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This week we had the pleasure to visit the German city of Erfurt, home of Via Regia, who hosted a new FabRoutes project partners meeting. Together with five other certified Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, ARGO and the Centre for Advanced Studies in Tourism of the University of Bologna we have worked intensively for two days on the planning of the next actions of the project, as well as on the communication strategy and the review of the contents that we have developed in cooperation so far.
In addition, we had the opportunity to visit the city and Via Regia, who are developing very original initiatives in relation to cultural heritage. In the framework of the visit, we also had the opportunity to see the impressive 11th century medieval synagogue and the mikveh of Erfurt.
Last week, the 4th Training for Trainers of the Creative Europe project, WalkEUR, was held in Faenza, Italy. In this city of Emilia-Romagna, it is located the headquarters of the European Route of Ceramics , who organized this week of training focused on the role of Marketing and Storytelling, as an essential part of the development of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe.
In this training program in Faenza, we participated together with two other cultural routes certified by the Council of Europe, the Atrium Route (Architecture of the Totalitarian Regimes), and the Cultural Route of Charles V. On behalf of the European Routes of Jewish Heritage, we counted on Tiziana Rubin and Michela Zanon as representative of CoopCulture; on Nesim Benjoya, route manager of the Izmir Route of Jewish Heritage coordinated by Izmir Jewish Heritage; on Yana Krichfalushii, route manager of the Ukrainian Route of Jewish Heritage coordinated by Heritage Springs; and on Michael Schreiber, route manager of the Jewish Heritage Route in Burgenland coordinated by the Research Society Burgenland; in addition to Víctor Sorenssen, AEPJ Director and Federico Szarfer as project manager.
Last week, the 3rd Training for Trainers of the Creative Europe project, WalkEUR, was held in Jarandilla de la Vera, Spain. In this city of Extremadura, it is located the headquarters of the Cultural Route of Charles V, who organized this week of training focused on the role of Citizen Involvement, as an essential part of the development of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe.
In this training program in Jarandilla de la Vera, we participated together with two other cultural routes certified by the Council of Europe, the Atrium Route (Architecture of the Totalitarian Regimes), and the European Route of Ceramics. On behalf of the European Routes of Jewish Heritage, in addition to Federico Szarfer as project manager, we counted on Nesi Kupreishvili as representative of the Jewish Heritage Cultural Routes in Georgia, promoted by the Israeli House and on Michelle Nahum Sembira, coordinator of the Mi Dor Le Dor Italia project.
During the Italian Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (November 2021 – May 2022), an international conference on “Cultural Routes of Council of Europe crossing Italy: a European heritage” was held in Venice on 18 February in the Aula Magna of the Ateneo Veneto. Annie Sacerdoti, representing the AEPJ, explained the importance of the European Routes of Jewish Heritage project, highlighting the particular richness of the Italian one, with significant cultural peculiarity, scattered throughout the peninsula. She also underlined the involvement of the AEPJ in Italy with the Mi Dor Le Dor project and the importance of the Incubator in the creation of new itineraries. Claudia De Benedetti, director of the Jewish Museum of Casale Monferrato, concluded her speech concerning AEPJ with an overview of the Jewish museums in Italy.
The Phoenicians’ Route and the European Routes of Jewish Heritage, two historical Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, signed a Collaboration Agreement aiming at safeguarding and promoting the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of Euro-Mediterranean history, in order to launch joint activities and strategies for cultural and tourism enhancement favoring their respective territories.
On the 8th of February 2022 the two Cultural Routes certified by the Council of Europe The Phoenicians’ Route and the European Routes of Jewish Heritage signed a relevant collaboration agreement, with the aim of promoting and disseminating the tangible and intangible cultural heritage connected to products, places, traditions, civilizations at the basis of European values.
The agreement aims at promoting opportunities exchanges between these two Cultural Routes that share the same methodologies, stimulating a new co-planning and collaboration in terms of analysis, creation of tourist products, as well as actions to enhance the territories, promotion of sustainable, creative and experiential tourism, both linked to local communities.
Frescoes project for Dampierre Ramerupt and Lhuitre, North Aube, France
By The Communauté de Communes Arcis Mailly Ramerupt
In the framework of the actions of the Medieval Route of Rashi in Champagne carried by the Aube Tourisme Agency
By Delphine Yague. A touristic and artistic circuit project through villages of Aube around frescoes is being planned for 2022-2024. It is thought as a new cultural action to tell the history of former Jewish communities of Champagne.
This project is led by Communauté de Communes Arcis-Mailly-Ramerupt (a group of Municipalities situed in north Aube) in partnership with the Aube Tourism Agency, the Association Les Passeurs de Fresques and the inhabitants.
It emerged in the frame of the animation of the Medieval Route of Rashi in Champagne for the Aube Tourism Agency which carries the Route.
AEPJ presents its work to Mr. Bjorn Berge, the new Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe
At the invitation of Ambassador Mr. Patrick Engelberg, the head of the Luxembourg Permanent Representation to the Council of Europe, a lunch took place in Strasbourg with Mr. Bjorn Berge, the new Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe and two senior staff members. Together with Mrs. Claude Bloch, Honorary president of AEPJ, president François Moyse was able to outline to Mr. Berge the considerable work that AEPJ has done during 20 years and how important the topic of Jewish heritage is, in order to get citizens and communities to know and respect each other better in these tensed times.
The successful lunch will be follow-up both with the Luxembourg authorities and the Council of Europe.
Every year around 27 January, we pay tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and reaffirm our unwavering commitment to counter antisemitism, racism, and other forms of intolerance that may lead to group-targeted violence. The date marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945.
In 2022, the theme guiding the United Nations Holocaust remembrance and education is “Memory, Dignity and Justice”. Holocaust commemoration and education is a global imperative in the third decade of the 21st century.
The members of the European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage (AEPJ) understand this day as paramount for the preservation of Jewish life in Europe and as an exercise of Remembrance, Dignity and Justice for a more pluralistic, inclusive and diverse Europe.
The Red de Juderías de España (Network of Spanish Jewish Quarters), AEPJ member since 2004, continues in 2022 with its firm commitment to the international promotion of the Jewish legacy of the cities of the Association. Within this line of action, presented at its recent General Assembly held in December in León, is the international itinerancy of “Discover Sepharad“, the photographic exhibition that has already visited several international capitals and that lands in Warsaw next January 25th.
The exhibition, composed by 23 images that capture the soul of the Jewish quarters of the different cities that make up the Network, accompanied by a text that highlights the Jewish essence of each one of them, is an activity co-organised by the Cervantes Institute and the Red de Juderías de España – Caminos de Sefarad, and the Spanish Tourist Office in Poland.