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Sefarad Lights' illuminates the Jewish background of the Region of Murcia] | In the exhibition, which will be exhibited in Madrid and New York after visiting Murcia, was able to discover the oldest parts of a synagogue lamp |
The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, accompanied by the Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, the mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, and one of the curators of the show, Angel Iniesta, today announced the exhibition 'Lorca.
Sefarad Lights', which can be visited in the Archaeological Museum from 29 January to 12 April, and to "shed light on the evolution of Jewish culture in the Region of Murcia."
"The importance of this exhibition is, beyond the contents, in which the region is expressed and is found as a Jewish region," said Cruz, who explained that, in recent decades, "we have much information about Roman civilization, Arabic and Christian through the archaeological remains, but had characterized the multicultural dimensions of the region did not know, as in the Jewish world. "
The counselor called this exhibition project "ambitious", as a result of "significant findings being made in the neighborhood of Alcalá de Lorca, which have enabled a fairly thorough than it was the Jewish quarter and, by extension, what which was the world and the Jewish culture in the Region of Murcia. "
The exhibition is the result of efforts by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism for bringing the results of the excavations to society and provide the correct dimension of knowledge of our past and recognition of diversity as the basis of our regional identity.
The sample will nurture the most significant parts and materials found in the Jewish quarter and Synagogue, preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Lorca, along with original documents from the Municipal Archives of Lorca and Murcia, facsimiles of the National Archives General de Simancas, and Roman era parts found in the coastal cities of Cartagena, Aguilas and Puerto de Mazarrón, from the Archaeological Museums of these locations.
The pieces are displayed in five sections: 'The Jews in Spain: from its origins to his expulsion', 'The border town of Lorca', 'Lorca castellated Jewry', 'Janukká, the festival of lights', and' Lorca's synagogue. "
In addition, the exhibition includes the virtual reconstruction of the Jewish quarter and its synagogue.
Pedro Alberto Cruz said that "all parts that are included in the catalog are original, and many of them have the distinction of being unique, the absence of similar objects found at other sites.
In addition, some shown for the first time the public. "
Among the 20 pieces exhibited glass lamps that lit the synagogue of Lorca, and are "the oldest in the world" specified Cruz.
In addition, several fragments of plasterwork adorning the wall 'aron-ha-qodesh' of this building, tiles, coins, ceramics that depict daily life in the late Middle Ages, various pieces to commemorate the Jewish holiday of 'Janukká' and interesting manuscripts that reflect the activities of the Jews who were part of the society of Lorca in the fifteenth century.
Itinerant
After the display of Murcia, the show will go to the 'Casa Sefarad Israel' in Madrid and then travel to the 'American Sephardi' in New York.
For the dissemination of the exhibition will be available websites www.lightofsephard.com and www.lightofsephard.es , English, and www.lucesdesefard.com and www.lucesdesefrad.es , in Spanish, where will the links with exposure-related institutions, as well as provide a forum for site news and media and advertising the event.
This portal can also be viewed and downloaded the catalog of the exhibition.
Source: CARM. Fotos: Ayto. Lorca y CARM
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