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The President of the AEPJ – European Association for the Enhancement and Preservation of Jewish Heritage – François Moyse together with Claudia de Benedetti, Assumpció Hosta and Annie Sacerdoti, representatives of the organisation’s Board of Directors, significantly placed a plaque in front of one of the oldest mikveh, ritual baths, in Sicily in Syracuse this morning, 20 October.
“Today, the AEPJ is proud to unveil a plaque in a very special place”, said Francois Moyse, “and our thanks go to Amalia Danielle di Bagni for preserving and looking after this treasure. This mikveh is testimony to the historical presence of Jews on the island of Ortigia. Syracuse was one of the first cities in eastern Sicily to welcome Jews. But, sadly, it was also the city that expelled them in late 1492 because of the Spanish Inquisition.”
We are pleased to present an interesting Inspiring Renewal Session given by Caron Sethill, Programme Manager Europe at the National Library of Israel.
In this session, following the successful dynamic initiated last year with the Inspiring Dialogue Sessions, we learnt about the process of Renewal that the National Library of Israel is going through and its new building, as a symbol and metaphor of Renewal in the world of Jewish culture. We hope that this session will inspire us to continue working on this process of Renewal and to reflect on the role of Jewish culture in creating a more pluralistic and inclusive Europe.
Caron Sethill is Progamme Manager Europe at the National Library of Israel (NLI), managing Gesher L’Europa, (A Bridge to Europe), established as part of the NLI’s renewal process, which aims to share NLI Collections in creative ways, and engage people with shared interests working in Jewish settings in Europe.
This article first appeared at Georgia Today.
The Israeli House presented the Biblical Route of Jewish Cultural Heritage to the general public on September 25, the Jewish New Year. The route is agreed with the European Association for the Protection and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage (AEPJ) operating under the auspices of the Council of Europe, and the main route, the Jewish path of the Caucasus, is part of the EU program under the WalkEur project.
Israeli House is a member organization of AEPJ and, on the recommendation of the Ministry of Culture, officially oversees the European Routes of Jewis Heritage certified by the Council of Europe in Georgia.
The aim of the new route is to make the Jewish Heritage Route interesting and attractive to the world and for it to be presented on behalf of AEPJ at world tourism exhibitions.
As a partner of the Jewish History Tours project, AEPJ joined the Europeana 2022 conferences under the title Making digital culture count, where altogether with other partners such as Jewish Heritage Network, Pangeanic and Europeana itself, to share the experience of the Jewish History Tours development, as well as the link and outputs it is providing to the European Routes of Jewish Heritage network. Actually, this was the first step of the project, to create and distribute self-guided audio tours across Jewish sites, but the next step for all of us within the project is to build a strategic cooperation between Europeana and Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe program.
The session, led by Pavel Kats, Alex Tourski, Marc Francesch Camps and Alexander Raginsky consisted of a co-design workshop where the public explored how this cooperation can be constructed, learning from the lessons of the Jewish Heritage Tours project.
François Moyse, AEPJ president, participated in the unveiling of the newly renovated oculus window of the Ramath Orah congregation in New York City, together with the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Mr. Xavier Bettel and other prominent personalities.
The unveiling has honoured the legacy of Rabbi Robert Serebrenik. During the Nazi occupation of Luxembourg he transferred more than 2000 Jews out of the country and into safety. He stayed until the bitter end with his Community and left on one of the last convoys together with 61 other refugees from Luxembourg to New York City. When they were forced to leave their home they founded a new spiritual home in Ramath Orah.
As a partner of the Jewish History Tours project, AEPJ is joining the Europeana 2022 conferences under the title Making digital culture count, where altogether with other partners such as Jewish Heritage Network, Pangeanic and Europeana itself, to share the experience of the Jewish History Tours development, as well as the link and outputs it is providing to the European Routes of Jewish Heritage network. Actually, this was the first step of the project, to create and distribute self-guided audio tours across Jewish sites, but the next step for all of us within the project is to build a strategic cooperation between Europeana and Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe program.
The session will consist of a co-design workshop where we will explore how this cooperation can be constructed, learning from the lessons of the Jewish Heritage Tours project.
Ms. Judith Kiriaty-Matalon, president of the Kiriaty Foundation, leads the work of this international foundation supporting various humanitarian, educational and cultural projects. Member of the AEPJ since 2019, the foundation has supported and participated in many of the AEPJ’s projects and has encouraged the development of remarkable endeavors in the recovery of European Jewish heritage. In 2020 we interviewed Ms. Judith Kiriaty-Matalon about this work. 3 years later, and on the occasion of her recent election as a member of the AEPJ Board at the Association’s General Assembly 2022 in Hanover, Germany; we interviewed Ms. Judith Kiriaty-Matalon again to find out her expectations and vision for the AEPJ in the coming years.
AEPJ: Ms. Judith Kiriaty-Matalon, in 2019 your foundation became a partner of AEPJ with the aim of promoting European Jewish heritage.
François Moyse, AEPJ’s president, was interviewed by Actualité Juive magazine on the occasion of the European Days of Jewish Culture 2022. You can download the interview in French in PDF or read the English translation below.
Lawyer, community activist (he was president of the Consistoire du Luxembourg and director of B’nai B’rith Europe) and passionate about Jewish heritage, François Moyse presides over the European Association for Jewish Heritage (jewisheritage.org) based in Luxembourg, which runs the European Days of Jewish Culture in partnership with groups in some twenty countries.
The European adventure of the Days of Jewish Culture and Heritage started in Alsace at the end of the 1990s with “open days” and has since expanded considerably. What is your assessment?
François Moyse: The results are extremely positive.
On 20 and 21 September 2022, a meeting of the consortium of partner institutions in the Fab Route project is being held, a KA2 project co-funded by the Erasmus + Programme to enhance EU Cultural Routes by designing an innovative educational module to improve their members skills in relation to Cultural Heritage Management and sustainable tourism.
The project is being implemented by 8 partners: 6 European Cultural Routes officially recognized by the Council of Europe (ATRIUM – Architecture of Totalitarian Regimes in Europe’s Urban Memory and Phoenician Routes registered in Italy; The Olive Tree Cultural Foundation based in Greece, The European Routes of Emperor Charles V with headquarters in Spain, the Via Regia based in Germany and the AEPJ, network carrier of the European Routes of Jewish Heritage based in Luxembourg.