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Benjamin de Tudela. Un viajero en el tiempo

Fotografías de Jesús Álava Sesma

Lugar: Sala Antoni García. Antic Escorxador de Tortosa

Fechas: del 13 de abril al 6 de mayo de 2012

“Benjamín of Tudela A traveler in the time”

In Calahorra

It shows photographic of the countries that visited Benjamín of Tudela in the S. XII

Inauguration with the presence of the author, D. Jesus Álava 

Place:  Room of Expositions of the C/ Mayor, 24

Dates:  From April 15 to May 2, 2011

Hourly: From Tuesday to Saturdays from 18 to 20 h. 

           Sundays and festives from 11.30 to 13.30 h.   

Jewish festivities and traditions

Didactic exhibition

Didactic exhibition about the Jewish festivities and traditions celebrated all year long.

The exhibition introduces the visitor to the organization of the Jewish calendar and shows the main familiar and communal celebrations, depending on the cycle of festivities and the cycle of life.

Prince of Asturias Prizes

Exhibition dedicated to those Jewish celebrities which have been awarded the prize "Prince of Asturias" in the last few years

 

 

A total of 23 awarded people from different fields of comunication and humanities,arts, social sciences, scientific and technical research, letters, concord and international cooperation: George Steiner, Jean Daniel, Maya Plisetskaya, Woddy Allen, Bob Dylan, Óscar Niemeyer, Paul Krugman, Marcos Moshinsky, Judah Folkman, Bert Vogelstein, Roberto Weinberg, Robert Kahn, Emilio Rosenblueth, Arthur Miller, Susan Sontag, Paul Auster, Amos Oz, Yehudi Menuhin, Daniel Barenboim, Yad Vashem, Isaac Rabin or Simone Veil are represented on this exhibition.

CALENDAR 2009

OVIEDO: from November 21st to January 11th
Sala exposiciones Café Español

PLASENCIA: August 15th to October 15th 2009
Centro Cultural Las Claras

More information (PDF file)

PpeAsturias.pdf

Coexistence

Photographies by Andreu Sitjes Tarrés (Girona)

 

 

A startling, graphic report made during the 2006 summer by a photographer from Girona, showing the look on the faces of people trapped in the story of successful and failed relationships between Jews and Palestinians.

CALENDAR 2009

Harmonies of Blue and Ocre

Sample on Sephardic customs through the life and festive cycles, the music and the gastronomy

 

CALENDAR 2009

CÓRDOBA: September 5th to October 31th 2008
Palacio de “El Bailío”. Biblioteca viva de Al Andalus

TUDELA: January 23rd to February 20th
Centro Cultural Castel Ruiz

CALAHORRA: March 11th to April 19th
Sala de exposiciones Calle Mayor 22

OVIEDO: August 5th to September 6th
Sala de exposiciones Auditorio-Palacio de Congresos Príncipe Felipe

GIRONA: October 1st to February 28th 2010
Museum of History of Jewish People

Benjamín de Tudela. A traveler through the time

An exhibition of 52 panels show, from the personal view of Jesús Alava, professional photographer from Tudela, the periplus made by Benjamin of Tudela between 1163-1174

 

 

 

 

Essence of Sepharad

A photographic exhibition by Francisco Sánchez Moreno

 

 

 

 

Symbolic Architectures. The Gates of the Jewry

A voyage through the Spanish jewries

 

 

 

 

The doors, as a physical and symbolical element, have an outstanding meaning in the history, the culture and the life of the Jewish communities which, coming from different places, arrived at the lands of Sepharad.

The exhibition is organised in 3 areas:

Outer doors > doors of life and exile
Doors to the holy areas > doors of the synagogues
Doors to the private areas > doors of the houses

The Secret Of The Books

The hidden documents of the Jews of Girona

 

 

 

Hundreds of Hebrew texts appear inside the covers of medieval books preserved at the Historic Archives of Girona.

Once recovered and restored, these texts will constitute one of the most important sources of medieval manuscripts in Europe.

The online exhibition at http://manuscritshebreus.cultura.gencat.cat/index.php?ln=en