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Over the past two days, it has been a great pleasure to host our second European Commission Masterclass and the first of the series to take place in person for local engaged leaders in Chișinău, Moldova. After an opening statement from Ion Duminica, Director of the Center for Ethnology of the Institute of Cultural Heritage, […]

The ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative is looking forward to hosting its second EU master class tomorrow on the topic of Jewish cemeteries in Moldovan Cultural Heritage, which will take place in Chișinău, Moldova over two days. This event is organised in cooperation with the Center for Ethnology of the Institute of Cultural Heritage, which […]

ESJF continues to find success rolling out its educational programme online. An ESJF teacher training event was originally scheduled to take place in Chișinău on the 13th of March 2020. However, on March 10th, ESJF received word from Julia Sheinman, Director of the Jewish Community of the Republic of Moldova, informing us that the event […]

The European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative (ESJF) visited the Lomonosov lyceeum in Orhei, Moldova today. Olga Sivak of the Itzik Manger Jewish library gave a guest lecture to the 11th and 12th grades. Students learned about the history of Orhei’s Jewish community (which dates all the way back to the 17th century), its historical events, people, […]

The video clip (in Russian with Romanian subtitles) ESJF’s work surveying 150 Jewish cemetery sites in the Republic of Moldova has been covered in a short documentary by journalist Eugenia Creţu for Radio Free Europe Moldova. The news item, titled “Salvarea de uitare” (“Saving from oblivion”), is part of the series “Pur și simplu” (“Simply”) […]

ESJF surveys in Moldova are progressing well and are on schedule for completion by mid-April. The surveys began on March 25th 2019 with the help of our national coordinators, Irina Shikhova and Julia Seinman, and support from the National Agency for Inspection and Restoration of Monuments as well as the Jewish Community of the Republic […]