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Less than three months ago, the AEPJ, in collaboration with the Jewish Community of Izmir, organised a training programme for Jewish heritage route developers. More than 20 delegates travelled to Turkey to work, learn and make study visits to the fantastic project that our colleagues are carrying out. We had the opportunity to meet representatives from the Izmir Jewish Heritage Project, Jewish community leaders and other local stakeholders working on the ground. We forged bonds and created connections that extend beyond the workplace.
This week, we are devastated by the news from Syria and Turkey. Images of the earthquake and destruction echo in our heads and our hearts. Our thoughts are with the victims and with all of those affected.
In recent years the AEPJ has experienced a systematic growth, both in the network of member institutions, as well as in the development and implementation of Jewish heritage projects and initiatives at European level. Thus, it has become necessary to reinforce the Association’s office team, with a new person in charge of communication, a crucial area in order to increase our operational capacity for the European Days of Jewish Culture and the European Routes of Jewish Heritage, certified by the Council of Europe.
We are therefore very happy to introduce you to Judith Teboul. Judith, based in Paris, works as Communications Officer at the AEPJ. She graduated from Columbia University in English Literature and Political Science, where she wrote pieces as a contributing writer for the Jewish literary magazine, The Current, and co-founded the International Jewish Community, which organized events with a focus toward Jewish diversity and culture.
Exciting news for all European Days of Jewish Culture (EDJC) organizers and coordinators! The highly anticipated EDJC Organisers & Coordinators Meeting 2023 will reach its climax with a final session and closing ceremony at the prestigious UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
The AEPJ and the coordinaton of the European Days of Jewish Culture is proud to announce that the final session and closing ceremony of the EDJC Organisers & Coordinators Meeting 2023 will be held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. This is a significant milestone in the history of the festival and a testament to its growing reputation and importance.
As the festival continues to grow and evolve, this partnership with UNESCO will help to further promote the importance of Jewish culture and heritage, and provide a platform for discussions about the role of Memory in shaping our cultural identities.
The European Days of Jewish Culture (EDJC) is a continent-wide festival that takes place annually in cities across Europe. The festival aims to promote Jewish culture and heritage, and to create a platform for dialogue and understanding between Jewish and non-Jewish communities.
The festival is organized by local coordinators and volunteers, who plan and execute a wide variety of cultural events, such as concerts, exhibitions, film screenings, and lectures. These events take place in museums, synagogues, cultural centers, and other venues, and are open to the public.
The EDJC Organisers and Coordinators Meeting 2023 is an annual event that brings together organizers and coordinators from across Europe to share ideas, best practices, and to plan for the upcoming festival. This year’s meeting will be held in Paris on February 22nd and 23rd, and will focus on the theme of “Memory“.
The International Izmir Sephardic Culture Festival has been awarded within the Respect for History Local Conservation Awards. This festival, directed by Nesim Bencoya and his project Izmir Jewish Heritage, AEPJ member in Turkey, happened over nine days in December that included the week of Hanukkah, thousands attended the annual Sephardic culture festival that Nesim has organized since 2018. The festival included concerts of Jewish and Ladino music, traditional food tastings, lectures on Izmir’s Jewish community, and — since it coincided with Hanukkah and also a Shabbat — both a menorah lighting ceremony and havdalah ceremony were conducted with explanations from Izmir’s leading cantor, Nesim Beruchiel.
This year’s festival marked a turning point: it was the first in which organizers were able to show off several of the centuries-old synagogues that the project — with funding from the European Union and the local municipality — has been restoring.
The Grodzka Gate–NN Theatre, AEPJ member in Lublin, Poland, organizes its Lubliner Reunion 2023, an international meeting of the Jewish inhabitants of Lublin and their descendants.
The program will offer a rich array of meetings, lectures, commemorative events, exhibitions, music, theater, film, tours and workshops. The whole event will be an opportunity for Lubliners to get to know each other as well as present-day Lublin.
The main part of the Reunion will take place from Sunday, July 2, 2023 (Welcome Ceremony and Gathering) through Wednesday, July 5, 2023 (Closing Ceremony). On July 6 and 7 Grodzka Gate–NN Theatre will be offering tours to nearby destinations of interest, and on Friday evening, July 7, 2023 the Lublin Jewish Community will be facilitating Shabbat services and dinner.
The AEPJ is organizing a competition within the framework of the European Days of Jewish Culture 2023 for the creation of its official poster, on the theme “Memory”. The competition is open to the Coordinators and Organizers of activities of the EDJC and they may distribute this call among their networks.
The purpose of the competition is to create the 2023 poster for the European Days of Jewish Culture, which will be published online on the association’s website, printed and distributed by the national coordinators on various media (brochures, posters, press releases, websites, etc.) all over Europe.
The poster must include the AEPJ logo (including the Council of Europe logo), the EU flag with the text “Co-funded by the European Union” and the National Library of Israel logo; the word “Memory” and the name of all participating countries.
The European Days of Jewish Culture festival, which has been organised since 1999 by the AEPJ, pursues to highlight the diversity and richness of Judaism and its local, regional and national historical importance, with the firm intention of promoting dialogue, recognition and exchange through conferences, concerts, performances, guided tours and other activities, which take place simultaneously throughout the continent.
The pan-European festival of the European Days of Jewish Culture 2023 will take place in an extraordinary context and under the umbrella of an exceptional programme: the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme of the European Union. The AEPJ-led European funding project has been awarded €486,760.00 for the development of this edition, which will include a face-to-face EDJC Organisers and Coordinators meeting in Paris , online training on Memory, a Remembrance seminar in the Netherlands, a photographic European exhibition in Paris, an online exhibition on theinternational holocaust remembrance day, and much more.
The AEPJ has organized, at its headquarters at Casa Adret, in Barcelona, a meeting between the cultural routes certified by the Council of Europe that have members in the territory of Catalonia. The goal of the meeting was to disseminate the outputs of the Fab Route project, 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. In addition, we took the opportunity to find out, due to territorial proximity, which are the common interests, needs and realities shared with AEPJ, as well as Patronat Call de Girona and Diputació de Lleida, as members of the Catalan Route of Jewish Heritage.