The aim of the project is to create a centrally coordinated and methodically managed network of ten regional cultural and educational centers of Jewish culture, which will showcase the unique cultural heritage of the Czech Republic. Regional centers of Jewish culture will be created in seven regions in the following locations: Úštěk, Jičín, Brandýs nad Labem, Plzeň, Březnice, Nová Cerekev, Polná, Boskovice, Mikulov and Krnov. The project is co-financed by the EU and the European Fund for Regional Development.
The main goals of the European Route of Jewish Heritage are to preserve, to promote and to keep alive Jewish heritage, to set up cultural routes, tourism and social development around these sites and to make Europeans aware of the cultural richness brought to Europe by the Jews.
The Cultural Routes programme was launched by the Council of Europe in 1987 with the Declaration of Santiago de Compostela.
Over 31 Cultural Routes in 2018, of the Council of Europe provide a wealth of leisure and educational activities for all citizens across Europe and beyond. They cover a range of different themes, from architecture and landscape to religious influences, from gastronomy and intangible heritage to the major figures of European art, music and literature.
Exhibition of photographs showing places where Jewish synagogues stood in the past. The contours of these buildings are engraved in paper.
Minisérie fotografických portrétů představí příběhy několika československých pilotů a mechaniků, kteří působili v izraelské armádě v době vzniku Státu Izrael a kteří se zde natrvalo usadili.
Výstava je doplněna historickými předměty, zapůjčenými muzeem E. Helda v Zákupech.
Jewish cemeteries in Jaroslav Guth's Photographs
Výstava zapůjčená Národním archivem v Praze představuje soubor neobyčejné hodnoty, podávající spolehlivý obraz vnitřního rozvoje sídel a jejich topografii a dokumentující mimo jiné hospodářský a sociální stav židovského obyvatelstva v českých zemích.
Exhibition by Dusan Scholtz
The exhibition was created to remember the 30th anniversary of the restoration of diplomatic relations between the former Czechoslovakia and the State of Israel.
Can you name ten plagues of Egypt? Do you know where the Jews were in slavery, how long they wandered in the desert and what happened during that time? You will find answers to all these questions and many more at the exhibition, which tells the story of the Passover Haggadah.
Overview of cultural programs for June 2023
Program of concerts which will take place in the synagogue from June to September 2023. Admission is voluntary.
Concert in the synagogoue
Lecture by Maria Wetteri held in Jewish Municipal House
The group Neshama (The Soul) will perform a mixture of Jewish folk music and contemporary Israeli songs in the synagogue in Úštěk.
Entrance fee 90CZK
Concert by Dominika Weiss Hošková and Jiří Hošek