Annual International Conference on Jewish Heritage - Part of the World and National Heritage Bucharest, May 28-29, 2009
The University of Bucharest and the Goldstein Goren Center for Hebrew Studies invite you to the annual international conference on Jewish Heritage – Part of the World and National Heritage. Proeminent scholars from Romania and abroad (Israel, France, Hungary, Turkey) will lecture and debate on the Jewish intellectual heritage - its influence on local and world culture and the current state of rehabilitation, restauration and conservation options; a special panel will be dedicated to the Jewish monuments of worship – synagogues and their art.
The event is open to the public and will take place on May 28-29, 2009, at the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest (5-7 Edgar Quinet St., room 120 and Council Hall).
On the occasion of the conference, the photo-documentary exhibition Colours of Time: The Synagogues of Moldova, belonging to the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv, will be on display.
The photographs presented in the exhibition are the work of Teodor Răileanu, a journalist and a photographer. These photographs were taken in the spring of 2007, during the trip for the research of synagogues in Romanian Moldova, in which he accompanied dr. Ilia Rodov, lecturer at the Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University. This tour was part of a research project supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute in Israel.
