REDISCOVER Rediscover, expose and exploit the concealed Jewish heritage of the Danube Region

This year was a special one for Timisoara and for its Jewish Community. On September 1, 2019, the city hosted the first edition of the Jewish Festival "Shalom Jerusalem" Timisoara. The event was organized by the Jewish Community of Timisoara,...

We are delighted to invite you to the first Jewish festival in Timisoara. The festival will take place on 1st of September, starting at 10.00 local time. The program will include the show of the Jewish Theatre from Bucharest with a famous...

Next year will be the 160th anniversary of Lipót Baumhorn Jewish architect's birthday. He designed many buildings in many cities along the Danube. One of his buildings is the Szeged Synagouge. During the design process he wrote letters to rabbi...

There were two contests held for elderly people from the Day Center in Timisoara in May: one of dessert ornaments and one of glass-painting. Contests always animate and delight the elderly. This kind of activities and their weekly meetings are...

In this article Rediscover project would like to give a glimpse of another project dealing with Jewish heritage in Hungary, Szeged. This project seeks to catalog, index and partly (ca. 15 meters out of a total of 25 meters) digitize the...

During the spring Rediscover project’s second thematic work package has begun. WP4 focuses on tourism product development, harmonisation and integration of attractions identified in WP3. There will be 3 product development workshops in this WP:...

The event was organised by the City of Osijek municipal company Ukop Ltd. and Komunal magazine. The main issue was the management of the cemeteries and the financing of the infrastructure, the cemeteries as a mirror of cultural heritage, and one...

Gunter Demnig  “You don’t trip on a STOLPERSTEIN, you stumble with your head and your heart.” Source: http://www.stolpersteine.eu/en/home/ A STOLPERSTINE was laid at 12 Gutenberg Street on May 16, 2019 to commemorate Móric Pick...

Within the Days of open doors of EU-funded projects, initiated for the EU caampaign EU in My Region by Croatian Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds, and hosted and organised by the City of Osijek promoted our project, Rediscover. The...

The promotion of the book Finding Nemon was held on May 14 in Museum of Fine Arts in Osijek hosted by the City of Osijek.The famous artist's daughter, Lady Aurelia Young, wrote the book based on his unfinished memoirs and on detailed research...

The implementation of the project REDISCOVER has reached its first important stage, as project partners are coming close to finalising their local repositories of Jewish Cultural Heritage. This will lay the foundations of the product development...

In the framework of the project REDISCOVER, a WALKSHOP was organized for project partners by the Municipality of Timisoara in cooperation with the Jewish Community of the city. The walkshop, guided by Rabbi Zvika Kfir and Mr Gabriel Székely was...

In line with the project’s main objective to build on currently undiscovered potential in the Jewish cultural heritage of cities, and develop contemporary tourism solutions, as a start of the thematic activities of the project, a community...

In the framework of the Environment and culture responsible Danube region Priority of the Interreg Duna Transnational Program, the project REDISCOVER, (Rediscover, expose and exploit the concealed Jewish heritage of the Danube Region,...

On the occasion of Pesach, on Saturday, April 20 2019, Osijek Jewish Community and the City of Osijek organised the Sephard music evening in Osijek. The concert  was mainly financed by Osijek City Government - the City of Osijek. The performing...

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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...

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...

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...

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...