The “Project 2025 – Arche Musica” is an innovative German-Israeli research and education project Project of musical remembrance. It is run on a voluntary basis.
Project partners are the “Music Department and National Sound Archive of the National Library of Israel” in Jerusalem and the “Music Department of the Tel Aviv School of Arts”. The scientific project team processes, digitizes and transliterates the works collected in the “Arche Musica” and transfers them into the regular and barrier-free musical notation. Because of its special significance, Dr. Felix Klein, the Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life and the Fight against Anti-Semitism, has assumed patronage.
A central goal of the project is the research of secular Jewish-German music history and the establishment of a musical culture of remembrance for the prevention of anti-Semitism, which does not yet exist in this form.
The digital library and knowledge platform “Arche Musica”, is the central core of the “Project 2025 – Arche Musica”. It is a musical memory, comparable to the “Noah’s Ark”. Its task is to preserve the almost forgotten compositions and pieces of music from the time of Jewish emancipation, the Holocaust and the DP camps, to digitize them and to make these manuscripts and pieces of music accessible to the largest possible circle of pupils, schools, educational institutions, universities and interested people worldwide. In this way, unique testimonies of Jewish-German music history will be saved from decay and oblivion. All compiled contents will be published on the digital library and knowledge platform “Arche Musica” in several languages for general use and participation.
The digitized and republished “Jewish-German Songbook of 1912” forms the first, central building block. On April 27, 2023, the new edition of the “Jewish-German Songbook of 1912” was awarded the prize “Best Musikedition 2023” at the Leipzig Book Fair.
The more than 1200-year-old cultural castle in Wernsdorf (state of Bavaria) is the project’s headquarters in Germany.
The “Project 2025 – Arche Musica” is an innovative German-Israeli research and education project Project of musical remembrance. It is run on a voluntary basis.
Project partners are the “Music Department and National Sound Archive of the National Library of Israel” in Jerusalem and the “Music Department of the Tel Aviv School of Arts”. The scientific project team processes, digitizes and transliterates the works collected in the “Arche Musica” and transfers them into the regular and barrier-free musical notation. Because of its special significance, Dr. Felix Klein, the Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life and the Fight against Anti-Semitism, has assumed patronage.
A central goal of the project is the research of secular Jewish-German music history and the establishment of a musical culture of remembrance for the prevention of anti-Semitism, which does not yet exist in this form.
The Jewish Community of Athens, the largest Jewish community in Greece, is a vibrant and dynamic community consisting of over 3.500 members.
Its main purposes are philanthropic, cultural and educational.
Our community operates two Synagogues – a Sephardic and a Romaniote one, a cultural center, a Jewish cemetery and the Lauder School of the Jewish Community of Athens.
One of our primary goals is to preserve the historical course of our Community, to cultivate and enrich the Jewish identity of our members with an emphasis on education and strengthen the impact of our community. Additionally, we are hosting touristic and educational tours to various target groups (touristic, educational and donor groups) from Greece and abroad through which we aim not only at educating but also at fighting growing antisemitism.
The Mordechai Kiriaty Foundation is a philanthropic non-profit N.G.O., that has encouraged and supported humanitarians educational and cultural institutions. The Foundation has initiated two major ventures and supports them: The Peace Academy which focuses on teaching peace studies in Israel, and the Izmir Project which focuses on preservation of the historic synagogues in Izmir-Turkey, and establishing a Jewish Museum.
Makom Sefarad is a cultural project dedicated to facilitating spaces of dialog and coexistence through activities and programs connected to the history and legacy of Jewish Spain.
Our activities and programs delve into the history of coexistence of the Spanish Jews alongside other peoples, and in the rich Sephardic tradition that resulted from their encounter with diversity, with the objective of identifying aspects of that tradition that might guide us as we face the challenges of life in a plural society today.
Makom Sefarad is an invitation to see opportunities for growth in encounters with difference, both as individuals and as a society.
Our Mission: To be a Point of Encounter
Makom means “place” in Hebrew. Makom Sefarad, therefore, signifies a place in Sefarad (Spain) to meet with the other, who may live, think, or be different from oneself.
Global Partnership Hannover was founded on the occasion of Expo 2000 in Hannover.
The aim of the association is to promote sustainable development, international understanding, international cultural exchange as well as environmental and climate protection by means of its own projects and through cooperation with corresponding networks.
The current focus is on sustainable tourism, sustainable social models and remembrance culture. Here, the anchoring of the “European Route of Jewish Cultural Heritage in Germany” plays a special role. To illustrate Jewish life in the past and today, we have developed various attractive modules, for example
* Click&Walk photo workshops to make traces of Jewish life visible
* A composition competition combined with a concert series to make Jewish awareness of life sound
* A poetry slam competition to bring Jewish thinking to mind
The European Route of Judaism on the Rhineland is a non-profit public association based in Strasbourg (France). It aims to explore, revitalize and promote the history and tangible and intangible heritage of Jewish communities and to create competitive cultural and touristic offers – with the possibility of including them in transnational networks through synergistic tools and services jointly presented and accessible to a wide audience with the aim of openness and transmission..
The Route is carried out in the Upper Rhine area with the participation of cities and regions, associations and museums: as Strasbourg, Colmar and Mulhouse and other sites in Alsace (France), Bade Wurtemberg with the Südlicher Oberrhein sites, ShUM cities as Mainz, Worms and Speyer in Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany), and Basel Jewish Museum (Switzerland) and Hohenems Jewish museum(Austria) which are already or in the future our partners in the project.
Heritage Springs is a non-profit organization based in the United States, Israel and Ukraine. The vision of the organization is primarily the preservation of Jewish heritage, beginning in the Zakarpattia oblast with the restoration of the former synagogue in Vilkhivtsi. In addition to this flagship project, Heritage Springs has also been active with other Jewish preservation projects including the restoration of multiple Jewish cemeteries including in Vilkhivtsi as well Sokyrnytsia in Ukraine. The organization is also currently developing a route of Jewish Heritage spanning the “Maramorosh” region of Western Ukraine, an area previously occupied by Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Romania.
Agudath Israel in Moldova is one of the veteran and leading Jewish organizations in the republic that operates since 1991 in Chisinau, Balti, Tiraspol, etc. attracting over 1,000 active participants.
The spectrum of programs run by Agudath Israel includes a wide variety of activities for children, teens, and adults: Shabbats and holidays, learning Torah and Jewish traditions, kosher meals cooking and distribution, afterschool and Sunday programs, summer camps, welfare programs for the needy community members, etc.
In 2021, Agudath Israel in Moldova entered the Agency of Interethnic Relations of Moldova and AEPJ (The European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage). In the frames of these structures, it initiated and launched several innovative for Moldova projects on the Jewish Heritage like European Routes and Jewish Tours, European days of Jewish Culture, as well as the joint programs and events with the government of Moldova, Embassies of Germany, Italy, USA, Sweden, Ukraine, municipality of Chisinau.
The World Jewish Travel, Inc. is a non-profit organization established in 2011. The WJT mission is to preserve Jewish heritage worldwide and promote tourism to a variety of sites and cultural events around the world that are of great importance to the Jewish heritage continuity. WJT stand up for our heritage, giving it back its long-lost voice, in honor of past generations, and in favor of those to come. To do so, WJT have developed an integrated ecosystem, bringing together heritage, travel and technology, via an innovative, first-of-its-kind platform, reframing the concept of Jewish heritage and adjusting it to the 21st century.