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The institution over which I preside, is
interested in realising the potential of the cultural legacy of
Aragonese Jewry and take it to the level it de-serves historically.
With that goal in sight we want to create a network of Juderias
(Medieval Jewish Quarters) offering itineraries that show the
richness and variety of the culture by means of actions in the
following fields: signalisation, recuperation and patrimonial
restoration, publishing of guides, opening of centres of
interpretation (Tarazona, Ejea and Biel), a great exhibition in the
Sastago Palace about Jewish Aragon, database with the genealogic
lines, etc. In sum, a reencounter with our roots and welcoming home
all the Sephardic communities spread all over the world, who will
always have in Aragon and in our hearts their home, the motherland
of rights and coexistence.
Javier Lambán Montañés
President of Provincial Diputation of Zaragoza
This new initiative should be a message of
hope, to achieve from Aragon the opening of our doors from the
inside, for the “Tornator” (the return) of the descendants of the
Jews who lived in our common land for them to discover and link with
their roots, authentic and unknown. Without any doubt this
undertaking represents the selfless work of many people who believe
that the expulsion of the Jews of Sepharad, their home, was a
terrible historical mistake. We hope that the ways of cultural
tourism will help a re-encounter for a peaceful, fruitful future
coexistence of these two peoples with the same roots : the Jews and
the Aragonese.
Javier Bona López
Director of “Space Sepharad-Aragon"
Aragon keeps infinite secrets of its Jewish
inheritance as treasures inside thousands of documents in its many
archives and in the physical existence of its many Jewish Quarters,
which shelter the geography in zigzag of the medieval streets, the
architecture of its houses and the living testimony of synagogues
and cemeteries. The scientific team guarantees a most rigurous
endeavour, supported on the written and archeological sources, that
is and will continue to be undertaken, in order to preserve the
fidelity and the historical memory. In this land of the Three
Religions of the Book, the traveller as well as the scholar will
find a great effort to recover the Jewish imprint in its purest and
genuine state, in a fascinating trip to the Middle Ages.
Miguel Angel Motis Dolader
Scientific Director of “Space Sepharad-Aragon”
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