The 13th Annual JGB expedition worked at the one of the oldest Jewish cemetery in Bukovina.
This site lets you:
- 1Discover the rich cultural heritage of the Jewish communities of Galicia and Bukovina through documents, photos, biographies of notable people, a broad bibliography and more.
- 2Explore your family's roots from Galicia and Bukovina.
- 3Learn about our on-going activities and projects.

























































News and Events
Book release: 11/05/2023, 17:00 National Library of Israel
The monumental bibliography project undertaken by the Jewish Galicia and Bukovina Organization is available on our site now. This project unprecedented in its scope involves about 17,000 searchable annotated records of essays, books, pamphlets, and articles in some ten languages, which relate, in whole or in part, to the Jews of Galicia and Bukovina.
The new Jewish cemetery in Siret is an outstanding monument of Jewish art of the 19th century. The carved grave steles preserved on it are unparalleled in Eastern Europe both in terms of the richness of the images and ornaments presented and in terms of the artistic level of stone carving.
International Conference on distinguished Israeli Poet, translator, painter and Sculptor Manfred Winkler.
This year our organization turned to document the Jewish cemeteries in south Bukovina in Romania. The 12th annual expedition of JGB documented two Jewish cemeteries in Siret.
The Jewish Galicia and Bukovina Organization, in collaboration with the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, held an international conference addressing various aspects of the Galician historical experience and the cultural heritage of Galicia and Bukovina.
A new book by prof. Omer Bartov (Brown University).
Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2022
A new volume of articles on the Jewish Enlightenment movement in Galicia
Edited by: Nathan Shifriss, Shmuel Finer, Chanan Gafni. Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 2022
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"Sign of Life" - Exploring the Jewish Heritage of Galicia