12/09/2022

Iter Vitis and the European Routes of Jewish Heritage work together in a series of sessions about kosher wine

By Claudia de Benedetti, first published in Italian at Shalom.it 

As part of the European Days of Jewish Culture 2022 programme, two of the Council of Europe’s Cultural Routes, the European Routes of Jewish Heritage (and AEPJ as its network carrier) and ITER VITIS, are organising a joint event in Tel Aviv for the first time. The event, hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute directed by Dr. Maria Sica, who has agreed to host the Cultural Routes, will be held on 12 September and in keeping with this year’s theme will deal with innovation, in this case innovation in kosher viticulture in Italy.

Speakers for AEPJ will be Judith Kiriaty and Uri Bar Ner of the Kiriaty Foundation, for ITER VITIS President Emanuela Panke, Rabbi Umberto Piperno will give a lecture on viticulture in the Jewish tradition.

09/09/2022

The Blaues Haus in Breisach celebrates the European Days of Jewish Culture 2022

Full house at the opening of our exhibition “Kiechlinsbergen. Erinnerungen an Karl Wolfskehl” which is dedicated to the jewish poet, translater and presents a selection of his poems and woodcuts by Brigitte v. Savigny.

Karl Wolfskehl (1869 Darmstadt – 1948 New Zealand) was a German Jewish author and translator. He wrote poetry, prose and drama in German, and translated from French, English, Italian, Hebrew, Latin and Old/Middle High German into German.

A lecture of his poems, read by Reinhold Voss, found a great audience. His grandson Joseph Köllhofer was present.

08/09/2022

Successful turnout at more than 30 events during the EDJC 2022 in Switzerland

The European Day of Jewish Culture 2022 has been very successful in Switzerland. There were over 30 events. Most of the local organizers were very satisfied with the participation and the involvement of the participants. Many questions were raised by the public who seems to have been very active this year. The guided tours of the synagogues in Basel, Delémont, Lengnau and Lausanne, the guided tours to the synagogue of Hegenheim as well as the tour about the first zionist congress in Basel, the movies and conferences have been very well received.

04/09/2022

The EDJC 2022 kicks off and the Sefer Torah of the Alsatian town of Schirmeck returns to its home after 77 years

The European Days of Jewish Culture 2022, under the theme “Renewal”, kicked off on Sunday 4 September across Europe. More than 400 institutions in 30 countries are organising activities in their cities to celebrate Jewish culture from an open, diverse and pluralistic point of view.

This year, the town chosen to host the kick-off of the festival was Schirmeck in the French region of Alsace. But this election was not fortuitous, the reason behind the choice of this location is highly symbolic. In a historical act, the Sefer Torah of this small town has returned to the synagogue after an extraordinary epic journey, which began with a story of friendship between two young neighbours in Schirmeck, one Jewish and one Christian.

31/08/2022

September opens with NOA pluralism seminars in Florence and Sarajevo

NOA (Networks Overcoming Antisemitism) is a project that is exploring multiple ways of dealing with antisemitism, counting among its main objectives the dissemination of positive narratives through socio-cultural educational activities towards diversity and Jewish culture, as well as with training and teaching tools that effectively counter antisemitic prejudice, aside others, to promote some serious steps in the development of holistic national strategies to address and prevent antisemitism.

In September two out of four seminars connected to NOA are being held in Florence (Italy) on 1st and 2nd September, hosted by the Comunità Ebraica di Firenze; and in Sarajevo (Bosna and Herzegovina) on 8th and 9th September by Hagada Sarajevo Association.

The first one, under the name Balagan Cafè – Special Edition, will focus on several cultural expressions in Jewish gastronomy, music, architecture, and literature where we can notice the notion of pluralism, specially regarding the influence by the context to the Jewish communities’ culture, and the opposite way, from the communities towards their context.

29/08/2022

New project underway: The Jewish Path of Caucasus

The Israeli House and the Azerbaijan Tourism Board have won the WalkEUR pilot action grant to develop a new collaborative Jewish heritage route, the Jewish Path of Caucasus.

The WalkEUR project, in which the AEPJ participates together with other Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, opened a call for grants three months ago, looking for innovative and transnational projects to strengthen the strategic development of the European Routes of Jewish Heritage. Through this project, AEPJ routes managers have participated in different trainings in Europe, together with other managers of other cultural routes. The call for grants is one of the last actions of this European project, opening new opportunities for the development of new projects.

In the case of the Israeli House and the Azerbaijan Tourism Board, the proposal for the creation of the Jewish Path of Caucasus, means opening a remarkable cooperation between Georgia and Azerbaijan, for the promotion of Jewish heritage, with the union of their two national routes.

19/08/2022

Welcome back to the Schirmeck’s Sefer Torah on the EDJC 2022 Kick-off in Alsace, France

As has been customary for more than 20 years, the European Days of Jewish Culture 2022 will take place in early SeptemberA pan-european Festival where the Jewish heritage is opened to the general public, with the aim of promoting dialogue, recognition and exchange. 

The European Days of Jewish Culture takes place each year in more than two dozen countries across the continent, and has become Europe’s most successful cross-border Jewish cultural initiative. The Festival is coordinated by the AEPJ, through a large network of institutions dedicated to Jewish heritage and culture. It also has a partnership with the National Library of Israel, which plays an active role in making available to the coordinators a wide range of archival materials and educational resources.

29/07/2022

The Shtetl Routes, featured at the Association for Jewish Studies

Emil Majuk, route manager of the Shtetl Routes, part of the European Routes of Jewish Heritage, certified by the Council of Europe, has had the honour of publishing an article on his work in promoting Jewish heritage in the journal Perspectives, the publication of the Association for Jewish Studies.

The Association for Jewish Studies is a learned society and professional organization whose mission is to advance research and teaching in Jewish Studies at colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher learning, and to foster greater understanding of Jewish Studies scholarship among the wider public.

The eastern border of the European Union runs through land that for over four hundred years, from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, was the most important center of Jewish culture in the world.

12/07/2022

NOA project’s Train The Trainers 2nd edition in Brussels

By Delphine Yagüe, Route Manager of the Medieval Route of Rashi in Champagne.

CEJI (A Jewish contribution to an inclusive Europe) is a NGO born in Brussels in 1991 aimed to create an inclusive and democratic Europe. It raises educational and participative trainings against antisemitism, racism, islamophobia, xenophobia and so on.

From June 20th to 23rd, CEJI organized in Brussels a Training for Trainers in French, to teach each one of the 14 participants how to develop group activities and raise the audience awareness against antisemitism. This is the second edition of a programme recently held in Budapest, which another AEPJ member, Peninah Zilberman, was able to attend.

This specific training titled Confronting antisemitism is a dense programme, part of the European project NOA, Networks Overcoming Antisemitism.

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