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Friday, July 23, 2021

Journeys. A history of the Jewish People

The new exhibition of the Museum of Jewish History opens today. Open until March 2022

The Museum of Jewish History presents, starting today, Friday, July 23, "Journeys. A history of the Jewish People", an exhibition on a journey of thirty-eight centuries, through various paths that border practically every corner of the world and that span from 1730 BCE to the present day. It is the story of a people, told through a thousand routes that are physical and social, political and conceptual. It is the story of the paths that the Jewish People have been building throughout time, overcoming adversities and rewriting itself based on shared experiences and a common, fundamental, defining and identifying memory. As the Israeli poet Yehuda Amijai wrote, in the trajectory of the Jewish People:

"The roads are new,
the shoes, bought yesterday,
but the march is old and inherited. "

The exhibition is born from an original idea of ​​the European Association for Jewish Heritage (AEPJ) and the National Library of Israel. The exhibition was produced in digital format a year ago within the framework of the European Days of Jewish Culture that are held every year in September throughout Europe. Today it is materialized in the Museum of Jewish History and have been adapted by the Patronat Call de Girona.

The museum adaptation and implementation has been carried out by the designer Roser Bover.