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10 April 2025, 7.30pm at the House of Yiddish Culture In the film L’Armée du Crime, one of the young resistance fighters calls out to his friend to join him: ‘Hey, Krasu!’ Henri Krasucki was a great resistance fighter before becoming the emblematic trade union leader of the 1980s. This commitment to working-class Jews was very present throughout the twentieth century on both sides of ...
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12 March 2025, 6.30pm at the Maïmonide Institute The historian Tal Bruttmann is a specialist in anti-Semitic policies in France during the Second World War and the ‘Final Solution’ in Europe, and a member of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah. In this talk, he looks at the way in which the Auschwitz concentration camp is and was represented. In particular, through the photos that have ...
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12 March 2025 at 6pm, at the Musée de la bande dessinée It’s hard enough to pay tribute to one giant. But when two giants come together through their shared works and influences, it’s worthy of a Western with a happy ending. These two New York Jewish children of parents from Eastern Europe embraced America. Each in his own way, according to his generation and his inspiration. Will ...
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18 March 2025 at 7pm, at the Caen Memorial Travelling with this great historian gives us a better understanding of her commitment to sharing memory, which is particularly evident in her books on the Shoah. With a look at the emblematic places familiar to the honorary director of research at the CNRS and vice-president of the Conseil supérieur des Archives. This is an opportunity for ...
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30 January 2025, 7pm at the Jewish Museum Berlin Hans-Gerd Koch, a German specialist in Kafka’s work, presents this approach in this lecture, outlining the author’s perception of artistic creation and his approach to visual art. He will also explain how adapting Kafka’s work into images helps us to better understand certain elements of his work. Access Kafka – Kafka and Art ...
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9 February 2025, 4pm at the Drancy Shoah Memorial As part of the Drancy Meetings series, the Memorial is organising a conference with Miguel Haler, writer and musician, and Saimir Mile, lawyer and president of the association La voix des Rroms, moderated by the journalist Eduardo Castillo. This meeting will provide a better understanding of the history of those known as ‘Romanis, Gypsies, ...
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A large series of meetings are planned for 2025. These include, at the start of the year, a lecture on ‘The French Revolution and human rights’ by Loris Chavanette on 13 January, another on ‘Interpreting and thinking the Real. On the theory of knowledge of Ibn Rushd and Spinoza’ by Salim Mokaddem on 20 January and the presentation of Christian Amalvi’s book “Mitterrand and culture” on ...
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21 January 2025 at 7.30pm at the Hohenems Jewish Museum This lecture by Thomas Schmidinger will look at the Jewish diaspora in Kurdistan, one of the oldest in the world. Nevertheless, the majority of Kurdish Jews were forced to leave in the second half of the 20th century. Political scientist and social and cultural anthropologist Thomas Schmidinger led a Future Fund research project in ...
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15 December 2024 at 8pm with the JMI in zoom A discussion via zoom will enable participants to discuss the musical education of the next generations, both in Jewish communities and in the country as a whole. The discussion is prompted by the fact that music is rarely part of the school curriculum, and remains present mostly in privileged circles, with private lessons and access to classical ...
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19 December 2024 at 6.30pm at the Musée départemental de la Résistance et de la Déportation This lecture by Elérika Leroy of the Haute-Garonne Museum of Resistance and Deportation, and Sonya Beyron, Remembrance Coordinator for the Occitanie region at the National Office for Combatants and Victims of War, is presented as part of the events organised in Haute-Garonne to celebrate the 80th ...
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Until 8 December 2024 Since 7 November, a number of events and meetings have been taking place with Hebraica: lecture by the Genealogy Circle of Paris (12 November at 6.30pm at the EDJ), concert “A violon in History” (14 November at 8pm at the Salle San Subra), concert by the Rana Choir (16 November at 30.30pm at the Salle GESU), screening of the film L’Armée des ombres (Army of ...
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October 31, 2024, at 6:30 p.m. at Beit Café The author Ilya Fellous welcomes the public for an encounter at this café filled with a warm atmosphere, where the cultural references of the shtetl and Frishman meet on the walls, shelves and in the dishes… BEIT CAFÉ
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October 28, 2024, at 4:30 p.m. at the Café des Psaumes This conference takes place as part of the presentation of the book “The Sewn Shadows” with François Azar, vice-president of Aki Estamos. The Café des Psaumes offers numerous workshops, courses, concerts, conferences and shows in one of the favorite places of the Pletzl nostalgics, located on the legendary rue des Rosiers… Le Café des Psaumes
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4 November 2024, 12.30pm at the CCLJ A discussion with Albert Aniel, Sophie Milquet (Fondation de la Mémoire contemporaine) and Yannik van Praag (Fondation Auschwitz) on the book “Anderlecht’s triangle: Jewish memories of a neighborhood”. The book gives participants an insight into the history of the Jewish populations who migrated from Eastern Europe to the working-class districts of ...
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20 October from 2pm In the presence of journalist Didier Epelbaum and historian Renée Poznanski, journalist Edouardo Castillo will lead a discussion on the period 1944-1947, which saw the closure of the Drancy camp following the Liberation of France. He recalled the zealous massacres carried out by the camp’s administrators before the arrival of the Allies, and the flight of its ...
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1 September 2024 in Anderlecht The year is starting again, but the notes and the enthusiasm that accompany them are still present. A music of distant and uncertain times, klezmer is reappearing in the four corners of the world to re-enchant us. The Jewish Culture House offers you an introduction to klezmer music, with sessions of nigunim, work on scores, a study of style, personal work and ...
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15 September 2024 from 10am at the Beth Yaacov Great Synagogue and the Geneva Liberal Jewish Community (GIL) A wide range of activities will be on offer throughout the day. Starting with a guided tour of Beth Yaacov by historian Jean Plançon, followed by a tasting of traditional Shabbat dishes. The day continues at the GIL with a visit by Rabbi Emeritus François Garaï. There will also be a ...
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Until 30 September 2024 at the Jewish Museum Prague In this year marking 100 years since the death of Franz Kafka, the museum is devoting an exhibition to Israeli artist and typographer Oded Ezer. The exhibition features a parody of a documentary based on Kafka’s character, Gregor Samsa. It plays between ambitions and realities, the lost texts of the fictional author and the preserved ...
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Until 16 September 2024 at the Polin Museum Proof that an artistic calling, a hidden or repressed vocation, can emerge late in life, Helena Berlewi began painting in 1952, at the age of 79. And she didn’t stop until her death at the age of 103. This Polish-Jewish survivor of the Shoah took the artist’s name of Hel Enri. Sitting at home, watching the snow fall and wondering what to ...
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An English photographer, Chris Schwarz is best known in Krakow as the founder and first director of the Galicia Jewish Museum. In the early 1990s, he travelled to Poland in search of traces of Polish Jewish cultural heritage and captured them in images. These works, which retrace the contemporary and tragic history of Polish Jews, became the core of the permanent exhibition at the museum. The ...
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From 1 October to 1 November 2024 at the Rembrandt Museum Rembrandt’s tradition was to surround himself with pupils, sharing the creative process with them, sometimes as many as four or five at a time. Nearly 400 years later, the Rembrandtian tradition is perpetuated by the museum, which welcomes two artists who move in with their brushes to create works inspired by the master. ...
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The Jewish year is marked by a number of events that celebrate or commemorate religious and historical moments. They help us to better understand the contours of Jewish identity. This exhibition presents the different festivals and their particular character. It uses sounds, images, objects and stories. The Jewish Year (jodiskmuseumoslo.no)
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At the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights Inaugurated in 1956, the museum was built by the architects Schmitt and Schmitt-Noesen. This building, along with its monument, the Justice of the Peace building and the Labour Office, shape the image of the town of Esch. Following renovations carried out between 2018 and 2023, the museum has tripled in size. ...
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This exhibition presents a little-known period of the painter’s life, in particular his sojourns in the two cities of Rome and Paris that were so inspiring and welcoming to artists. Samuel Bak, who lived in Boston, bequeathed a large number of his works, a third of which were painted in these two cities. 159 of his works were received earlier this year, adding significantly to the ...
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Until 30 August 2024 at the Thessaloniki Jewish Museum Legend has it that the Golem, the monster created to protect Jews from anti-Semitism, rests in a geniza in Prague. While waiting to find it there, another geniza in Cairo, at the end of the 19th century, uncovered numerous documents, biblical and literary texts as is customary, but also all sorts of historical and artistic documents and ...
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22 August 2024 This tour, organised by the Danish Jewish Museum, allows visitors to discover this historic site where Jews have been buried for over 300 years. The guide will talk about the personalities who have left their mark on Danish history and who are buried in this cemetery. These include Moritz Levy and Harriet Salomonsen. This tour is also available in September. Tales in the ...
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Until 31 December 2024 at the Dossin Barracks One of Antwerp’s culinary specialities, the hand-shaped biscuits, symbol of the city, are very popular with tourists. They were invented 90 years ago by baker Jos Hakker. This son of Dutch Jewish immigrants paid tribute to his host city. Less well known is his personal story: arrested in 1942, taken to the Dossin barracks and deported to ...
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Until 27 October 2024 at the Jewish Museum Vienna and the Wien Museum During the Nazi persecution that led to the extermination of Viennese Jews during the Shoah, they were methodically deprived of all their rights and property before being deported. This exhibition traces the history of these thousands of looted homes. Organised in conjunction with the Vienna City Museum, it presents the ...
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5 October 2024, 6pm to 11.30pm at the Jewish Museum in Hohenems An evening where the arts come together as day turns to night, with a host of activities based around the exhibitions and other cultural events, such as ‘Yalla Habibi’ on Jewish-Arab relations, presented at the museum. It’s all part of a family-friendly atmosphere, culminating in a musical DJ night. Lange Nacht der ...
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12 August 2024, 7.30pm at JW3 Director Archie Baron’s film, produced by the BBC and broadcast in 1990, explores the events leading up to the decision to expel the Jews from England 700 years earlier, in 1290, in particular the false anti-Semitic accusations of ritual murder, which inspired other such decisions on the European continent. The director will be present at the screening and ...
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