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

It is with our deepest sorrow that we inform you of the passing of Aunt Szidi, our beloved member of the Jewish Community in Szeged. Aunt Szidi, the former head of the Jewish Nursing Home in Szeged was 95 years old. Mrs Szidónia Krausz Herman...

The Rediscover partnership held its usual half-yearly partner meeting in Banja Luka in February. Originally the meeting was planned to be a two-day meeting, but since the project arrived at the most crucial phase of implementation, the...

The Neolog Synagogue of Fabric District Timișoara, was built in the year 1898, by the prosperous local Jewish Community of the town quarter, which at that time declared itself as a Status Quo Ante Community. This meant that they did not want to...

Since 2020 marks the 160th anniversary of Lipót Baumhorn's birth, we would like to commemorate his work with a series of posts. During this year we will introduce his synagogues and most famous residential and commercial buildings. Lipót...

On Sunday, January 26, upon the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Jewish Community of Osijek organised the lecture and presentation of life and work of Otti Berger, a famous Croatian Bauhaus designer of Jewish origin, born...

On 15th January Lead Partner of the Rediscover project visited the Holocaust Memorial Center that is one of the few institutions in the world, established by the state that focuses entirely on Holocaust research and education. You can learn more...

On 9 December Ruth Ellen Gruber the coordinator of the Jewish Heritage Europe portal was our guest in Szeged. She told us it was quite a while since she had been to Szeged, but it was good to be back. We walk around the city center on our way to...

Pictures from the black box – hiding photos of Judit Kárászare displayed in 2B Galery in Budapest (47 Ráday Str., distr. IX.) until December 23. Little is known about Judit Kárász’s outstanding work as a sociophotographer; however, her legacy...

The following partner meeting was held in Osijek. Rediscover partnership made progress implementing the activities. And beside all of our thematic work the project's first year review was also delivered by the JS. Our controller was satisfied...

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...