Dear Friends,
On behalf of the Hagadá Association, responsible for the installation and management of the Tikvá Museu Judaico Lisboa, I am pleased to present you the first issue of the Newsletter that every month will communicate the progress of the preparation of the Tikvá.
Our aim is to allow everyone interested in our work to follow its progress regularly but also contribute with ideas, suggestions and donations, be they of pieces, testimonies, personal and family stories, as well as from a financial point of view. 
The Newsletter will approach the significant events of the moment, the holidays of the Jewish and Portuguese calendar, suggestions for bibliography and filmography and others. 

It will also reflect the mission of the Tikvá Museu Judaico Lisboa: to make known in Portugal and internationally the history of the Portuguese Jews, a long history of about two thousand years and a plurality of cultures, unfortunately still quite unknown today. 
We believe that through the knowledge of this history, it will be more clearly understood how pluralism and religious, ethnic and cultural dialogue represent an essential contribution to any society. 
And that is also what we intend with this Newsletter: a free and open dialogue about the Museum's mission, answering your doubts, questions, suggestions and ideas.
We hope you enjoy it!

Esther Mucznik
President
Associação Hagadá – Tikvá Museu Judaico Lisboa

EXHIBITION

The Portuguese Jewish Diaspora

The Hagadá Association, responsible for installing and managing the Tikvá Museu Judaico Lisboa in Lisbon, has joined the prestigious Paris-based publisher Chandeigne in the Portuguese version of the exhibition "The Portuguese Jewish Diaspora". Authored by the researcher Livia Parnes, the exhibition evokes a theme that the Tikvá Museu Judaico will also address in detail, with expressive objects of a time when the contribution of those exiled by the Portuguese Inquisition played a decisive role on a global scale, in the field of culture, trade and within Judaism itself.
Besides having travelled through various cultural institutions in France, the exhibition has already been on show, from 12 to 29 October 2022, in Lisbon, at the Palácio Galveias Library, and from 10 to 24 May 2023, at the Covilhã Museum. During the next few months, it will travel to the Museum of Damião de Góis and of the Victims of the Inquisition, in Alenquer, the Leonel Trindade Municipal Museum, in Torres Vedras, and the Jewish Memory Centre of Vila Cova à Coelheira, in Vila Nova de Paiva. 
If you are interested in receiving this exhibition, please contact us by e-mail.

ONLINE EVENT

The Museum before the Museum

The Tikvá Museu Judaico Lisboa is currently in its constitution stage but wished to celebrate the International Museum Day with an online event. While the walls of the Museum are not built, the collection is being formed. How do the objects arrive at the Museum? What are these objects? What stories do they tell? In this session, the Tikvá team talked about this work of selection, research and conservation of the collection, unveiling a little of what our Museum, its mission and its collections will be.
Watch here.

LECTURE
Theology Faculty of the Portuguese Catholic University

At the invitation of Luísa Almendra, director of the Chair of Jewish and Christian Biblical Studies | Abravanel-De Góis at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Portugal, Esther Mucznik, president of the Hagadá Association, and Ângela Ferraz, collection manager of the Tikvá Museu Judaico Lisboa, held a lecture on 15 May, during which they presented the project of the Museum. In a very participative session, students learned about the mission and objectives of Tikvá and discovered the history of the Tikvá collection and its donors.

PRIZE
14th International Peace Prize “Dresden Prize”

Daniel Libeskind, the architect responsible for the architectural project of the future Tikvá Museu Judaico Lisboa, was honoured with the 14th International Peace Prize “Dresden Prize” on 19 February 2023.
His major projects include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York and, most recently, the Museum of Military History in Dresden. Watch Daniel Libeskind's interview here.

JEWISH CULTURE

Shavuot

Shavuot, the Festival of Weeks, is the second pilgrim festival. It is also the second of the three major festivals with both historical and agricultural significance (the other two are Passover and Sukkot): it marks the time when the first fruits were harvested and brought to the Temple; and, historically, it commemorates God's giving of the Torah to the People of Israel, through Moses, seven weeks after the exodus from Egypt. The faithfulness of the sons of Israel to the Torah is thus celebrated, as is their voluntary acceptance of the ethical code represented by the Ten Commandments.
In the synagogue, the Ten Commandments and the story of Ruth, the non-Jewish Moabitess, the emblematic figure of this feast, are read. On the death of her husband, Ruth decides to adopt Judaism and remain faithful to it until the end, telling her mother-in-law, "where you will go, I will go; where you will rest, I will rest; your people shall be my people, your God, my God; and where you will die, I will die...".

PAINTING
Rabbi and Student
Adolf Adler. Oil on canvas. 20th century. Tikvá Museu Judaico Lisboa collection. 

In Rabbi and Student, a rabbi with a long white beard, glasses and black kipá has next to him, on his left side, a young student in white kipá. Both are looking down at an open book in front of them on the table. The rabbi has his left hand on the student's left shoulder, and he holds a pen in his closed right hand. The background is neutral in shades of red, blue and grey.

"You shall teach them to your children" (Deuteronomy 11:19). Teaching the Torah to offspring, the sole guarantor of the continuity of tradition, is considered a primary duty for every Jew. The Talmud differentiates between the wise student (talmid, pl., talmidim) and the uneducated ('am ha-aretz), and sees true nobility in knowledge, hence the importance of a system of knowledge transmission: the Yeshibah (or, Yeshivah or Yeshiva) a generic term designating either a master with whom one lives and studies, or an institution with its own organisation, rules and customs. It is the reputation of the master (Rosh Yeshivah), with whom the student will be in permanent contact (shimmush talmid hakham), which governs the choice of the place of study.

Adolf Adler (Romania, 1917 - Israel, 1996) was a Romanian Jewish painter known for his paintings of gendered figures and landscapes and his painful Holocaust images in oil, watercolour, acrylic, charcoal and felt-tipped pens.
He was born in the former Hungarian town of Satu-Mare in northern Transylvania (now Romania) on the eve of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He began painting at a young age and moved with his family in 1936 to Cluj (now Cluj-Napoca), where he studied painting with Professor Mohi Sandor (1902-1974).
During the Second World War, Adler was deported by the Hungarians in 1942 to a forced labour camp in Ukraine. Fleeing to Russia in 1944, he was arrested by the Soviets. After his release in 1945, he returned to Cluj, Romania, where he studied at the University of Art and Design. Between 1852 and 1858, he was an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1963 he immigrated to Israel. In 1978 he won the Nordau Prize for Art of the Association of Hungarian Emigrants.

Get to know the Tikvá Museu Judaico Lisboa

In Lisbon, in the Belém area, the Jewish Museum will be born. With an architectural project by Daniel Libeskind, who has designed famous Jewish museums all over the world, the Museum will show the History of the Portuguese Jews, the Jewish religious culture, the periods of coexistence and tolerance, the contributions to science, economy and culture of Portugal, the persecutions, the Diaspora, the return after the end of the Inquisition.
The name of the Museum will be Tikvá which means "hope" and aims to show how Jewish history is an inseparable part of Portuguese History.

David Harris
AJC - American Jewish Committee 

During a quick visit to Portugal, David Harris, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, AJC, took the opportunity to learn more about the Tikvá Museu Judaico de Lisboa project and made a public appeal for support for its construction. 
With no family roots in Portugal, David Harris shared that, during World War II, his mother's family was one of many who passed through Lisbon, fleeing from the Nazis, and it was from here that they embarked for New York.

Jewish presence in Coimbra

The Jewish presence in Coimbra is illustrated and documented in the exhibition "Jews of Coimbra, from Tolerance to Persecution, Memories and Materialities".

CONFERENCES

The AEJM - Association of European Jewish Museum Annual Conference 2023 will occur from 4 to 6 June 2023. The conference will be held at the Jewish Museum Berlin and the New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum Foundation in Berlin, and the Tikvá Museu Judaico Lisboa, as a member of the AEJM, will be present.
The live broadcast will start on 4 June 2023 at 14:00 here.
More information is available here.

CONFERENCES   

The V International Colloquium Luso-Sephardic Dialogues will take place in Castelo de Vide on 9 and 10 November 2023.
These colloquiums are cultural events that seek to offer proximity bridges between university research and local communities, open to scientific reflection and dialogue, to the sharing and dissemination of research results, to the knowledge and encounter of the history of the Sephardic presence, especially in the territories of Lusophony, but also in its manifestations of cross-border and multicultural diasporas.
More information is available here.

BOOKS  

Adolfo Kaminsky: O Falsificador (2020)
by Sarah Kaminsky. Bertrand Editora.

Adolfo Kaminsky, a Russian Jew with Argentinian nationality, was 17 years old when he was evicted from his home with his family and sent to the Drancy concentration camp. His Argentinian passports would guarantee the Kaminsky family release from the camp, saving them, in a matter of hours, from deportation to Auschwitz.
Already scheduled to escape from France, Kaminsky is recruited by the 6th, the secret arm of the UGIF, where he would become the youngest forger in the service of the French Resistance and where his work would guarantee safe conduct to thousands of Jews in the last years of the Second World War.

BOOKS

Judeus Portugueses - Uma História de Luz e Sombra (2021)
by Esther Mucznik. Editora Manuscrito.

What does the history of almost two thousand years of Jewish presence in the territory that is now Portugal tell us?
Portuguese Judaism results from a long history: sometimes tragic, other times more serene, but always very rich.
As financiers and doctors, philosophers and exegetes, mathematicians and astronomers, the Jews contributed to Portugal's economic, cultural, scientific and philosophical development.
But this contribution was more significant in the same measure as the freedom, tolerance and social and political interaction between different peoples.
The life of Portuguese Jews is, therefore, inseparable from the history of Portugal. In this book, Esther Mucznik, a writer and chronicler specialized in Jewish themes, crosses Jewish history and Portuguese history in moments, episodes and specific personalities that demonstrate this intimate relationship, a relationship made of coexistence and persecution, love and hate, banishment and homesickness, reunion and reconciliation... of light and shade.
A journey through two millennia. A Jewish history, but also a Portuguese history.

BOOKS    

Judeus Marroquinos de Cabo Verde. Século XIX (2023)
by Ângela Benoliel Coutinho e José Alberto Tavim, coord. by Carol Castiel. Ediçoes Colibri.

Why would Jews from Morocco, where they have lived for over 2000 years, and Sephardites found refuge from the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition, leave for Portuguese territory in the 19th century, specifically Cape Verde?
Moroccan Jews arrived in Cape Verde and other Portuguese territories after 1821, when the Inquisition was abolished, overcoming religious persecution.
The book explores the many other factors that led some Jews to sail to the then-Portuguese colony of Cape Verde.
The role of tiny but influential British Gibraltar is also highlighted in Judeus Marroquinos de Cabo Verde: Século XIX.

ARTICLES

National Day for Religious Freedom and Inter-religious Dialogue
Law No 16/2001 of 22 June

On 22 June, the National Day of Religious Freedom and Interreligious Dialogue is celebrated, established by the Resolution of the Assembly of the Republic No.86-A/2019, approved unanimously. This day marks the fudamental importance of religious freedom and, in turn, of freedom of conscience, religion and worship, thus contributing to an awareness on the central place that these values and practices occupy in the democratic and tolerant society that we want to be.
More information is available here.

MUSEUMS

Casa da Inquisição de Castelo de Vide
Rua Nova, 27, 7320-199 Castelo de Vide

Tel.: (+351) 245908234
e-mail: casadainquisicao@cm-castelo-vide.pt
URL.: https://www.castelodevide.pt/2941/casa-da-inquisicao

BOOK FAIRS

93.ª Feira do Livro de Lisboa 2023
de 25 de maio a 11 de junho de 2023

Parque Eduardo VII 
URL.: https://feiradolivrodelisboa.pt/

DOCUMENTARIES    

Sefarad (2022)
by Nuno Garcia.

The story of an incredible Jewish woman in the 16th century
Around one hundred thousand Sephardic Jews, descendants of the Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula, were expelled from Portugal by order of King Manuel I. From the 15th century onwards, the Sephardic diaspora spread across several continents and its culture remained throughout the centuries. Today, it is estimated that the number of Jews from this lineage is around twenty million.
Nuno Garcia's documentary follows the history of this people and, at the same time, reveals an incredible Jewish woman of the 16th century who stood out for her character and extraordinary deeds.
More information is available here.

Write to us: tikva@mjlisboa.com

FICHA TÉCNICA
Editorial coordination: Esther Mucznik 
Contents and editing: Ângela Ferraz, Esther Mucznik, Manuel Morais Sarmento Pizarro and Maria João Nunes
Graphics: Joana Cavadas

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