EUROPEAN DAY OF JEWISH CULTURE / JORNADA EUROPEIA DA CULTURA JUDAICA

Porto, September 2, 2007
Jorge Neves with Jewish Porto walking tour participants (photo by Celia Maria)

Over 40 people turned up on the morning of September 2, 2007 for a walking tour of Jewish Porto to celebrate European Day of Jewish culture. Following a three hour guided tour by Jorge Neves, the group retired to historic Miragaia, once the home of a thriving Jewish community before 1385, to a lunch of alheiras in honour of the Marranos who were tortured or killed by the (un)Holy office of the Inquisition. The afternoon witnessed a full house at the Kadoorie Mekor Haim synagogue featuring an exhibition at the Barros Basto musuem, short films, and a kosher buffet at the end of the evening. The launch of the new book on Barros Basto by Alexandre Teixeira Mendes took place at 18.30. For further details see www.friendsofmarranos.blogspot.com