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Throughout 2025, the ESJF is expanding its operations in Serbia, already fencing several Jewish cemeteries and conducting surveys across the country. The Jewish cemetery in Zmajevo — where we have just installed a new metal fence — preserves more than a dozen tombstones and fragments, the oldest dating back to 1863. The fencing project at […]

The session was conducted by Esther Zyskina, a renowned expert on Jewish cemeteries and Hebrew epigraphy. The camp is currently underway at the Jewish cemetery in Alba Iulia, running from July 21 to 30, 2025. ESJF manuals were also sent to the participants to assist them in further exploring the cemetery. Organized annually by the […]

Surveys are currently ongoing across the country, led by ESJF Senior Surveyor Ian Galevskii and our country coordinator, Ladislav Trajer (Federation of Jewish Communities in Serbia). Where permitted, drones are being used to conduct the surveys. Among the cemeteries we’ve already documented is the unique Sephardic cemetery in Šabac. According to Ladislav Trajer, one of […]

The new metal fence now protects the cemetery from potential threats and stands as a lasting reminder that the memory of the town’s once-thriving Jewish community endures. This fencing project was made possible with the help of our partners at Židia na Slovensku (Federation of Jewish Communities in Slovakia), particularly Henrich Stern, our national coordinator. […]

Several years ago, Yana, a student at Shatava Lyceum in Ukraine, wrote a paper for the Junior Academy of Sciences focusing on the Jewish cemetery in her village. During her thesis defense, Yana was asked whether she could read the epitaphs on the tombstones — at the time, she could not. This week, Yana attended […]

The ESJF workshop took place at the Shatava Jewish cemetery, which we had previously fenced and where an informational sign was installed. Local teachers and students were shown how to interpret the symbols on ancient matzevot and taught how to calculate dates of death. ESJF manuals were shared to assist them in further exploring the […]

This year, the ESJF intends to complete several fencing projects in the Vojvodina region in northern Serbia. In July, we finished work at the Kać Jewish cemetery, where around 10 tombstones remain preserved. The oldest dates back to 1882, and the most recent to 1929. In addition to fencing, the ESJF is currently conducting surveys […]

ESJF Chief Executive Officer Philip Carmel received the Award for Contributions to Hungarian Jewry from Professor Dr. Andor Grósz, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Hungary. “I accepted this award as recognition for all that our devoted team in Ukraine and in Hungary has achieved in the preservation of Hungarian Jewish heritage and […]

Fresh from the completion of our national report on the cemeteries in Slovakia after surveying 745 sites in that country, the ESJF has now moved on to Serbia. Thank you so much, Ladislav Trajer, for compiling the list of cemeteries in Serbia, including, we understand, a few dozen which had previously not featured on any […]

Last week, a ceremony of rededication was held at the Jewish cemetery in Csákvár in Hungary to mark the completion of the fencing of this site by the ESJF in cooperation with our partners MAZSIHISZ-Magyarországi Zsidó Hitközségek Szövetsége, the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities and with the generous financial support of the Auswärtiges Amt Foreign […]

As fencing work continues at the Skala-Podilska Jewish cemetery, we’re sharing drone images taken a few years ago to show the vast scale of this historic burial site in Ukraine. The oldest tombstone at the Skala-Podilska Jewish cemetery dates back to 1581, with more than 130 matzevot still standing. The remnants of many others, which […]

ESJF and Slovak Jewish community carrying out cleaning work at several Jewish cemeteries. As part of our regular maintenance efforts alongside our local partners, UZZNO, the Federation of Jewish Communities in Slovakia (Židia na Slovensku), the burial sites in Veľký Šariš, Cerová, Hurbanovo, Pribeta, and Kuchyňa have undergone cleaning work. The Jewish cemeteries in these […]