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JEWISH HERITAGE OF EUROPE
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Program 1998-1999
Excerpts from the Program application
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| This year Greece is participating
together with Italy and Germany in the European Community action program
proposal titled: "Endangered Jewish Sites in Europe: The synagogue". The purpose of this year’s Community action program in the field of the Jewish cultural heritage, is designed to highlight the common cultural heritage features and transitional cross currents that have helped towards the emergence of a common cultural heritage across the European borders. Furthermore, this common Jewish cultural heritage that has developed across Europe, has maintained the uniqueness of the Jewish heritage of each specific country, offering a pattern of different architectural expressions, within a common type. Jewish heritage in Europe, spanning over 2,000 years of history in countries such as Greece [Nehama, J., Histoire des Israelites de Salonique, Vol. 1, Thessaloniki 1935, p. 10 and Acts (16-18)] is one of the most important extant Jewish heritage today. This heritage also includes nuclei of Jewish life and culture that have had a great deal of influence to other countries around the world, such as the Jewish heritage of Italy, with roots to antiquity [Foerster, G., A Survey of Ancient Diaspora Synagogues, in Levine, L. (ed.), The Ancient Synagogues Revealed, Jerusalem 1981, pp. 169-171]. This important heritage only lately has been receiving the attention that it deserves. With only few exceptions, Europe suffered under the Nazi regime in the 1930s and 1940s. However, the group that counted the greatest losses in people and property were the numerous and, many ancient (Such as the Jewish communities of Chalkis and Ioannina, in Greece), Jewish communities of Europe. For example, Germany itself lost hundreds of synagogues during Kristallnacht, in 1938. This program will offer the rare opportunity to the three participating high education EU partner institutions -Greece: National Technical University of Athens, Germany: Technische Universitat Braunschweig, and Italy: Jewish Community of Milan, to study and discuss in the depth issues pertaining to the architecture of the European synagogue. The network among these three partners will be further enhanced with the participation of the Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and the European Council for Jewish Communities, in London, UK. |
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