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Professionals from Moldovan museums and the cultural heritage sector! We invite you to take part in a two-day seminar on preserving Jewish cemeteries and museum collections, organized by the ESJF together with the Jewish Community of Moldova and partners. The seminar will be held in Bălți, Moldova, on 5-6 November 2025. In the seminar, participants […]

Educators in Moldova! Join us for the year’s final educational seminar on Jewish cemeteries, open to people from all over the country! The two-day program includes a mix of activities: a series of lectures, a workshop on reading and translating epitaphs on the matzevot, and a tour of the Jewish cemetery. This seminar is specifically […]

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, […]

Moldova has no centralised curriculum that includes Jewish history. As such, educational activities are needed to introduce the subject itself. This means that teacher training is an especially crucial element of the ESJF’s educational work in Moldova: sustainability hinges on convincing teachers to broaden the scope of their work without being required to do so […]