Today was held in Madrid the first meeting of managers of Cultural Routes of Spain with the certification or in certification phase of the Council of Europe promoted by the Ministry of Culture and Sport of Spain and the European Institute of Cultural Routes. The program included presentations by the Cultural Routes with presence in Spain, as well as strategic actions to promote the routes in fields such as the extension of the routes in Ibero-America, the development of the network of Universities of Study of the Cultural Routes, or the synergies between the Unesco Conventions and the Cultural Routes.

The program was inaugurated by Isaac Sastre de Diego, Director General of Fine Arts; Stefano Dominioni, Executive Secretary of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe and Victor Francos Díaz, Secretary General of Culture and Sport.

We are pleased to inform you about the central theme of the next edition of the European Days of Jewish Culture 2022 festival, which will be: Renewal

The Festival will be held, as usual, starting on the first Sunday of September 2022, that is to say on the 4th of September, with the possibility of extending the activities during the following months until the end of the year, thus giving Coordinators the opportunity to adapt the activities to their particular situation.

More information and processes will be added to this page soon. For any questions or information please do not hesitate to contact us at edjc@jewisheritage.org.

The European Days of Jewish Culture 2022 Festival is in partnership with the National Library of Israel

About Renewal

A text developed by the National Library of Israel and the Task Force Group of the EDJC 2022.

Within the framework of the AEPJ General Assembly, held online, different institutions have presented their candidacy to become part of our European network.

In this sense, we are very pleased to inform that from January 2022, the AEPJ will be formed by a total of 29 institutions, one of them as an observer member.

The new institutions of the network are the following:

• Heritage Springs (Ukraine-USA)
• Makom Sefarad (Spain)
• Global Partnership Hannover (Germany)
• Routes du Judaisme Rhenan (France)
• Agudath Israel in Moldova (Moldova)- observer member

We would like to give a warm welcome to the new institutions
that are part of the AEPJ family!

Our network has experienced a very important growth in recent years, tripling the number of members in the network, multiplying the number of projects implemented, as well as the participation in different projects of European programs such as Creative Europe, Erasmus+ or REC.

On the 14th of December we participated in the 3rd Transnational Fab Routes project meeting! 

The meeting took place in the beautiful Cuacos de Yuste in Spain and was hosted by our partners of the European Routes of Charles V.

In this project, six cultural routes of the Council of Europe, including the European Routes of Jewish Heritage, plus the University of Bologna and Argo, are working together to design an innovative educational module to improve our members skills in relation to Cultural Heritage Management and sustainable tourism.

It is a pleasure and a source of inspiration to work with our colleagues from the Council of Europe’s Cultural Routes family in the development of our projects. Thank you very much to all the partners for the fruitful discussions and we are looking forward to finally meet you in person in the next transnational meeting in April, which will take place in Ertfurt Germany.

During the week of 29 November to 3 December, more than 22 members of the 4 cultural routes of the Council of Europe that make up the consortium of the Creative Europe WalkEur project met at the headquarters of the AEPJ in Barcelona. The project is lead by the Routes of the Emperor Charles V, and has as international partners the European Association for the preservation and enhancement of the Jewish Heritage (Luxembourg), the European Ceramic Route Association (Italy), and ATRIUM-Architecture of the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century (Italy), all of them Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe.

During these training days, the theme of Cultural Management was discussed from the point of view of the challenges faced by the institutions that work with this type of routes and the solutions that can be found through innovation in this sector.

Izmir Sephardic Culture Festival is organized for the third time this year, with the contributions of Konak Municipality, to bring together the contributions of the Sephardic community, who has lived in Izmir since the 16th century, to the city and its culture, with unique events.

Sephardic Jews, who had to leave the Iberian Peninsula in the 15th century, embraced the cultural elements of the Muslim and Christian societies with which they shared life in Izmir, where different cultures and beliefs have lived side by side for thousands of years. As a result of this, a “Sephardic Culture”, which is perhaps unique in the world and unique only to Izmir, has emerged with its music, cuisine, traditions and reflections on art.

In addition to the boyoz and dwarf, which are almost identified with İzmir, historical synagogues with different architectures, Ladino folk songs and many other values have taken their place in the cultural treasure of the city.