2nd International Workshop on Jewish Heritage, 2019 ‘Museums and their Communities’ Jewish Museum London, Monday and Tuesday, 24-25 June 2019 The 2nd International Workshop on Jewish Heritage organised by the Parkes Institute is following on from the 2016 workshop themed around ‘Jewish Heritage and Its Communities’. The workshop brought together academics, museum staff and grassroots activists from all over Europe. Excellent presentations covered a wide range of topics, from Judaica collecting in St Petersburg to audience expectations at the Galicia Jewish Museum in… | Read more »

The University of Amsterdam and the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe are now accepting applications to attend an intensive JEWISH HERITAGE SEMINAR for junior professionals and graduate students in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 12-20 June 2019 The intensive seminar will combine academic presentations, hands-on workshops, case studies, and site visits with top experts working in museums, archives, libraries, and research universities. The seminar will address the following topics: synagogue architecture, Judaica collections, Jewish books and manuscripts, archival material, cemeteries, documenting the Shoah, and will… | Read more »

The Sarajevo Haggadah, one of the most important exhibits from the treasury of material and immaterial heritage kept in the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is now available in a new facsimile edition, followed by a large and detailed scientific study. The Sarajevo Haggadah’s new edition has been prepared over the course of two years by the expert team of the National Museum, together with its external associates, in cooperation with the UNESCO office in Sarajevo, and the rich… | Read more »

The Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe welcomes applications for the Spring grant round in all of its  grants programmes:   Archives and Libraries Grants Programme is open for applications Repositories across the breadth of Europe tell the story of the Jewish presence on this continent, from the Medieval period all the way up to the present day. Often fragmentary, at times fragile and generally underused, these records are some of the last surviving links between historic communities and the contemporary researchers… | Read more »

The Advisory Visits Grant Programme (AVGP) is developed to assist AEJM members in need of consultancy by museum experts. The AVGP offers small grants to support member museums in need of consultancy on specific key-issues for Jewish museums. By this means, the AEJM is able to provide its member institutions with expert advice and in house-training through the support of visits by museum experts to its grantees. Below a short report on the three advisory visits that took place in 2018: Jewish Cultural… | Read more »