30 March 2025 from 10am, at the CIG
To mark Biblioweekend 2025, the IGC is organising an astonishing day of meetings and activities. Starting with its guest of honour, author Douglas Kennedy. Here are the details of these activities: a presentation of the treasures of the Jewish Library by the Library team (10.15am), followed by ‘1 work in 10 minutes’ with Daniel Halpérin, Glorice Weinstein and Serge Hazanov (10.45am), an interview with Pierre Hazan on ‘Negotiating with the Devil: Mediation in Armed Conflict’ (11.15am), and a meeting and signing session with the guest authors (12pm). In the afternoon, late risers can take part in a presentation of the treasures of the Jewish Library by the Library team (4pm) and new presentations of ‘1 work in 10 minutes’ on the theme of Jewish life in Geneva with Idit Ezrati, Daniel Ferreira and André Klopmann (4.30pm). This will be followed by an interview with Douglas Kennedy (5pm). Then there will be further presentations of ‘1 work in 10 minutes’ with Michel Borzykowski, Ilan Lew, Massia, Leo Kaneman and Rose R. Yarom (5.45 p.m.). It’s sure to be a lovely long literary stroll…
Until 9 September 2025 at the synagogue in Maribor
This exhibition presents the story of the women deported during the Holocaust, with the aim of raising public awareness of this tragic history and remembering these victims. It was prepared by Boris Hajdinjak (Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor) and Monika Kokalj Kočevar (National Museum Of Contemporary History Of Slovenia). The exhibition opened at the museum in 2024.
Slovenian Female Inmates in Nazi Concentration Camps – Sinagoga Maribor
10 April 2025, 7.30pm at the Portuguese Synagogue
The magnificent setting of the Portuguese synagogue is the venue for regular concerts. On this evening, Marcel Worms presents a programme entitled ‘Jewish composers without borders’. With works by Bernstein, Copeland, Gershwin and Milhaud mixed with jazzy, bluesy and contemporary sounds. Just like Marcel Worms’ international career, since the 1990s he has produced albums by composers as varied as Bach and Glass.
Candlelight Concert | Portuguese Synagogue… | Jewish Cultural Quarter
23 April 2025 at 7.30pm at the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights
Mechthild Gilzmer, Caroline Francois, Catherine Lacour-Astrol and Pierre-Emmanuel Dufayel will retrace the career of women involved in the Resistance in France. The aim is to honour their memory and show the variety of their paths and the challenges they faced during the Second World War.
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16 March 2025 at the Place des Juistes in Siauliai
The Jewish community of Siauliai invites the public to take part in this day honouring the Righteous who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. A ceremony with speeches, followed by the presentation of an exhibition entitled ‘Unafraid to die, they became immortal’, and a musical performance by Dalia Dėdinskaitė and Gleb Pyšniak on cello.
News – Lithuanian Jewish Community
12 March 2025, 6pm at the Museo Ebraico di Trieste
This conference will focus on the presentation of Liana Novelli’s book, in partnership with the ADEI WIZO of Trieste and Turin, the Trieste Women’s Council and the University of Trieste. The author talks about her background, having been born in Turin, lived in Germany and is currently president of the Coordinamento Donne Italiane di Francoforte. In particular, she talks about the racial laws under Mussolini that affected Italian Jews, including her mother’s family.
From Turin to Frankfurt – Museo Ebraico di Trieste
From 12 March to 15 June 2025 at MEIS
In partnership with the National Library of Israel, this surprising and festive exhibition highlights the main character of the Purim story, Queen Esther. The exhibition features works of Renaissance art to accompany the presentation of the scrolls. These works come from many cities around the world. There will also be interactive activities for young and old alike.
Beautiful Esther. Purim, a timeless story – MEIS
29 and 30 March 2025
The Sephardic Museum is offering workshops to help you better understand Spanish Jewish history, particularly through the lives of different characters and eras. All in different forms: poetry, novel, prose, essay, history, tale, fable, myth, tragedy, comedy, etc. A variety of forms of expression, as varied as these stories and journeys over the centuries. With a desire for authentic interpretation.
29 and 30 March 2025
The Danish Jewish Museum is taking a very active part in this year’s National History Days, as it has done in the past. 6 stages, 75 exhibitors and 150 events will take place over two days! In particular, it will be presenting the 400 years of Danish Jewish life, which have recently been celebrated at a number of official events. Among the activities on offer will be a conversation about the book ‘Borderless Jews’, a presentation of photos about the exile of Jews during the Shoah helped by the courageous Danish people and a discussion about the contemporary lives of Danish Jews living in Israel.
We are involved in Historical Days! – Jew mouse
27 March 2025, 7pm at the Jewish Museum in Belgium
This musical event, devised by Patricia Jankowska, is organised in collaboration with the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles. The aim is to shed light on the life and work of this emblematic figure in the defence of children’s rights. A paediatrician, teacher and author, Janusz Korczak fought all his life for these rights, giving up his own to accompany them when they were deported to Treblinka in 1942. Music by Piotr Moss, under the artistic coordination of Jean-Marc Fessard, will accompany this moving presentation of Korczak’s destiny.
From 20 March to 10 December 2025 at the Kazerne Dossin
As shown in the recent film El amor en su lugar (Love in its place), which depicts how the Nazis starved the Warsaw ghetto of what little energy it had left, art played a role in helping people to survive. The same was true of some of the sports movements in the camps, enabling the deportees to hold out, but also being exploited by their executioners to punish them even more physically. Letters, photos and personal accounts retrace the journeys of athletes in the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp.
Exposition temporaire: « Le Sport et les athlètes au KL Auschwitz » | Kazerne Dossin
18 March 2025, 7pm at the Centre Communautaire Juif Laïc
Like a dimly lit room in Odessa, a musical cellar in Saint-Germain or a cabaret on New York’s Lower East Side, the CCLJ is offering an astonishing evening of music. A mix of enthusiasm and influences. Israeli and French songs and sounds of world music. With, of course, a touch of klezmer, in the good-natured spirit of Belgian cultural encounters. Performers include Dianka Songo, Juliette Lacroix, Michèle Baczynsky, Myriam Ron Roth, Shaya Feldman and Franco Panizon.
6 April 2025, at 13:45
On this guided tour, the Maison de la Culture Juive, in partnership with the CCLJ, traces the history of Jewish life in Brussels. From the interwar period, with the arrival of Eastern European Jews in its working-class districts, to the way in which the city faced up to Nazi policies during the Shoah, with its courageous acts of resistance, particularly by certain official bodies, and those that were much less so.
Bruxelles la Juive / résistance et collaboration – CCLJ
Until 31 December 2025
Since January, many venues, not just the Vienna Jewish Museum, have been hosting a series of events to celebrate its anniversary. In 1895, the museum became the first Jewish museum in the world. Age does not show on the face of its exhibitions and activities, as the museum remains very active and frequently renews its presentations.
Exhibition Detail | Jüdisches Museum Wien
27 March 2025, 6pm at the Manchester Jewish Museum
This event is an opportunity to talk with the leading researcher in Jewish studies. He will share his background and what motivated him to devote himself to this field. In particular, the challenges he faced in his approach to Judaism, having been born into a Protestant family in Northern Ireland. And how he helped to establish this field of study in British universities. He will also present the evolution of British Jewish life, particularly in Manchester.
Manchester Jewish Museum — Museum Evening Talks: Professor Philip Alexander in Conversation
Until 11 July 2025
In partnership with Queen Mary University of London, the Jewish Museum London has been putting a series of amazing podcasts online since January 2025, enabling visitors to rediscover the sounds and flavours of London’s Yiddish popular culture at the turn of the 20th century. One shared along stories, texts and songs, focusing on the period between the 1880s and 1950s. A journey guided by historians Nadia Valman and Vivi Lachs, with the participation of Michael Rosen, Miriam Margolyes, Alan Dein and David Schneider.
Pitch Up: The Cockney Yiddish Podcast – The Jewish Museum London
25 May 2025, 12.30pm at King’s Cross
The JMI Youth Big Band, a group of young jazz artists, takes to the stage under the baton of Sam Eastmond, a celebrated conductor who has worked with John Zorn among others. Founder of the Spike Orchestra, this trumpeter and composer has long been a talented blender of jazz, klezmer, rock and other sounds, since the release of the album Ghetto in 2014. During this concert, the artists will be playing some of his previously unreleased works.
JMI Youth Big Band Live at Jamboree – Jewish Music Institute
23 March 2025, 11am at the Munich Jewish Museum
As part of the International Weeks Against Racism 2025, the museum is organising a workshop to raise awareness of the history of Munich’s Jews. The workshop will use objects from the exhibition as well as textual and photographic sources. In particular, the difficult questions of history will be raised, reflecting on the issues, contexts and individual histories. Around these questions, the participants actively shape the workshop and draw up individual CVs.
Musée juif de Munich – Détails
From 21 March to 16 November 2025
A face shattered by history facing a mirror shattered by the inspiring and creative force of that face… The Jewish Museum Frankfurt is presenting an exhibition on the artist Léo Maillet (1902-1990). Born Leopold Meyer in Frankfurt, where he began his studies before having to provide for his family’s material needs, he left Germany after the Nazis took power. Living in France as a photographer, he escaped again and lived under a false identity before finding refuge in Switzerland in 1944. The exhibition presents the self-portraits created by Léo Maillet during his exile that escaped destruction by the Nazis.
Léo Maillet: The Broken Mirror – Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt
24 March 2025, 5pm at the Jewish Museum Berlin
The National Library of Israel is lending 15 drawings by Kafka from its archives to the Jewish Museum Berlin. To mark the occasion, Stefan Litt, a Kafka expert working at the library, will give a tour of these archives. He will be accompanied by the curator Shelley Harten, with whom they will discuss Kafka’s work and the organisation of this exhibition.
Kafka visiting from Jerusalem | Jewish Museum Berlin
On 20 March, at 7pm, the iconic rue des Rosiers café will be hosting a concert-reading entitled ‘Musical trip in a Yiddish world’, in which extracts from the book The Yiddish World will be read by its author Olivier Peyroux, accompanied by the Yiddish songs of Sisterke (Alina Baba and Lucia Todoran). On 25 March, at 6.30pm, Wladimir Gutovski, Sylvie Adler and Isy Morgensztern host a discussion entitled ‘Benny Lévy, Texts for the People’.
Le programme du Café des Psaumes
From 24 May to 22 September 2025
Young or old, Marc Chagall kept the same naive and curious eye, questioning himself and eager to learn about and create new artistic paths. After the war, he experimented with stained glass, as shown by his works from Jerusalem to Metz, tapestry, ceramics and mosaics. This was particularly true in sunny Vence when he returned to France in 1949. Between 1958 and 1986, Chagall created fourteen mosaics in the south of France (Nice, Vence, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Les-Arcs-sur-Argens), the United States (Chicago and Washington), Israel (Jerusalem) and Switzerland.
De verre et de pierre. Chagall en mosaïque | Musée National Marc Chagall
16 March 2025 at the Centre Edmond Fleg
This astonishing musical encounter featuring Benyamin Greilsammer on harpsichord and Ilan Greilsammer reading texts takes the audience back to the time of the Marranos to follow this astonishing Duarte family and discover the issues and complexities of an era.
18 May 2025 at the Espace Rachi – Guy de Rothschild
80 years after Anne Frank was murdered during the Holocaust, the Shiru Shir choir is paying musical tribute to her with ‘Annelies’, an oratorio composed in 2005 by James Whitbourn based on extracts from her famous diary. Under the direction of Laurence Temime, 50 choristers, soloist Juliana Sula and an instrumental quartet will be on hand that evening to share a moving performance with the audience.
Centre d’Art et de Culture Juive – Annelies – Centre d’Art et de Culture Juive
Until 30 June 2025 at the Shoah Memorial
To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camps, the Shoah Memorial and leading directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano are paying tribute to the last survivors. This is done through a series of five never-before-seen video vignettes devoted to survivors of the camps. Larissa Cain, Judith Elkán, Ginette Kolinka, Yvette Lévy and Léon Placek share their experiences of anti-Semitic persecution and deportation. A duty of remembrance and transmission for young people. The exhibition is coordinated by Clara Lainé.
Mémorial de la Shoah | Boutique en ligne
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 the Atlantic, men and women, such as Emma Goldman. At this conference, the great historian Philippe Boukara presents the trade union struggle of Jewish workers in search of a concrete improvement in living conditions.
From 13 March to 31 August 2025 at the mahJ
More than 250 archive documents, photographs, film extracts, and some sixty works of art are brought together for this extraordinary exhibition devoted to Alfred Dreyfus. This is 20 years after the first exhibition dedicated to him at this very venue, surrounding his statue in the courtyard. A new look at the ‘Affair’, with the aim of better understanding the historical stakes of an era and one man’s fight for truth and dignity. Among the works on display are those by Jacques-Émile Blanche, Gustave Caillebotte, Eugène Carrière, Émile Gallé, Maximilien Luce, Camille Pissarro, Félix Vallotton and Édouard Vuillard.
Alfred Dreyfus. Vérité et justice | Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme
16 March 2025, 3pm at mahJ
DJ Sharouh mixes the sounds of different generations from the many shores of the Mediterranean and beyond with great enthusiasm and talent. She was a particular hit at the Iranian night at La Bellevilloise organised by the Sacré Sound Festival in 2024. For Purim, she gets the audience up and dancing to the treasures of Judeo-Arab music! On the programme: music, fancy dress, dance… and a narration of the Book of Esther for the little ones by actor Michael Zindel, who made his name in Noé Debré’s film The Last Jew…
An evening in partnership with the Café des Psaumes and the Œuvre de secours aux enfants.
Bal de Pourim 2025. « Ya Hasra ! » | Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme
3 June 2025, 8.30pm at La Bellevilloise
One year after its fabulous and surprising Iranian evening at La Bellevilloise, mixing lyrical and pop songs and ending with a DJ set, the Sacré Sound Festival returns to the stage of this festive hotspot in eastern Paris. This time it will be headlined by Neta Elkayam, an Israeli-Moroccan artist who blends Jewish music from North Africa with jazz, Amazigh and Andalusian sounds. She performs in a duet with her husband, musician and video artist Amit Hai Cohen. Winner of the Moroccan TMM Trophy in 2022 for promoting the Moroccan Jewish voice, she has collaborated with artists such as Karim Ziad and Maurice El Médiouni.
PROGRAMMATION | SACRÉ SOUND FESTIVAL
21 May 2025, 8.30pm at JEM Copernic
Like the klezmer artists of Eastern Europe and the black American artists of the Southern States, music enables Kurdish artists to confront the painful pages of history and to fight for the sharing of a culture. Kurdish music, like its people, is shared in its diversity across the territory where this population lives between four countries (Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria). Eléonore Fourniau’s music is imbued with her experience in France and her encounters with the communities of Anatolia, creating a highly original and lively sound. An evening organised by the Sacré Sound Festival.