REDISCOVER Rediscover, expose and exploit the concealed Jewish heritage of the Danube Region
Today's Jewish society in the Danube region is fragmented: the capitals and large regional centers have a significant residual community with preserved religious and cultural features. Mid-sized cities with limited built cultural heritage are usually linked to well-known heritage centres on the tourism market. For them, the main challenge is to find ways to explore the tangible/intangible elements of Jewish cultural heritage in order to create competitive cultural products with potential tourism prospects.
The re-discovery of the Jewish cultural heritage of project scenes means that besides intangible elements that are well-known to the wide audience (synagogues, cemeteries, memorials, public/ business/residential buildings) are to be organised into creative attractions, to include and integrate intangible elements usually not recognised by the mainstream community and visitors. Such elements like music & literature, religion & festivals, traditions & lifestyle, cuisine & local recipes, oral history, photo collections, legacy of famous local born Jewish personalities, arts, events etc. This project would like to help creating competitive advantages for cities with otherwise scarce JCH attractions.
The main objective of the project is to explore, revive and present the hidden intellectual heritage along with locally available Jewish cultural heritage of project partner cities. That can create a jointly presented, synergistic tourism tool/service that is accessible to the wide audiance as well.
The involvement of locations with different historic economic background also enables the creation of solutions applicable for various other contexts, supporting transferability. Key outputs, like Joint Visibility Strategy, or Community–sourced Jewish Cultural Heritage Valorisation Handbook help to replicate the initiative in further cities of the Danube Region.
- Start date
- 01-06-2018
- End date
- 31-05-2021
- Budget in Euro
- Overall: 1846346,45
- ERDF Contribution: 1267175,28
- IPA Contribution: 302219,19
- ENI Contribution: 0
- Call number
- Call 2
- Priority
- Environment and culture responsible Danube region
- Specific objective
- Foster sustainable use of natural and cultural heritage and resources
Library
| Filename | Date of upload | |
|---|---|---|
| Guideline for the implementation of Cross-country “Walkshop” | 15-04-2019 12:49:50 | |
| Guideline for stakeholder involvement | 11-01-2019 20:36:51 | |
| Stakeholders of the project | 10-01-2019 08:13:30 | |
Project Partners
| Name | Type | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Municipality of Szeged | Lead partner | toth.eszter@szeged.eu | HUNGARY |
| Szeged and Surroundings Tourism Nonprofit Ltd. | ERDF partner | acs.szilvia@szegedtourinfo.hu | HUNGARY |
| Municipality of Galati | ERDF partner | hanta.c@primariagalati.ro | ROMANIA |
| Municipality of Timisoara | ERDF partner | Gabriel.Popa@primariatm.ro | ROMANIA |
| Institute for Culture, Tourism and Sport Murska Sobota | ERDF partner | helga.lukac@zkts-ms.si | SLOVENIA |
Project News
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REDISCOVER - Launching video series on Facebook
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REDISCOVER - Book launching in Galati: A History of the Jews in Galati – A Chronicle from the beginning to the Great Emigration
- 05-04-2019
A book launching event took place at the Galati Synagogue (Temple of Craftsmen) on 24th March 2019. The book "A History of the Jews in Galati – A Chronicle from the beginning to the Great Emigration" was published at the Hasefer Publishing House...
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REDISCOVER - Germany: New synagogue opens in Regensburg, 80 years after Nazi-led pogrom
- 28-03-2019
A new synagogue has opened in Regensburg, Bavaria, 80 years after the original was destroyed during the Nazi-led pogrom of November 1938. The city's Catholic bishop has asked its Jewish community for forgiveness. The new synagogue had risen...
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REDISCOVER - Prominent Jewish persons' role during the reconstruction of Szeged
- 28-03-2019
140 years ago Szeged was almost destroyed by the Great Flood. March 12 th, 1879 brought Szeged's darkest hour. Only 265 of the 5723 houses remained and 165 people died. Emperor Franz Joseph visited the town and promised that "Szeged will be more...
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REDISCOVER - Leopold Lauscher – photographer of the Great Flood of Szeged
- 28-03-2019
Leopold Lauscher was born in Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1838, no documentations were found on his early years. He married Nanette Letzter on the 9th of March 1862 according to the marital church records of the Orthodox Jewish...
