CAJM — The Council of American Jewish Museums — is partnering with the Association of European Jewish Museums on a first online Global Conference for Jewish Museums.
See the program lineup in the conference brochure
The conferences will collectively examine the topic of Upheaval – knowing that contemporary issues and forces around the world, including the pandemic, have had a great impact on museums and museum professionals. At the same time, museums are creating their own upheavals – through innovation, reconfiguration, and new priorities that will reshape their work for years to come.
A series of three online talks by Dr. Samuel D. Gruber, president of the International Survey of Jewish Monuments. Part of the Orange County Jewish Community Scholar Program.
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The final, wrap-up conference of the three-year EU-funded Rediscover project, which promoted Jewish heritage and Jewish heritage tourism in nine small cities in eight countries in central Europe’s Danube Region.
Register at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bckZa1xKR5SWOVX6ePH70g
Program highlights:
- Talk show about “The Plurality of Modern Judaism” with Mirna Funk, Zvika Kfir, Linda Vero Ban and Ana Lebl
- Presentation and transferability of the INTERREG-project achievements with Martynas Uzpelkis
- Ideas for the development of your local tourism strategy: Ruth Ellen Gruber and Victor Sorenssen in conversation about the added value of Jewish Community-sourced tourism and the role of public institutions
CAJM — The Council of American Jewish Museums — is partnering with the Association of European Jewish Museums on a first online Global Conference for Jewish Museums.
See the program lineup in the conference brochure
The conferences will collectively examine the topic of Upheaval – knowing that contemporary issues and forces around the world, including the pandemic, have had a great impact on museums and museum professionals. At the same time, museums are creating their own upheavals – through innovation, reconfiguration, and new priorities that will reshape their work for years to come.
CAJM — The Council of American Jewish Museums — is partnering with the Association of European Jewish Museums on a first online Global Conference for Jewish Museums.
See the program lineup in the conference brochure
The conferences will collectively examine the topic of Upheaval – knowing that contemporary issues and forces around the world, including the pandemic, have had a great impact on museums and museum professionals. At the same time, museums are creating their own upheavals – through innovation, reconfiguration, and new priorities that will reshape their work for years to come.
Join JHE’s Ruth Ellen Gruber, the AEPJ’s Victor Sorenssen and the Taube Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland Foundation‘s Helise Lieberman for a wide-ranging round-table on the realities of Jewish monuments and heritage sites in Europe – from their destruction during and after the Shoah and the ‘Jewish archaeology’ of their documentation and rediscovery to the multiple challenges and strategies for their preservation and future use for religious purposes, education, tourism, culture, commemoration, and more.
The discussion will be moderated by Bill Echikson, Brussels Director of the European Union for Progressive Judaism.
The catalyst for the conversation is a set of strategic guidelines issued by Sally Berkovic, the CEO of the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe. Called “10 (other) Commandments – for the Care of Jewish Heritage.” They provide a framework to look back at what has happened, assess the current situation, and focus on the future.
Find the article here: https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/have-your-say/10-commandments-of-jewish-heritage/
Click here to register — https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SaBXxuFoSkW5w-pcHowMHA
Why should Jewish heritage matter? To whom does it belong? Who are the responsible stakeholders in its preservation? How can we ensure its future?
A #TJHTalks program organized in partnership with the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland, the European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage, and Jewish Heritage Hard Talk.
Four experts will respond to these questions from global, regional, national, and local perspectives. They will discuss achievements thus far and how cooperation and strategic thinking are necessary to overcome the challenges that lie ahead.
The webinar will include a 45-minute discussion, followed by a 15-minute Q&A, in which you can ask questions submitted before or during the broadcast.
Speakers:
Ruth Ellen Gruber, Coordinator, Jewish Heritage Europe
Piotr Puchta, Director, Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland
Victor Sorenssen, Director, The European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage (AEPJ)
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A 1-1/2 day seminar of the Moreshet project, an EU-funded Jewish heritage project linking half a dozen towns and cities in Europe.
Theme of the seminar (which barring COVID would have taken place in Mantova, Italy) is “Adapt to Reuse”, dealing with aspects related to recovering and reusing of Jewish religious properties. The online event will give the opportunity, through case studies, to learn and identify the possibilities, outline problems and evaluate solutions in the area of Jewish heritage Architecture.
(Our picture shows a Jewish museum in a former synagogue in Trani, Italy.)
The opening session on Tuesday 11 May at 18:00 CET, will be introduced by a narrated concert, music by Salomone Rossi Mantovano, followed by official greetings and a keynote presentation.
The Seminar working session on Wednesday 12 May, is divided into morning and afternoon blocks. At the end of each block a workshop discussion will be held.
The morning session will concentrate on case studies from Italy, such as: cemeteries, disused synagogues, and an archeological site. The second session will be dedicated to case studies from outside Italy.
The theme of this year’s European Day of Jewish Culture will be Dialogue. In the run-up to the September EDJC, the AEPJ is hosting a series of online events about dialogue.
This first session will feature Zuzanna Radzik, Vice President of the Polish NGO Forum for Dialogue. Theologian, author of books. She graduated the Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Warsaw and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and specializes in Catholic-Jewish relations. In 2019, she received the Irena Sendler Memorial Award for her work on Polish/Jewish dialogue and the role of women in Catholicism.
Forum for Dialogue is the oldest and largest non-governmental organization in Poland engaging in Polish/Jewish dialogue. Its mission, realized chiefly in small towns and rural areas all across Poland, is to inspire connections between modern Poland and Jews living all over the world.
Its program”Leaders of Dialogue” links dozens of non-Jewish Poles who work in small towns around the country to preserve Jewish heritage — with actions such as cleaning up and maintaining Jewish cemeteries, etc.
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A Zoom seminar about the project to restore the Jewish cemetery of Gorizia, Italy, that now lies across the border outside Nova Gorica, Slovenia. The twin cities will jointly be the European Cultural Capital in 2025, with their shared Jewish heritage playing a role. In Italian
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Read our 2017 article about the shared Jewish heritage of the towns
Read an Italian perspective about the project
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