.eu @ IAJGS conference
Jul 28 @ 8:30 am – 10:15 am

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

Jul
30
Wed
Jewish Heritage Travel in Eastern Europe @ IAJGS conference
Jul 30 @ 2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

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

Dec
3
Wed
Lecture on Jewish museums in Europe under communism @ IMT (Institute for Advanced Studies)
Dec 3 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Dec
11
Thu
Jewish. Jewish! “Jewish” Jewish? New Definitions, New Authenticities in Jewish Europe @ Jewish Museum Berlin
Dec 11 @ 2:30 pm – 4:15 pm

 

presentation on a panel at the conference:

Feb
23
Thu
Jewish contribution to the urban development of European cities @ FUGA Architects Center Budapest
Feb 23 all-day

A one-day international conference organized by the Ovas! NGO that promotes preservation of buildings in downtown Budapest

Feb
28
Tue
Life after Life: Virtually Jewish 15 Years on @ Parkes Institute, Southampton University
Feb 28 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

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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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Mar
6
Mon
The past and present of Jewish Heritage Travel @ Clarendon Institute
Mar 6 @ 7:15 pm – 9:00 pm
1994 Documenting cemetery

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

 

Apr
26
Wed
From Shtetl to City @ S.W. Ripley Center
Apr 26 @ 6:45 pm – 8:45 pm

 

I give a talk about Jewish heritage sites and travel, as part of the Smithsonian Associates program.

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Jul
27
Thu
Jewish Heritage Travel – 25 years on @ Ratusha restaurant
Jul 27 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

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.