European Day of Jewish Culture

The European Day of Jewish Culture is a day of action , which is celebrated annually since 1999 on the first Sunday of September. Today, it is jointly organized by Jewish and non-Jewish organizations in almost 30 European countries and is intended to provide a better understanding of European Judaism , its history, traditions and customs in the past and present. On this occasion, guided tours to sites of Jewish culture , concerts, exhibitions, lectures, etc. are organized on a local and regional level with an annually changing main theme .

coordination

The European Association for the preservation and promotion of culture and heritage of Judaism , (Engl. European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage , AEPJ) coordinates the action. It is based in Girona , Spain. Its sponsors are six organizations

• B'nai B'rith Europe,
• Red de Juderías de España - Caminos de Sefarad ( Network of Jewish Cities in Spain - Sephardic Migration Routes).
• Social Juif Unifié Fund
• Rede de Judiarias de Portugal
• Unione delle Comunità Ebraiche Italiane
• Journées Européennes de la Culture et du Patrimoine Juifs - France (JECPJ France)

There are national coordinators in each participating country.

Germany

On the day of the event in 2009, September 6th, the Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR) opened the LVR-Kulturhaus Landsynagoge Rödingen with a permanent exhibition on the subject of "Jewish life in the Rhineland", since then the European Day of Jewish Culture has been celebrated in Rödingen every year.

2015 officially participate in Germany

• 46 places and institutions in Baden-Württemberg
• in Bavaria the Jewish Culture Museum Augsburg-Swabia and the Jewish Community Center in Munich
• in North Rhine-Westphalia the Jewish Museum Westphalia , the Old Synagogue Essen (in cooperation with the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute ) and the LVR-Kulturhaus Landsynagoge Rödingen .

Data, key issues

• 2001: Judaism and the Arts
• 2002: Jewish Calendar and Jewish Holidays in Art, Music and Food
• 2003: Passover
• 2004: Judaism and Education
• 2005: Jewish cuisine
• 2006: European Routes of Jewish Heritage
• 2007: contemporary witnesses
• 2008: Jewish Music
• 2009: Jewish festivals and customs
• 2010: Art and Judaism
• 2011: heritage and modernity
• 2012: Jewish humor
• 2013: Jewish culture and nature
• 2014: Women in Judaism
• 2015: bridges
• 2016 (September 4): Jewish languages
• 2017 (September 3): Diasporas
• 2018 (September 2nd): Storytelling - telling stories
• 2019 (September 1; 1999–2019: 20 years of European Day of Jewish Culture )

Web links

• jewisheritage.org: European Day of Jewish Culture (English)
• jecpj-france.com: Journées Européennes de la Culture et du Patrimoine Juifs - France (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EDJC in Germany (as of August 31, 2015)
2. ↑ Program of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde München for the European Day of Jewish Culture 2012 (PDF file; 219 kB)
3. ↑ 2013 program for Alsace and Baden-Württemberg (PDF; 1.7 MB)
4. ↑ 2013 program for Switzerland ( Memento of the original dated December 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.7 MB)  
5. ↑ landjudentum-unterfranken.de: European Day of Jewish Culture, September 14, 2014 ()
6. ↑ jewisheritage.org (January 28, 2018)