The results of our work are our realized projects.
Successful realization is a strong motivation for us to create new and
more interesting ones.
Some projects we have already finished or we are preparing:
EUROPEAN DAY OF JEWISH CULTURE 2004
JOY
HERITAGE
TOMORROW
THE GATE
HAZMANA
SPARKLE
EUROPEAN DAY OF JEWISH CULTURE 2004
The European Day of Jewish Culture took place on 5th September 2004 in Slovakia.
Program of the day:
Bratislava - Museum of Jewish Culture :
- 11:00-17:00: Free entrance to the Museum
- 10:00 - 12:00: Sightseeing with expertise explanation of the rabbi J. Steiner
- 15:00: Slovak National Museum presentation - Museum of Jewish Culture in Bratislava, Prof. Mestan - director of the Museum; Concert of Klezmer Band Panonia from Budapest
- 16:00: Maros Borsky, Curator for Slovak Jewish Heritage: „Jewish Heritage in Slovakia“
- 13:00-17:00: Professor Peter Konya: title of talk to be annonced
- 15:30: Free entrance to the exhibition of the Museum of Jewish Culture; tour by Viera Kamenicka
- 14:00-18:30: Free entrance to the Museum
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JOY
date 5/2000 – 10/2000
The ateration
of the yard in front of the daily home care center The House of Golden
Age. The aim of this project was to renovate the pavement, repair the
canalization, grass the soil over, plant some trees, cultivate the soil.
This project was funded by the Health Fund of the city Kosice and the
Jewish Community of Kosice.
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HERITAGE
date 2.-3. 9. 2000
The
aim of this project was to help to handle negative manifestations in the
society as discrimination, intolerance, anti-Semitism, xenophobia. Also
the Slovak Assembly of Jewish Women took place at the same time, with
the attendance of the president of the International Council of Jewish
Women June Jacobs and foreign guests from the Czech republic, Hungary,
Israel, Great Britain, Yugoslavia, Switzerland and Italy.
The celebratory cultural evening with east – Slovakian national songs
and dances took place on September 2nd in Sena near Kosice. Guests
of the next day also attended this happening.
The Gala program Heritage took place on September 3rd. Mr. Peter
Rasev directed the panel discussion of the program. The artists who contributed
to the cultural program were actors of the Old City Theatre, the choir
of the State Theatre, artists of Romathan, the dancing group Bat Jam and
others. The Gala program was also the finale of the Jewish Women’ s Assembly.
This project was financially supported by the International Council
of Jewish Women.
Not at all less important donors were the
Slovak savings bank, the
City of Kosice and the Ministry of Culture of Slovakia.
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TOMORROW
date 6.9.2000 – 32.5.2001
This project was financially supported by the NPOA
– The Foundation for the support of civic activities. The content
of this project were:
a
social and cultural evening with the presentation of Jewish traditions
and food the seminar and the conference of Jewish women in Israel with
the title „A New Agenda for Gender, Woman’s Leadership“. The president
of the association Dr. Marta Gyoriova attended- the concert of the Jewish Klezmer Band from Bratislava
- the assembly of women in Bratislava with the aim to inform about the seminar in Israel and about the results of the Conference of ICJW
- a forum with the survivors of the Holocaust and Hidden Children
- a celebratory social evening – Evening of Tolerance to celebrate the Year against discrimination
- a forum and lectures with PhDr. Pojar, the director of the Jewish educational center in Prague to the theme: Israel and the present peace process
- thematically – educational trip to Huncovce
- a commemorative meeting in Poprad to the 59th anniversary of the first transports to concentration camps
- a forum with a lecture to the theme: ”The history of Jews in Presov and Kosice”, by PhDr. Konya
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THE
GATE
date 1.6.2001 – 30.9.2001
This project
was financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of Slovakia,
by financial gifts from our friends from Slovakia and from abroad and
from ICJW and JOINT. The most valuable, most highly rated
and most interesting part of the project GATE were the days from 9/9/2001
to 9/13/2001.
On 9/9/2001 we commemorated the Day of Holocaust and racial hatred
on the memorable site in Kremnicka. This event was held under auspices
of the President of Slovakia, Mr. Rudolf Schuster.
The association Ester opened on 9/10/2001
the Days of Jewish Culture in the Concert Hall of Kosice. Many
citizens of Kosice, members of ecumenical and religious societies, rabbi
Steiner, representatives of the city, of cultural and social organizations
and churches attended the cultural program. Those who attended saw the
very highly rated exhibition of photographs and show windows to the theme
Jewish history of Kosice and surroundings. This exhibition was created
together with the Kosice’ s civic club, which markedly enriched and contributed
to the success of this event. The guests had the chance to hear a concert
of liturgical songs in Yiddish, by the main cantor of the Dohany synagogue
in Budapest, Mr. Fekete Laszlo accompanied by piano.
On 9/11/2001 the concert of the band ESTER from Prague took place.
On 9/12/2001 the puppet theatre Feigele, under the artistic
leading of Vida Neuwirth performed in the GES club. The title of the performance
was Jonah and those others, or how was it to live in a whale and not only
about that. The performance by its resourcefulness and fantasy caught
the interest of the smallest resourcefulness spectator, but it also was
a cultural and artistic experience for all age groups.
The last performance of the Days of Jewish Culture took place on 9/13/2001
by the presentation of short documentary films from the archives of the
Museum of Jewish Culture in Bratislava.
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HAZMANA
Hazmana
means knowledge in Hebrew. This project was realized with the cooperation
of the Public Library of j. Boccatio in Kosice. It contains a cycle
of lectures and expositions about the life and history of the Jewish citizens
of Kosice, its surroundings and the whole of Slovakia.
The presented themes were:
- Kosice’ s personalities of Jewish heritage
- Architectonic Jewish monuments
- The Jewish year
- Jewish cemeteries and others...
The attendance on the lectures on these and other topics was over expected. Lectures and forums were very popular by the readers and other visitors. The project was made by the public library of J. Boccatio in Kosice with the financial support of the Open Society Foundation.
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SPARKLE
date 15/11/2001 – 31/10/2002
Aims of this project are to pursue maximum effort to create a tolerant
society without prejudice, trying to prevent the propagation of untruthful
myths and legends about the Jewish minority. Association Ester
will focus not only to keep the traditions of Judaism, but also
on the education of the public and mainly youth by efficient forms and
methods. The association wants to reach this by providing appropriate
literature, informative materials, learning texts, audio-visual materials
and by personal presentation. Using these means the association wants
to facilitate the increase of the knowledge about Jewish traditions, culture,
history and religion to applicants from the public, pedagogic workers
and students. This project will also create conditions for a valuable
development of the association Ester.
The association Ester wants to have an ongoing active cooperation
with other minorities and to integrate them also to the process of the
changes of attitudes of the society to the Jewish minority. The association
is trying to contribute to the decrease of minority and racial discrimination,
intolerance, anti-Semitism and xenophobia.
Prospective financial sources to this project are grants from NPOA,
The Rich Foundation Tel Aviv, International Council of Jewish
Women, Jewish Agency, Foundation Ezra and other donors
from Slovakia and abroad.
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