{"id":1107,"date":"2017-02-19T16:52:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T15:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruthellengruber.com\/blog\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2017-02-19T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T15:53:00","slug":"i-reflect-in-an-interview-on-jewish-heritage-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruthellengruber.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/19\/i-reflect-in-an-interview-on-jewish-heritage-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"In an interview, I reflect on Jewish Heritage Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Me in front of the ruined Great Synagogue in Kalvarija, Lithuania — the town my great-grandparents came from. Photo: Samuel D. Gruber<\/p><\/div>\n

February 2017 marks the fifth anniversary that www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu<\/a> — the web site that I run as a project of the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe — has been online.<\/p>\n

In a lengthy interview with Liam Hoare of eJewish Philanthropy<\/a>, I reflect on developments since I’ve been involved with Jewish heritage work — where we’ve been, and where we may be going.<\/p>\n

By Liam Hoare
\neJewish Philanthropy<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Since its launch five years ago,<\/span> Jewish Heritage Europe<\/a> has become an essential one-stop shop for news, information, and resources concerning, as the name indeed suggests, matters of Jewish culture and built heritage in Europe: museums; synagogues; cemeteries, and so on. <\/span>Ruth Ellen Gruber, the author of Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe<\/em> who has chronicled Jewish life in Europe for over twenty-five years for the JTA<\/em> among other places, edits the site, which is supported by the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe. Here, I talk with Gruber about the site<\/p>\n

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