The Georgian Minister of Education, Science and Youth, Givi Mikanadze, participated in the conference “Georgian-Jewish Relations – Past and Modernity”, which was held at Akaki Tsereteli State University.
The Ministry of Education, Science, and Youth of Georgia shared the glimpses of the conference on May 4, 2026. The Georgian Ministry also shared a small note about the event along with its glimpses.
The conference was dedicated to the opening of the Center for Georgian-Jewish Relations, named after Abraham Sapiri (Sefiashvili).
Givi Mikanadze drew attention to the long-century friendly ties between Georgia and Israel and thanked the honorable guest of the event, Georgian-Jewish engineer, writer, publicist, and social activist Abraham Sapir, for his invaluable contribution to deepening the Georgian-Jewish relationship.
Abraham Sapir thanked the Georgian side for opening the center and organizing the event. The conference was opened by Professor Shalva Kirtadze, Rector of Akaki Tsereteli State University. The Speakers of the event: Delegate of Kutaisi to the Georgian Parliament Zaza Lominadze, local government representatives, and other guests.
Important topics such as the vocabulary of the ethnographic presence of the Jews of Kutaisi, phraseologisms in the speech of Georgian Jews, re-understanding of Jewish culture, and the theme of homeland in Georgian Jewish poetry were discussed at an academic and in-depth level.
The Center for Georgian-Jewish Relations, named after Abraham Sapiri (Sefiashvili), is a structural unit of the Akaki Tsereteli State University Library, whose primary goal is to promote the strengthening of relations between the Georgian and Jewish communities, search for and develop diaspora links, promote cultural heritage, and create new forms of cooperation.
The Center will unite people from different generations and professions, including researchers, students, representatives of the diaspora, and the cultural sphere, to establish friendship and cooperation between the Georgian and Jewish communities.
