On 21 September 2025, from 3pm to 6pm at the Maison Juive Dumas
This Sunday cultural programme is designed for people who are curious to learn Hebrew or improve their language skills. This year, the Jewish Community of Geneva is also offering courses for 5-8 year olds.
Evénements Archive – Communauté Israélite de Genève
Until 28 December 2025 at the POLIN Museum
This exhibition, created by Julia Konieczna, is inspired by the museum’s name, which means both ‘Poland’ and ‘rest here’ in Hebrew, offering visitors a break from the present. By highlighting the harmony of nature, it invites participants to relax, develop their curiosity and explore the realm of artistic possibilities, accompanied by giant stuffed animals, comfortable seats and educational materials.
Until 31 March 2026 at the Jewish Museum of Galicia
This new exhibition presents the dramatic story of the Reiss family during the Holocaust. Unlike most of their relatives, who were murdered, Lucja and Henryk Reiss managed to obtain false papers and hide during the war. More than 50 objects tell this moving story and give visitors a better understanding of the difficulties of surviving in such conditions at that time. They had to constantly change locations, travelling through Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to escape the Nazis.
Henryk Reiss Must Cease to Exist – Muzeum Żydowskie
Until 11 January 2026 at the Jewish Historical Institute
This exhibition explores both the importance of texts in monotheistic religious heritage and the Torah as a work of art. What messages do the ornaments and different representations of the scrolls and ritual objects surrounding them convey in different Jewish communities over time? The exhibition also explores the particular care taken by the Nazis to defile and destroy both the texts and the ritual objects that protected them. Most of the objects on display come from the JHI and other Polish institutions.
Sacred masterpiece. Torah scroll as object and symbol \ Exhibitions \ Żydowski Instytut Historyczny
Until 11 January 2026 at the Jewish Museum Amsterdam
This exhibition presents the history of innovative and daring photographers, many of them Jewish, who captured images of the streets of the great American city. It shows the difficult life during the Depression, the conditions of workers and racial discrimination. Among the works on display are those by photographers Berenice Abbott, Weegee, Lisette Model and Walter Rosenblum.
Photo League: New York 1936–1951 |… | Jewish Cultural Quarter
Until 31 December 2025 at the Jewish Museum of Greece
This is the first exhibition dedicated to Greek Jews from the end of the war to the 1970s. This period saw the reconstruction of Greek Jewish life, followed by civil war, the restoration of democracy in 1974 and the creation of this museum in 1977. On this occasion, numerous archives, objects, photos and recorded testimonies of Holocaust survivors will be presented to the public, providing a better understanding of this difficult period, the fate of Jews after the war and the various societal issues at stake.
“Like hunted birds, Greek Jews after World War II” – Jewishmuseum
Until 27 August 2025 at the Museo Sefardi
The Sephardic Museum and the Apolo Toledo Association invite participants in this competition to give free rein to their creativity in an incomparable historical setting: the Samuel ha-Leví Synagogue. Participants are free to draw an original work using any style or technique they choose. The winning entry will be used in the design of the museum’s institutional gifts, allowing its creator to leave an artistic mark in a place steeped in history.
Concurso “Dibujar el museo” – Museo Sefardí – Sinagoga del Tránsito | Ministerio de Cultura
11 September 2025 at 5pm at the Danish Jewish Museum
A special evening event is being organised at the Danish Jewish Museum to give participants an immersive experience of architectural lines and shapes. Using paper and pencils, they will be able to reproduce the works and the shape of the building that houses them. The building was designed by the renowned architect Daniel Libeskind. This event encourages creativity, particularly among those under the age of 27, who will be admitted to the museum free of charge on that day.
Draw the architecture – jewmus
12 November 2025 at 2pm
This themed walking tour, led by a guide and organised by the Maison de la Culture Juive and the CCLJ, allows participants to explore the city and the sites that bore witness to the Resistance and the Nazi occupation. An original itinerary highlighting both well-known and lesser-known sites.
Bruxelles la Juive / Résistance et collaboration – La Maison de la Culture Juive
From 5 September to 14 December 2025 at the Jewish Museum of Belgium
This title, taken from a Leonard Cohen song, highlights the imagination and action of a museum that refuses to depend solely on decisions beyond its control, linked to (lack of) political will and the passing of time. Before it can begin its reconstruction work, it is welcoming the public to admire works by 25 international artists whose practices combine notions of beauty, form, sensuality and touch with urgent questions of identity and territory.
Le musée dévoile sa nouvelle exposition ! – Musée Juif de Belgique
Through this project, the Kazerne Dossin museum wishes to commemorate the 25,843 people who were deported from the Dossin barracks. Since October 2023, it has been inviting participants to say the name of a victim of the Holocaust. Once the project is complete, all the recordings will be played continuously in the Memorial. Two-thirds of the names have already been recorded, so the museum is calling on anyone who wishes to participate to do so. Recording takes only a few minutes on site… Every name counts.
Chaque nom compte | Kazerne Dossin
9 September 2025 at 7 p.m. at the CCLJ
As every year, a festive and diverse atmosphere awaits participants at this event, whose name alone represents a journey in itself. Milmoul refers to the Hebrew language, but also to the desire to bring people together and is a nod to the typical Belgian dish: mussels and chips. The legendary Belgian good humour animates this event, which combines musical cabaret performances with a variety of eclectic shows. A project that encourages creativity in Hebrew while promoting intercultural exchange.
Until 18 January 2026 at the Judenplatz Museum
As part of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the Jewish Museum Vienna is presenting a series of photographs by Roger Cremers. These works address questions of European memory after the Holocaust and in the face of war today. The photographs were taken across Europe since 2008 and deal with the question of how human tragedies are dealt with, how they are represented in memory, and the attitude of institutions and individuals towards them.
Where Have All The Flowers Gone…
On 28 August 2025 at 1 p.m. at the National Holocaust Centre & Museum
With the last witnesses of the Holocaust disappearing, these rare encounters are all the more important for understanding history, sharing memories and combating rising anti-Semitism in Europe. In particular, they are important for countering those who falsify and simplify history. Many museums are currently doing important educational work, particularly with schools, presenting these valuable testimonies in order to counter the rise of anti-Semitism.
What’s on at The National Holocaust Centre & Museum
From 6 to 16 November 2025
The 2025 edition of the British Jewish Film Festival will take place in London and other English cities, with the programme being announced gradually. As every year, it offers an opportunity to appreciate the diversity of Jewish culture and Israeli life as studied and captured on film by directors from around the world. A series of short films will also be available online from 19 to 27 November.
UK Jewish Film Festival 2025 – UK Jewish Film
On 15 September, from 6pm to 8pm at the Manchester Jewish Museum
The museum encourages all music lovers, whether seasoned or amateur, to share their enthusiasm for music. It offers them the opportunity to learn how to write music and explore its various fields. The meetings take place twice a month at the museum and are led by composers, authors, singers and musicians. A presentation of various Jewish musical performances is also on the programme, allowing participants to appreciate different styles and eras.
Manchester Jewish Museum — Song-writing Group: Creating Music Together
Until 15 January 2026 at the Leicester Hebrew Congregation
The Jewish Museum London is lending six photographs by Judah Passow to this synagogue in Leicester, which were among those displayed at the museum in 2012 as part of the exhibition “No Place Like Home”. The exhibition was the result of a year-long exploration of Jewish life across England by Judah Passow, showcasing its diversity and exploring what it means to be Jewish and British in the 21st century. This initiative is one of many undertaken by the museum to share British Jewish culture beyond the walls of the institution.
Showcasing: Judah Passow @ Leicester Hebrew Congregation – The Jewish Museum London
From 26 to 31 December 2025 in Birmingham
As has been the case for decades, Limoud’s main event takes place in England at the end of the year. This is where this wonderful concept was created, bringing together speakers on 1001 topics related to Judaism in a friendly spirit of sharing between people of different religions, cultures and sensibilities, who are curious to exchange ideas, learn and share their enthusiasm. The project has since spread throughout England, Europe and far beyond.
Until 10 May 2026 at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt
2025 marks the centenary of the modernisation campaign in Frankfurt that transformed the city’s architecture. It saw the emergence of functional buildings and a growing role for modern arts and means of communication. Many of the leading figures in this transformation were secular Jews. Among them were Mayor Ludwig Landmann, some of his deputies, architect Fritz Nathan, artist Erna Pinner, and photographers Ilse Bing and Jeanne Mandello. The exhibition addresses the question: ‘Is there a link between the Jewish tradition of cultivating community spirit and the social, urban and cultural modernisation project known as New Frankfurt?’
100 Jahre Neues Frankfurt – Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt
Until 23 November 2025 at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Modern art and its relatively easier access for women contributed to their emancipation. This exhibition is the first to share the numerous works of pre-war German Jewish women artists. It allows visitors to follow the evolution of their work, their access to public presentation and the rights they won for themselves and all other German women… before the Nazis came to power and destroyed their careers and their lives.
Defiance | Jewish Museum Berlin
From 9 October 2025 to 8 March 2026 at the mahJ
For the first retrospective in Paris dedicated to Denise Bellon (1902–1999), the mahJ is presenting nearly 300 photographs, objects, letters and publications by this pioneer of photojournalism and companion of the Surrealists. Born in Paris into a Jewish family originally from Alsace and Germany, Denise Hulmann helped found Alliance-Photo, the first photographic agency of the interwar period. She managed to conceal her Jewish identity in Lyon during the Second World War, continuing her artistic activity. As a result, she left behind a remarkable collection of images of the city under the Occupation. At the end of 1944, the photographer covered the Spanish Republican maquis retreating to the Aude region for Midi Libre. A year later, she produced a report in Moissac on the Maison des Éclaireurs Israélites, which was a refuge for Jewish children during the Holocaust.
Denise Bellon. Un regard vagabond | Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme
28 September 2025 at 6pm at the Edmond Fleg Centre in Marseille
To mark the Jewish New Year, the Edmond Fleg Centre is presenting the ‘Nomadic Accords’ concert, inspired by the legendary New Year’s concert in Vienna. It is being produced in partnership with the Espace Culturel de Chaillol.
Centre Edmond Fleg Marseille – “Accords nomades quatuor” – Centre Edmond Fleg Marseille
From 8 October 2025 to 26 January 2026 at the Orangerie
It is not only art that is avant-garde, the contribution of certain gallery owners is just as important. One such figure was Berthe Weill, a rare woman in this milieu, who opened a gallery at 25 Rue Victor-Massé in the Pigalle district in 1901. Her aim was to showcase the work of little-known artists who would go on to become the great names of the century, including Picasso, Matisse and Modigliani, as well as female artists such as Emilie Charmy and Suzanne Valadon. Berthe Weill was their spokesperson, committing herself to them and their potential audience for forty years, until her gallery closed in 1940 following the first persecutions of Jews in France during the Holocaust.
Exposition Berthe Weill. Galeriste d’avant-garde | Musée de l’Orangerie
18 September 2025 at 7pm at the Shoah Memorial.
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To mark the publication of Harmonies volées. Spring 1945: the return of pianos looted by the Nazis by Caroline Piketty (L’Archipel, 2025), the Memorial welcomes the author and Pascale Bernheim, founder of the association Musique et Spoliations. The book presents an investigation into the journey of pianos stolen during the Holocaust, their owners, and those who betrayed them.
Mémorial de la Shoah | Boutique en ligne
Until 16 November 2025 at the mahJ
More than 250 photographs, posters, documents and costumes have been brought together by the Museum of Jewish Art and History to retrace the little-known life of dancer Paula Padani (1913-2001). The last Jewish student at the renowned Wigman dance school in Dresden, this Hamburg native emigrated to Israel in 1936. She opened a dance school in Tel Aviv and created a repertoire of solo pieces. In 1946, she moved to Paris with her husband, Michael Gottlieb, known as Aram. He devoted himself to painting, while Paula triumphed in Europe and New York.
14 September 2025, from 3pm to 6pm
During this afternoon, the YCC team, its facilitators and teachers will welcome the public to present the activities offered throughout the year. Classes and workshops begin on 15 September. The library and the exhibition ‘100 Years of Yiddish Books,’ presented for Heritage Days, will also be open. The Tshaynik café will be open for tea and cake.
Journée Portes Ouvertes de la MCY – programme.yiddish.paris
2 October, 8pm, Goethe Institute, Paris
This tribute concert marks the launch of the 25-26 Paris season of the Forum Voix Etouffées. The forum is named in honour of composers who were prevented from practising their craft by the Nazi regime and other totalitarian regimes. The concert aims to trace the path from Arnold Schoenberg to the plurality of Stolpersteine, laid in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. The programme includes: Arnold Schoenberg, Das Buch der Hängenden Garten, opus 15 (excerpts), Max Deutsch, Valse très lente, Max Deutsch, Liliom
based on the manuscript from the A. du Closel collection, now part of the Arnold Schönberg Center collections, Amaury du Closel, Stolpersteine, Luis de Pablo, Cesuras op. 13 and Darmstadt, Tonos, 1963.
Tuesdays from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at JEM Copernic
Choir directors Frédéric Albou and Thomas Tacquet lead the Copernic Choral Ensemble in its various performances. During concerts, of which at least three are planned throughout the year, the ensemble shares works from the great repertoire of Jewish music, both liturgical and secular, with the public. The Copernic Choral Ensemble also regularly participates in festivals in France and abroad, where it sings in Hebrew, French and Yiddish as well as Italian, German and English.
Ensemble Choral Copernic – Judaïsme En Mouvement
14 September starting at 10 a.m. at JEM Beaugrenelle
To mark the start of the year, JEM is hosting an open house to introduce visitors to its wide range of activities. Visitors will be able to discover weekly classes, conferences and workshops in a wide range of fields, including choir, bridge, ulpan, krav maga, calligraphy, biblical Hebrew and Pilates. These will be presented by JEM staff and guest speakers over a buffet lunch.
Forum des activités : journée portes ouvertes – Judaïsme En Mouvement
Until 30 September 2025 at the Galerie Saphir
Blending Caribbean culture with European artistic influences, Elisabeth Olle Curiel takes visitors on a unique journey through Venezuelan, Native American, Jewish and Catalan references. She reveals unexpected links between these cultures, shared through her brushstrokes, from canvas to canvas. An artistic journey inspired by the experiences of Elisabeth Ollé Curiel, whose family settled in the Dutch Antilles.
Elisabeth OLLE CURIEL | 7 August – 30 September 2025 – Overview | GALERIE SAPHIR