Ernest Namenyi Association of Jewish Heritage
In 2008 museum and archive professionals, librarians, conservators, museologists, historians, architects and heritage professionals – decided to create a civil Association for collecting and virtually presenting Hungarian Jewish visual culture.
Up till now, visual aspects and manifestations of Jewish life in Hungary were largely out of the scope of both Hungarian and Jewish institutions of higher education and research.
The main aims of the Association are:
- to build a knowledge-base about the visual and material heritage of the Hungarian Jewry;
- to maintain an internet site for publish all information concerning this heritage;
- to help the source-communities in the care and preservation of the buildings, cemeteries, objects and documents;
- to inseminate contents of Hungarian Jewish visual culture not yet published;
- to make accessible essential publications on the topics of the association
- to generate a network among scholars, students and others interested in material and visual heritage of the Hungarian Jews;
- to participate in the European, Israeli and American associations with similar agendas.
The Association is named after Ernest M. Naményi, the first Hungarian scholar of Jewish Art, who called the first European Meeting of European Jewish Museums in 1956.
The Honorary President of the Association is the well-known writer and thinker György Konrád.
The supporting members include Ruth Ellen Gruber author of several books on Jewish Heritage in Europe.