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The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, today presented the conference "Jewish Medieval Archaeology in the Iberian Peninsula.

Results and Prospects', to be held in the Archaeological Museum of Murcia from 26 to 28 February.

In the presentation, accompanied Ujaldón conference co-chair, Angel Iniesta, and the coordinator, Juan Garcia Sandoval.

The conference aims to bring together specialists and researchers in recent years are working in the field of Jewish archeology to share information, experiences and methodologies on a very recent archaeological research.

The director general said the congress, held in conjunction with the separate house Beitenu and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Murcia, serves "to delve into different aspects of medieval Jewish life, while it retrieves the Jewish past our region. "

In this sense, Ujaldón stressed that this meeting "will supplement the effort that the Department is undertaking for the diffusion and contextualization of Jewish heritage, the proof is in the exhibition" Lorca.

Sefarad Lights', which is displayed in the Archaeological Museum until 12 April, results of excavations at the castle of Lorca which took place the discovery of Jewry. "

At the conference, which already has 170 registered from all over Spain, there will be around 24 communications' Jewry, urbanism and domestic architecture ',' synagogues.

Religious Architecture ',' Cemetery.

Archaeology of death ',' Judaica and Jewish Antiquities 'and' Jewish heritage and its dissemination. "

The conference is complemented by two conferences and a visit to premises musealized of Murcia.

In the opening lecture, after the formal events, the professor of the Autonomous University of Madrid, Angel Fuentes Domínguez, will discuss Jewish archeology in the Iberian Peninsula in antiquity, and in closing, Professor Shalom Sabar, of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, addressed the issue of preservation of culture and art Sephardim in Morocco.

Photo (left to right): The co-director of the congress, Angel Iniesta, the Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, and the coordinator, Juan Garcia Sandoval.

Source: CARM