7 and 8 February at the Synagogue de la Paix
Founded in 1905, SEJAL (Société pour l’Etude du Judaïsme en Alsace-Lorraine) aims to protect and promote the Jewish heritage and history of the region. This year’s annual conference focuses on the place of women in Jewish society in Alsace-Lorraine from a religious and cultural perspective, illustrated by stories from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Synagogue de la Paix – Consistoire Israélite du Bas-Rhin
21 January 2026 at 12:30 p.m. at Beth Yaacov Synagogue
The CIG is offering an amazing lecture on the American Jewish entrepreneur who invented the Barbie doll. This special edition of Da’at discusses the life and work of Ruth Handler, her visionary business skills and creativity, and how she revolutionised the world of dolls.
Until 31 January 2027 at the Swiss Jewish Museum
A series of collages, models and monumental reliefs assembled under the title ‘Polish Village’ (1970–1973) was created by American artist Frank Stella (1936–2024). These works refer to more than 70 villages and towns in Eastern Europe that once housed magnificent wooden synagogues. Most of them have been destroyed. Frank Stella was inspired for this series by a book published in 1959 by the architect couple Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, which documents these lost synagogues: ‘Wooden Synagogues’.
Expositions – Juedisches Museum Schweiz
Until 9 March 2026 at the POLIN Museum
The great sculptor Alina Szapocznikow (1926–1973) combined her experience of the Holocaust, the fragility of the body and the courage to experiment in her work. Two of her sculptures from 1962, ‘Vowel’ and ‘Consonant,’ are on display at the museum. A Holocaust survivor, she studied in Prague and Paris before developing her artistic career in Poland and France. The exhibition is complemented by a screening of films about the artist.
Since 30 November 2025 at the Jewish Museum of Galicia
Visitors are invited to this exhibition tracing the history of the monumental synagogues built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These historic neo-Gothic and Moorish-style buildings were destroyed during the Holocaust. Featuring synagogues in 13 Polish cities, the exhibition commemorates these places and shares this cultural heritage with new generations. This project is co-financed by the German Consulate General in Krakow.
Unimaginable. The Void After the Great Synagogues – Muzeum Żydowskie
From 6 February to 23 August 2026 at the Jewish Museum Amsterdam
This exhibition provides an insight into the astonishing work of Judy Chicago, a leading figure in the art scene of the 1960s. At a time when women were often marginalised, she was all the more motivated to tackle transgressive subjects such as birth, various forms of injustice and feminism. Born Judith Cohen, she drew inspiration from her Jewish roots and personal experiences to fuel her work.
Judy Chicago: Revelations | Jewish Cultural Quarter
27 January 2026 at 7 p.m. on Place de la Synagogue in Esch-sur-Alzette
As part of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights and the City of Esch are organising a ceremony on this day.
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Until 31 March 2026 at the State Archives in Turin
This photographic exhibition, organised by the Jewish Community of Turin, the Gaetano Salvemini Foundation, the Polish Consulate and the State Archives of Turin, offers a visual and historical reflection on the Auschwitz camp, approached from three angles: victims, perpetrators and liberators. With a particular focus on reaching a young audience through guided tours and educational activities.
Inauguration de l’exposition « Voir Auschwitz » – Communauté juive de Turin
Until 14 June 2026 at the MEIS
The exhibition was made possible by the coming together of two photographic collections: that of Ernő Munkácsi, a collection of images of Jewish Italy produced and collected between 1927 and 1940, and the F.A.C.E. Fund, a photographic and documentary archive of the Federation of Jewish Cultural Associations between the 1920s and 1930s. This encounter provides a better understanding of Italian Jewish life between the two world wars.
Viaggio in Italia. Alla scoperta del patrimonio culturale ebraico – MEIS
31 January 2026 at 11:30 a.m. at the Museo Sefardi
The public is invited to participate in a special activity dedicated to celebrating the millennial relationship between the Sephardic people and nature. This will take the form of a theatrical tour of the botanical trail, during which participants will explore the diversity of natural species present in the museum, their symbolism and their presence in Jewish traditions. There will also be a workshop teaching participants how to better care for plants.
Until 5 April 2026 at the Danish Jewish Museum
Known for its rare courage during the war, Denmark also welcomed 3,000 Jews in the early 1970s. This exhibition recounts this historic moment through the writings of Polish Jewish author Janinas Katz (1939-2013). Her writings evoke the Holocaust as well as the discrimination and anti-Semitic measures imposed by the Polish communist regime that forced this exile. The author was honoured with the Danish Arts Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.
24 February 2026 at 8 p.m. at the Auderghem Cultural Centre
This show, presented by Rachel Khan and Steve Suissa, transports the audience to important moments in history, with texts by Victor Hugo, Charles De Gaulle, Martin Luther King, Golda Meir and Rosa Parks. These are women and men who embodied historical turning points and remain voices and inspirations for generations to come.
Les Grands Tournants – La Maison de la Culture Juive
Until 29 March 2026 at the Art & Margins Museum
Currently undergoing renovations, the Jewish Museum of Belgium is offering exhibitions outside its walls. Notably, this one reproduces a unique dialogue around memory and territory. These themes are explored in Angyvir Padilla’s work Fool’s Paradise and Jim Kaliski’s work, in which territory becomes a field of memory and resistance.
5 February 2026 at 8.30pm at the CCLJ
The play by the Compagnie Théâtre en Fusion pays tribute to the great figure of Jean Zay, Minister of National Education and Fine Arts under the Popular Front, who was sentenced to deportation by Pétain’s government and then assassinated by the Milice on 20 June 1944. Through the texts of his Captivity Diary, the audience learns about this man’s struggle against moral destruction, his concern for the public good and his quest for truth.
Jean Zay, l’homme complet – CCLJ
Until 26 April 2026 at the Jewish Museum Vienna
This bold exhibition explores issues of perception related to skin colour in the eyes of others, but also in one’s own eyes. In particular, it examines the question of Jewish identity and its link to self-definition, anti-Semitism and racism. This perspective is all the more interesting since 7 October and the explosion of anti-Semitic acts and the racist categorisation of Jews as ‘white colonial oppressors’, ignoring the fact that Jews of all skin colours have existed for thousands of years.
Black Jews, White Jews? On Skin Color and Prejudice
17 February 2026 at 1 p.m. at the National Holocaust Museum
Journalist at the Daily Telegraph and author of 35 essays and three novels, Wendy Holden presents her new book to the public. It is dedicated to Fredy Hirsch, who saved many children through his teachings, particularly on the efforts required to survive in a concentration camp. The book is the result of extensive research and the collection of testimonies.
‘The Teacher of Auschwitz’: Wendy Holden Author Event and Live Discussion
Music of the Holocaust: Lenka Lichtenberg
25 January 2026 at 7 p.m. at the Manchester Jewish Museum
Lenka Lichtenberg, Canadian musician and producer, shares on stage the poems of Holocaust survivors adapted into songs. These appear on her albums Thieves of Dreams – Songs of Theresienstadt’s Secret Poetess and Silent Tears, The Last Yiddish Tango. Most of the songs are in Yiddish and the narration is provided by producer and director Dan Rosenberg. A moving sharing of these voices, violated by history and despised by collective memory for many years.
Until 1 February 2026 at the Enfield Museum
Due to renovation work at the Jewish Museum London, many collections are touring England to be shared by cultural and community institutions and to raise awareness of British Jewish cultural heritage. Among the objects on display in this exhibition are family photographs by Grete Rudkin.
Until 25 March 2026 at Bradford Liberal Synagogue
Due to renovation work at the Jewish Museum London, many collections are touring England to be shared by cultural and community institutions and to raise awareness of British Jewish cultural heritage. The Liberal Synagogue in Bradford has been hosting part of these collections since November 2025.
The Strauss/Stroud Family @ Bradford Reform Synagogue – The Jewish Museum London
26 February 2026 at 7 p.m. at the Jewish Museum Munich
Reading by author Frank A. Stern and actress Tamara Stern from the fictionalised biography of the Kronheims. The story of a woman born in secret before 1945, the daughter of a German-Jewish merchant family. Between discussions and references to the past and the heavy silences following the war, but also contemporary Jewish life in Germany, this text tackles many themes.
Détails – Musée juif de Munich
Until 31 January 2026
To celebrate the museum’s 40th anniversary, it is presenting an exhibition specially prepared for the event. Documents and objects tracing the museum’s four decades of work and exhibitions give visitors a better understanding of its evolution and the place it holds in Augsburg today. The exhibition also looks to the future, presenting upcoming projects and challenges.
40 Years Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia | Foyer Exhibition
From 6 to 8 March 2026
Based on the theme ‘Tikun Olam, Repairing the world, yesterday, today and tomorrow,’ Limmud offers, as it does every year, a large number of meetings, workshops and conferences in a warm and welcoming setting. Inspired by the English model, which represents one of the great achievements of contemporary British Judaism, the chosen theme is courageous and daring, responding to the need to come together and rebuild a more peaceful and fraternal world.
18 January at 4pm at the Café des Psaumes
The duo Ora, composed of Eugénie Zebrowska Selin (vocals) and Evelyne Cohen (piano), presents its musical journey through great masterpieces for piano and voice from all horizons: from Yiddish songs to grand opera arias and humorous questions about the meaning and situations of life.
16 February 2026 at Adath Shalom
As part of its many literary and artistic events, the Graines de Psaumes association is offering two events on this day.
2:30 p.m. – ‘In the footsteps of Aurelie Gottlieb – a life story to rediscover’ by Philippe Boukara, historian and specialist in contemporary Jewish history. He will present the story of this Polish Jewish intellectual and Zionist activist.
4:00 p.m. – ‘Agnon’s Jerusalem’ by Anat Chaskalovic, Doctor of Hebrew Literature and Civilisation – Through the short story ‘Tehila’ by Samuel Joseph Agnon, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the complex history of this city, which has inspired so many cultures and civilisations throughout the ages, will be presented.
Until 20 September 2026 at the Museum of Resistance and Deportation in Isère
This exhibition, organised as part of the museum’s long-term effort to raise awareness of the region’s diverse cultural heritage, gives visitors a better understanding of the long history of the Jewish presence in the area. Thanks to the research of archaeologists and historians, it presents the story of two millennia of Jewish presence between the Rhône and the Alps, the plurality of Jewish identities today, and the actions taken to combat anti-Semitism.
Une histoire juive | Portail des Musées
Until 8 March 2026 at the Pantheon
This exhibition, which follows Robert Badinter’s induction into the Pantheon, gives visitors a better understanding of his family history, his career and his struggles. A lawyer and then Minister of Justice, Robert Badinter fought tirelessly against oblivion and all forms of hatred. He is best known to the general public for having abolished the death penalty in 1981 and decriminalised homosexuality the following year. Numerous documents, photos, audio clips and personal items are on display.
Robert Badinter, la justice au cœur | Panthéon
22 January 2026 at 8:30 p.m., at Espace Rachi – Guy de Rothschild
Artist Léa Carat takes the audience on a journey through the worlds and personal experiences that inspired her new album. Between French chanson and nomadic inspirations ranging from jazz to bossa nova, the audience is pleasantly lost between dreams and reality. For the launch of her new album, she is accompanied by a quintet featuring Sheliyah Masry on guitar, Jacques Boutineau on piano, Marielle De Rocca Sera on violin, Grégoire Deback on saxophone, Ida Driscoll on backing vocals and Fabrice Thompson on percussion.
Until 29 March 2026 at the Shoah Memorial in Paris
Forty years ago, Claude Lanzmann’s film was unable to include all the testimonies in its final cut. The recordings featured in the exhibition, presented for the first time simultaneously at the Shoah Memorial in Paris and the Jewish Museum in Berlin, date from the years before filming began and document the interviews not followed by filming that Claude Lanzmann and his assistants conducted during their research trips with perpetrators, victims and witnesses. The scientific curator is Tamar Lewinsky.
Mémorial de la Shoah | Boutique en ligne
21 January 2026 at 7 p.m. at the Shoah Memorial in Paris
On the occasion of the publication of Ginette Kolinka, Against Hate by Catel, published by La Sirène (2026), this presentation of the story of Ginette Kolinka, a camp survivor and tireless witness to young people, will give the audience a better understanding of the difficulty of dealing with trauma and silence. To arrive much later in life at the point of speaking, recounting and passing on… This book, in the form of interviews, gives voice to a movingly clear narrative, accompanied by Catel Muller’s drawings, which reinforce the power of the testimony. Ginette Kolinka discusses deportation, but also racism, anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial and intolerance, in the form of a cry against hatred, forgetfulness and indifference. In the presence of the author and Ginette Kolinka, in conversation with Jean-Luc Fromental, publisher and scriptwriter.
Mémorial de la Shoah | Boutique en ligne
24 January 2026 from 3:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Maison de la Culture Yiddish
This day offers a chance to immerse yourself in the world of the shtetl, its characters, both real and imagined, and their different representations according to place and time, confronted with surrounding threats and historical and cultural upheavals. The day will begin with a fun family activity around a costume and role-playing workshop. This will be followed by a series of readings of poems and stories about the shtetl, in Yiddish with their English translations.
La Nuit de la lecture : Villes et campagne – programme.yiddish.paris