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Monday, September 2, 2024

The Museum of Jewish History will celebrate the European Days of Jewish Culture this September

This year's edition, which started yesterday, has as its motto "Family" and a total of 37 European countries are participating

The Museum of Jewish History (Patronat Call de Girona) will participate this September in the European Days of Jewish Culture (JECJ) with a programme of free activities designed for all audiences. This year's edition, which will run until November, has the motto "Family" and a total of 37 European countries are participating.

In Girona, the proposals will begin this week. The Museum of Jewish History has prepared a set of three activities to bring the history of Jewish families that during the Middle Ages were part of the social and urban structure of our city closer to the public. These groups contributed to enriching its history and culture through the contribution of diversity.

The first activity will be on Tuesday 3 September, at 7 pm, at the Call de Girona, with a reading club on the book Family Lexicon, by Natàlia Gizburg, led by Joan Cardona. The proposals will continue on Thursday, September 5, at 9 pm, with a concert by Tati Cervià and the Sepharazz Mishpaha trio at the Museum of Jewish History. The group has reharmonized Sephardic melodies and poetry to bring them closer to a modern language, and will offer several songs with rhythmic richness, leading them towards a sound that fuses these beats and the typical patterns of traditional music with jazz.

On Saturday, September 21, at 10.30 am, in the same Museum, there will be a dramatized visit "Un bany d'històries per descobrir la vida al Call medieval", by La Minúscula. The story revolves around the story of Estelina, a Jewish woman who lived in the Jewish quarter of Girona in the mid-15th century. Her tombstone and some documents tell us about her private life and family environment.

This visit will be the public presentation of the "Scenarios of the History of Catalonia" project, of which the Museum of Jewish History is a part. The initiative, produced by the Network of Museums of History and Monuments of Catalonia, uses historical and cultural dissemination to tell the history of Catalonia through the museums and monuments that make up the Network.

Finally, on Saturday 5 October, at 10.30 am, the activity "Un passeig pels tresors de la Meirona", run by Tretze Cultura, will close this year's programme in the city. It is a journey through the imaginary life of Meirona, a girl who lived six hundred years ago in the Jewish quarter of Girona where she kept some special objects in a box, which we found hidden behind a wall of the Museum.

The EDJC were launched in 1999 by the Patronat Call de Girona, with the aim of highlighting the diversity and richness of Judaism and its historical importance. Since then, they have been held annually and in coordination with other cities in the territory and have become an initiative of international scope.