Falkoner films

Sacral buildings gallery

This gallery provides information about the most important sacral buildings in Baja and Subotica: GALLERY

Local turism product workshops

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 workshop series to be held in the forthcoming months.

The first element of the series is the Inventory Workshop soon to be organised in each partner city. These focus on the overview and discussion of local Jewish cultural heritage inventory, the presentation of inspiring case studies from other partner cities and brainstorming of potential local and joint tourism products.

As a second step in the process, Capacity Building Workshops for local tourism development partners empower participants to share ideas, develop joint initiatives and to engage into product development and implementation processes. As participants are selected from authorities, SMEs and the civil sector, the events represent sustainable skill development on both individual, institutional and stakeholder level. The workshops will include the following themes: cooperation skill development, product development methodology and training, business planning methodology training.

Finally, the Match-making Workshop is to be organised in each partner city, involving local stakeholder groups, tourism service providers and related institutions. These professionally mandated moderated events already aim at identifying integrated tourism initiatives and cooperation opportunities among the selected stakeholders, and include the presentation of case studies from other partner cities.

Project partners held local stakeholder meetings within REDISCOVER

In line with the project’s main objective to build on currently undiscovered potential in the Jewish cultural heritage of cities, and develop contemporary tourism solutions, as a start of the thematic activities of the project, a community focused survey of tangible and intangible Jewish heritage portfolios of each participating partner city is to be created. To accomplish it, a participatory approach is applied, with a strong emphasis on local stakeholders’ participation in the process. To mobilize local stakeholders, project partners of the REDISCOVER project held Stakeholder Meetings locally between 1 November 2018 and 20 December 2018.

During the stakeholder meetings local stakeholders had the opportunity to get acquainted with the most important activities, outputs and objectives of the project. Also, the importance of local stakeholder groups, their involvement right from the initial stage was emphasised, and the role stakeholders played during project implementation was outlined as their key members actively taking part in the dissemination of results and multiplying existing knowledge and experience or new ideas.

Among the members of the local stakeholder group a wide range of professionals and stakeholders are represented, including local governments, tourism organizations, experts, local bodies responsible for preserving cultural heritage, representatives of the local chambers of commerce, members and prominent figures of the local Jewish Community. A very first instance of the significance of the local stakeholder group in shaping the project was the role it played in deciding on the theme of Personal History Files, which is a series of social media posts on visions, ambitions and key members of the local stakeholder group. During the local stakeholder meetings an important issue was to determine who the prominent figure to be interviewed should be. Among the interviewees we can find outstanding members of the local Jewish Communities, experts with deep knowledge related to Jewish Cultural Heritage, practicing tourism professionals. The series of video recordings produced under the generic headline „Personal History Files” is going to published through the Facebook profile of the project: https://www.facebook.com/rediscover.interreg/

During the meeting, work started to lay the foundations of the local repository of Jewish Cultural Heritage by discussing methodological aspects. A key issue in it was to determine the main categories along which tangible and intangible heritage elements will be enumerated, and city level inventories shall be compiled. In general, we can find synagogues, cemeteries, other sacral buildings, residential buildings, schools and social institutions among tangible heritage elements, although the main focus is on the intangible, so far hidden cultural heritage elements, like songs, music, dance, literature, cuisine, crafts, sciences, testimonies, oral history, legacy of outstanding personalities. In many cases, a tremendous amount of information is available related to local Jewish Cultural Heritage, which makes an appraisal system to evaluate their tourism potential also necessary. Local repositories will eventually form the basis of a joint, web-based tourism service and attraction portfolio available for the general public.

Public Procurements

Documentations of public procurements are available here:

Public Procurement: Art & Craft – S/3 Nabavka pružaoca usluga prevođenja (15. 05. 2019.)

REDISCOVER started with a project opening conference

The “Rediscover, expose and exploit the concealed Jewish heritage of the Danube Region” DTP2-084-2.2, with the acronym REDISCOVER was allocated 1 569 394,47 EUR within the Danube Transnational Programme. The project is being implemented for 3 years by 18 organizations from 8 countries of the Danube region:

Municipality of Szeged (as the Lead partner); Szeged and Surroundings Tourism Nonprofit Ltd.; Municipality of Galati; Municipality of Timisoara; World Heritage Management City of Regensburg; Institute for Culture, Tourism and Sport Murska Sobota; City of Osijek; Municipal Museum of Subotica; Kotor Municipality; and the City of Banja Luka (as partners).

The partnership is based on the participation of cities and towns which have a similar historical background, Jewish cultural heritage and similar goals for tourism. However, thematic partners who cooperate with the project partners are irreplaceable for the realization of the project, and they are: City of Subotica, City Municipality Murska Sobota, Jewish Community of Szeged, Jewish Community Timisoara, part of Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania, Jewish Community of Osijek, Jewish Community of Montenegro, Jewish Community of Banja Luka, as well as the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities.

The Jewish community is quite fragmented in the Danube region nowadays. Capitals and larger regional centres have significant residual communities which play an important role in the preservation of the Jewish religious and cultural heritage. The main challenge for medium sized cities which are famous heritage centres on the tourism market is to discover the elements of tangible and intangible Jewish heritage in order to create competitive cultural products with potential tourism prospects.

The rediscovery of the Jewish cultural heritage within the project means that besides tangible elements that are well-known to the wide audience (synagogues, cemeteries, memorials, public/ business/residential buildings) which can be organised into creative attractions, to include and integrate intangible elements usually not recognised by the mainstream community and visitors. Such elements are music and literature, religion and festivals, traditions and lifestyle, cuisine and local recipes, oral history, photo collections, legacy of famous locally born Jewish personalities, arts, events. This project would like to contribute to the creation of competitive advantages for cities with otherwise scarce Jewish cultural heritage attractions.

The main objective of the project is to explore, revive and present the hidden intellectual heritage along with locally available Jewish cultural heritage sites in project partner cities. That will be the base for creation of a jointly presented synergistic tourism tool/service that is accessible to the wide audience as well.

The REDISCOVER project’s launching conference and kick-off meeting was held by the Lead Partner in Szeged on 5-6th July at IH Event Centre. After the opening addresses Hungarian lecturers gave inspiring and high quality presentations to the audience. László Marjanucz, PhD from University of Szeged was talking about the concrete historical processes of the coexistence and joint urban development of various Jewish groups of Szeged, from Norbert Glässer, PhD, also from the University of Szeged, along with András Zima, from the Budapest University of Jewish Studies, gave a presentation about changing Jewish community life, inherited cultural products, roles in local social development. Last, but not least, Krisztina Frauhammer’s (University of Szeged) lecture elaborated on the representation of intangible heritage in written sources of Judaism of the Danube Region.

After the launching conference, the event continued with the kick-off meeting organised only for the project partners. This was the first time when the partners have met and had a chance to get to know each other better in person and create a friendly working environment. Partners got acquainted with the detailed concept, purpose and implementation rules of the project. The 36 moth-long project ends on 31 May 2021.

Event’s Calendar

Educational programs

The science communication activities for primary school children on the exhibition of Buda painter Francis Falkoner (1737–1792)

Seminars

10^th May, 2018, Subotica
Professional seminar for restorers on Baroque ecclesiastic paintings in the exhibition of Buda painter Francis Falkoner (1737–1792) in the Municipal Museum of Subotica (Trg sinagoge 3, Subotica)

Lectures:
Zsuzsanna Korhecz Papp: Restoration of Baroque ecclesiastic paintings
Olivera Brdarić: Restoration of András Hadik’s portrait

3th October, 2018, Baja

Professional seminar for restorers in Baja

Lecture:
Zsuzsanna Korhecz Papp: “Conservator in Action” – live restauration of altar paintig Francis Falkoner: St. Claire, 1756 from Piliscsaba.

Press Conferences

1st Press Conference

6th March 2018, Baja
Presenting the project “Together for Common Future of Common Cultural Heritage” which is implemented through the Interreg-IPA CBC Hungary-Serbia Programme and co-financed by the European Union.Main objective of the Project is to strengthen the cultural heritage cooperation between three professional institutes for sustainable use of built heritage of Cross Border Region.

Host of the press conference:
Mr. Róbert Zsigó, Member of Parliament of Baja and the region

The project is presented by:
Ms. Zita N. Kovács, project manager of Lead Beneficiary, director of Türr István Museum, Baja
Mr. István Hulló, director of Municipial Museum in Subotica
Dr. Leda Silling, director of Inter-municipal Institute for Heritage Protection, Subotica

2nd Press Conference

15th March 2019, Subotica
The ceremonial handover of altar painting (Károly Jakobey: Pietá, 1877)
The altar painting of the Calvary-chapel was destroyed in 1999 during a vandal break in. As a gift from the Municipal Museum of Subotica, Zsuzsanna Papp Korhecz restored the greatly dameged oil painting.