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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.
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.
The ribbon cutting of the opening ceremony, was jointly made with the participation of Mayor of Metropolitan Municipality of Izmir Mr Tunç Soyer, Mayor of Konak Mr Abdul Batur, İZKA representative, Nesim Bencoya and Mr. Avram Sevinti the president of the Jewish community, which was a great moment to remember.
The ceremony started with the speeches of both Mayors, respectively, where they both expressed their sincere wishes for a happy Hanukkah and their great admiration of the work accomplished in Etz Hayim Synagogue. The president of the Jewish community Mr. Sevinti made a short welcome speech, and Nesim Bencoya also made a greeting speech which was followed by live music and dance performances admired by the audience.
Gratitude was expressed for Ms.