Our new HAVE YOUR SAY essay is up, about Jewish history and heritage in Galați, a port city on the Danube in northern Romania’s Moldavia region.
Over the past three years, REDISCOVER, a project financed by the EU’s Danube Transnational Programme, joined 18 partners in eight countries whose aim was to reveal and promote often hidden Jewish heritage and encourage Jewish heritage tourism as a component of local tourism.
Galați was one of the nine mid-sized cities that formed the REDISCOVER network.
In her Have Your Say essay, Anca Filipovici, of the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, describes how the REDISCOVER project was implemented there with a multifaceted Jewish culture festival — that was forced to be held online because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Click to read Anca’s Have Your Say essay