Sessions (October 19-November 8) have been focused on study of the various types of Cultural Heritage of Judaism, mainly in the Ancient and Medieval ages. The seminar has been organized awarded by the Professor Nuria Morère Molinero (Ancient History area) and Esther Bendahán Cohen (Director of Culture at the Centro Sefarad Israel Madrid), For students of the Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Tourism at the URJC. The target was to get one first approach to a cultural heritage whose continuity was broken at the end of the XNUMXth century and who is currently living a process of recovery and valorization for society and for tourism.
La first session took place in the Sepharad Israel Center of Madrid with the intervention of Esther Bendahán “Intangible heritage of Judaism: the Mediterranean languages (Ladino and Jaquetía) as a case study”. In it, the main questions for the study of the spruceor, Spanish than the Jews (sephardic) expelled in the XNUMXth century made them survive in the different communities that were established in the Mediterranean, Balkans, Middle East and North Africa, where the Jaquetia dialect would particularly develop (northern Morocco). He spruce has already begun proceedings to be recognized as Intangible Heritage by UNESCO.
In second session, which was held in Vicalvaro Campus, the different problems posed by the archaeological heritage of Judaism in Spain, both in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages. He was in charge of the professors Nuria Morère Molinero and Helena Domínguez del Triunfo (Ancient History area) and former student of the Double Degree in Economics and History and actually, student of the Master in History and Sciences of Antiquity (UAM-UCM) Lucía Sánchez-Mur. In it, the scarce archaeological and epigraphic remains, their problems, the doubts they raise, but also the opportunities study that they offer to learn about this historical stage in the Peninsula.
La third session was in charge of Uriel Macías (Isaac Abranavel Center), collaborating professor at the URJC and spoke about him bibliographic and documentary heritage of the Jews in Spain. It explained the development of manuscripts and the first printing presses in Hebrew that were created, taking into account the relevance that written culture had for the Jews as part of their liturgy, as well as the relevance of the private documents. This conference came to complete, on the other hand, the exhibition that the students visited on documentation of the Geniza of Cairo, currently in the Sefarad Israel Center.
La last session, in the Quintana Campus, consisted of a round table and discussion group on “Heritages of Judaism: protection and conservation. “Tourism as a tool.” The professors Laura Fuentes Moraleda (Faculty of Sciences and Business Economics of the URJC), Silvia Aulet (professor at the University of Girona), Sergio Ortega (Head of the Heritage Protection Service and European Programs for the Management and Coordination of Cultural Assets of the Ministry of Culture), Victor Sorenssen, Director of the European Association for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage (AEPJ), as well as Javier Llorca (tourist informant in Granada and former student of the Master in International Tourism Management at the URJC) and Selene Simón (cultural guide and doctoral student in Tourism at the UCLM). In this session the problem of scarcity of “visible” remains of the Sephardic horizon behind the destruction of much of the heritage for the historical-political future of Spain. In addition, Tourism revitalization models were proposed to publicize this heritage, often invisible and invisible., But fundamental to understanding the cultural history of the country, through its influence on art, language, cuisine, music, theater o performing Arts.
In all sessions, emphasis was also placed on the possibilities of heritage as an important element of cultural dialogue and for the society of the future, a role in which the UNESCO. The seminar has also served to work from an interdisciplinary perspective where the dialogue between history, archeology and cultural tourism is essential.
Photographs: in the first photo, a children's alphabet in the Sefarad Center exhibition; in the second photo, the former student Lucía Sánchez-Mur; in the third photo, teacher Helena Domínguez del Triunfo; In the fourth photo, attendees on the Quintana campus.