At the CIG on 9 April 2024
Following the warm reception of previous editions by the public, the Jewish Community of Geneva is renewing these literary events linked to Jewish culture. Authors are invited to share their works and contemporary views, before the signing sessions.
From 17 May to 16 December 2024 at the Polin Museum
This exhibition gives visitors an insight into Jewish life in Opatow through the works of the painter Mayer Kirshenblatt. All those characters who populate the tales of so many Yiddish authors in the 1001 shtetls of Eastern Europe. Although most of these villages have disappeared, literary and artistic memories remain, a wonderful way of prolonging Jewish life. Artistic interventions in the town of Opatow today will also be presented.
From 31 May 2024 at the Jewish Museum Amsterdam and the National Holocaust Museum
This exhibition allows visitors to see how citizens were stripped of their rights and then their possessions. This is done through the personal stories of eight Jews during the Shoah. Then, the way in which the survivors and the families of the victims tried to recover their stolen property.
Exhibition Looted | Jewish Museum |… | Jewish Cultural Quarter (jck.nl)
At the Jewish Museum Oslo
This exhibition gives visitors a better understanding of the origins of Jewish migration to Norway at the turn of the 20th century. What were the countries of origin and the reasons for the departures, according to the challenges of history. But also how the Jews adapted their customs and traditions to Norwegian life. Texts, photos, music and objects are presented to the public, telling these very different stories.
Heia jødene! (jodiskmuseumoslo.no)
The tour begins at the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights in Esch-sur-Alzette. The tour takes visitors on a journey of remembrance through the town, visiting various places that recall the tragic hours of the Second World War, the resistance of the population to forced Germanisation and the liberation of the town. Among the places visited are the museum, the Place de la Synagogue and the Town Hall.
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Until 13 October 2024 at the National Museum of the Mountain
This exhibition, organised in partnership with the Centre d’études Primo Levi, allows visitors to discover the link between the author and the mountains. On display are his texts, as well as photos, documents, objects and video extracts from public and private archives, including those of Primo Levi’s family. A strong link linked to the expression “to go to the mountains” during the war, signifying the choice to join the partisan struggle, but also to the fact that the author was arrested in the Valle d’Aosta.
– Articoli in primo piano – – Torino Ebraica
27 and 28 March 2024 in San Giovanni Park
80 years after the deportation of people from Trieste’s hospitals, a commemorative event is being organised by the Carlo and Vera Wagner Museum, in partnership with the Department of Mental Health and Addictions of the Giuliano Isontina University and the Humanities Department of the University of Trieste. On 28 March 1944, 47 Jews were arrested in the city’s hospitals by Nazi troops and subsequently deported. While dealing with this subject, this event also aims to share with the public contemporary issues in this area, and the role of medicine in caring for and protecting humanity.
The Betrayed Care 1944-2024 – Museo Ebraico di Trieste (museoebraicotrieste.it)
At the Museo Sefardi, from 5 to 7 April 2024
Following the success of the previous edition in 2023, the museum is offering to explore medieval Jewish theatre through the music, dance, mime, pantomime and costumes that accompanied these stage performances. The main focus is on satirical plays that mock both the Jews and the conditions in which they lived, which varied from place to place and from period to period. These plays were often linked to the Purim festival, encouraging a variety of performances and the use of masks and characters to break many taboos on what was perceived as the “day of fools”.
At the Danish Jewish Museum
The museum presents this very special exhibition devoted to the difficult theme of persecution and flight in contemporary European history. It’s about the situations that encouraged Jews to migrate to Denmark, but also about the courage of the Danish people in helping them to escape during the Second World War. The exhibition is accompanied by objects from these periods, as well as drawings by Kristian Bay Kirk. The exhibition not only evokes the past, but also questions the present.
Until 1 September 2024 at the Jewish Museum of Belgium
The museum will soon be closed for major renovations. This exhibition is the last to be presented before these works take place. The Passage is a central theme in Judaism, best known for its connection with the festival of Pesach and the passage through the desert that enabled the people of Israel to prepare for their arrival in the Holy Land, having regained their status as free men and women. The tour takes visitors on a number of different journeys to explore the way in which the spiritual and secular spheres interact. But also in the spheres associating ritual with the ordinary, the intimate with the collective.
Passage. Textiles & Rituals – Musée Juif de Belgique (mjb-jmb.org)
5 May 2024 at 2pm
The CCLJ and the Maison de la Culture Juive are presenting a themed walk in the company of a guide, as they do regularly to give participants a better understanding of Brussels’ Jewish history and cultural heritage. This time, the tour will focus on Marolles and the surrounding area, which was home to many refugees from Eastern Europe, particularly between the wars.
Until 1 September 2024 at the Jewish Museum Vienna
Based on the concepts of tikkun olam and tzedakah, the exhibition examines the approach to suffering through violence, illness, poverty and depression. How this suffering affects others and creates a societal and individual need to respond to it. The exhibition presents the medical, psychological and social programmes carried out in Vienna, in particular the important role played by Jewish doctors for the city throughout the ages, but also in hiding during the war.
Exhibitions | Jüdisches Museum Wien (jmw.at)
From 26 April to 4 November 2024 at the Sigmund Freud Museum
This exhibition takes up the complex challenge of unravelling the links between psychoanalysis and art, notably through the works of Louise Bourgeois, Heidi Bucher, Gregory Crewdson, Robert Gober, Birgit Jürgensen, Hans Op de Beek, Markus Schinwald, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, Kai Walkowiak and Francesca Woodman. How the particular feeling of anxiety appears in human consciousness and in artworks, and is then perceived in society. As early as 1919, Freud wrote on this subject, showing how poetic works contained many levels of reading, revealing in particular the share of anxiety in the author and the reader.
THE UNCANNY. Sigmund Freud and Art – www.freud-museum.at/en
2 May 2024
This film, directed by Paula S. Apsell and Kirk Wolfinger in 2023, deconstructs the myth of Jewish passivity during the war in the face of the Nazi machine of destruction. In fact, far from allowing themselves to be led to their deaths, they were very much involved in an individual and collective struggle, joining their country’s armies and then, following the invasion, joining various Resistance groups across Europe. It was a struggle that took place in cities, ghettos, forests and even camps.
Resistance: They Fought Back – UK Jewish Film
4 April 2024 at the Jewish Museum Manchester
Spring is a time when nature and its colours are once again making their presence felt in our towns and cities. It’s a time to encourage creativity. This original workshop allows participants to use plants and flowers to create drawings. They will be shown some astonishing previous creations, but they are also encouraged to bring plants that inspire them for their creations.
Manchester Jewish Museum — Make It! Printing with Plants
Until 4 April 2024
This major exhibition presents a thousand years of British Jewish history, through well-known objects and others never before shown to the public. The golden ages, but also the painful periods of British Judaism, are presented throughout the rooms, from the settlement of the Jews, their expulsion, their return and integration, but also the present and the challenges to come.
Discover: Jewish Museum London @ Swiss Cottage Library – The Jewish Museum London
From 18 to 23 August 2024 at SOAS
The Jewish Music Institute (JMI) is offering you an intense session to discover the world and the Yiddish language. A week of immersion in which beginners and advanced students share their enthusiasm for Yiddish in a variety of workshops. Through music, theatre, poetry and lectures on the past and future of the language. Among the teachers are Shura Lipovsky, Khayele Beer, Sima Beeri, Simo Muir and Osian Sharma.
OT AZOY 2024 – LEARN YIDDISH – Jewish Music Institute (jmi.org.uk)
Before the war, the Jewish community was as diverse as other European Jewish communities. With its characters, personal experiences, professional achievements… This exhibition presents characters as diverse as a child in a sailor suit, a woman in a beret with very thick sleeves, and a rabbi reading a prayer book. These are works that have been found over time, and we often don’t know who they represent or even who made them. We are left to imagine their history, the way the artists looked at them and the trace the models wished to leave of them.
Jüdisches Museum München – Preview (juedisches-museum-muenchen.de)
From 19 April to 1 September 2024 at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt
Mirjam Presseler (1940-2019) was a great translator, notably of the Diary of Anne Frank and of Israeli works by Amos Oz, Zeruya Shalev, Batya Gur, etc. She was also an author and painter. This exhibition invites visitors to enter her imaginary world and explore their own creativity, pushing back the boundaries. The author’s imagination was nourished by her personal experiences of a difficult childhood and her need to escape to creativity and sources of happiness, particularly in her relationship with Judaism and Israel.
Mirjam Pressler – Schreiben ist Glück – Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt (juedischesmuseum.de)
From 17 May to 6 October 2024 at the Jewish Museum Berlin
It was not only Freud who was interested in the place of sexuality in society and in Judaism. This question is present in biblical texts, but also in other ancient documents, works of art and new forms of expression. The exhibition attempts to address this subject, particularly in the context of the centrality of marriage, procreation and desire, but also taboos and the evolution of these perceptions in Judaism. This exhibition is presented in cooperation with the Jewish Museum Amsterdam.
Sex: Jewish Positions | Jewish Museum Berlin (jmberlin.de)
8 April 2024 at 8pm at the Maison de la Poésie
Inspired by his experience as a librarian, the great texts of Russian literature, the popular language of Muscovites and the exploratory madness of pop art, Lev Rubinstein has left his mark on poetry. In form, by publishing his texts on a series of index cards, and in content, by exploring the emotions and feelings of the opponent of the regime that he was. The Maison de la Poésie and the Institut Européen Emmanuel Levinas are organising a tribute to the poet killed recently. An evening presented by Gérard Rabinovitch. It will begin with a musical reading by Laurent Natrella and Jean-Claude Ghrenassia, followed by a discussion with Galia Ackerman, Hélène Henry-Safier and Valérie Zenatti.
Hommage à Lev Rubinstein – Maison de la poésie (maisondelapoesieparis.com)
2 April 2024 at the Palais de la Méditerranée in Nice
The philosopher examines the shock provoked by the pogrom of 7 October and the international consequences at various levels. This presentation is part of a national tour that will continue in Marseille on 3 April and Lyon on 4 April.
2 April 2024 at 6.30pm at the Institut Méditerranéen Universitaire Maimonide
Pierre-Yves Kirschleger, senior lecturer in contemporary history at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III, presents the evolution of this dialogue over the last century. From the commitment of Christian individuals and institutions to saving Jews during the war, to the work of Jules Isaac and the outcome of Vatican II, which brought the two religions closer together. But there are also moments of tension and contemporary challenges.
From 14 March to 20 April 2024 at the Galerie Schwab Beaubourg
From Mukachevo to Parisian bohemia by way of Jerusalem, Samuel Ackerman combines cultures and softly installs his works on nature, like his Golem in the middle of the Negev desert. He invites us to try and capture what lies between heaven and earth, these signs of life and survival, these encouragements to joy and to surpass oneself. Armed with brushes and pencils, he shares these reenchanting colours in a wide variety of places, just as a certain elder from Vitebsk did on the ceiling of the Opera House or in Metz Cathedral. Samuel Ackerman invites you to follow his inspiration on the walls of Paris for a month…
Galerie Schwab Beaubourg | Galerie d’art | 35 R. Quincampoix, 75004 Paris, France
From 1 June to 16 September 2024 at the Musée national Marc Chagall
Exile, wars, pogroms, the Shoah… so many painful pages through which the painter has passed in the 20th century since his childhood in Vitebsk. His art enabled him to respond to horror, to perpetuate the memory of people from his childhood and those close to him, and to give new colour to the beautiful pages of history lived in places that were at times peaceful. This exhibition highlights the painter’s use of pencils and brushes to achieve this asymptotic ideal of peace. Recent research has been carried out on a large number of previously unpublished documents, some of which come from the artist’s archives.
4 April 2024 at 7pm at the Shoah Memorial
On the occasion of the 30th commemoration of the genocide, this conference aims to take stock of the state of knowledge, understanding and deepening of the duty of history and remembrance. It will be attended by historians Jean-Pierre Chrétien and Marcel Kabanda, and will be moderated by the great reporter Patrick de Saint-Exupéry.
Mémorial de la Shoah | Boutique en ligne (memorialdelashoah.org)
18 May 2024 at 4.30pm at the House of Yiddish Culture
The famous Yiddish author asked his children to get together on each anniversary of his death to read aloud some of his funniest texts, as a way of sharing his work with joy, even in his absence. It’s a wish shared by the House of Yiddish Culture. Excerpts from Tevye le laitier will be read, and the short story from Les Gens de Kasrilevke will be staged, with actors Annick Prime-Margules, Laurence Fisbein and Michel Fisbein.
From 4 April 2024 to 27 April 2025 at the mahJ
As part of this programme, the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme is highlighting the lives and work of the women artists in its collections. The first exhibition is devoted to Charlotte Henschel (1892-1985), Georgette Meyer (1916-2020) and Sonia Steinsapir (1912-1980). The exhibition looks at the career paths, artistic expressions and influences of these artists, who all came from different places and all shared the choice of Paris and the freedom that the city represented for them. A city where they could create freely and where they managed to hide during the War.
Nouvelles venues | Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme (mahj.org)
17 March, 28 April, 26 May and 16 June 2024
The links between Judaism and ecology go back a very long way, and are particularly marked by the presence of these themes in the Bible around the respect due to nature, the working of the land and its rest, as well as the animal condition. La Manne is the think tank of Judaism on the Move (JEM) and studies these links, cross-referencing texts from Jewish tradition with contemporary issues thanks to contributions from experts. The lectures will be given by Tamara Settbon, Adam Forrai and Tamia Menez B’Chiri and will take place in the centre of Paris, at a venue to be announced to those registered.
La Manne, laboratoire d’idées – Judaïsme En Mouvement (judaismeenmouvement.org)
The CBL regularly organises visits to these emblematic sites in Médan. Visitors can follow the story of these two great men and their common fight for the values and dignity of the French Republic. The aim is to share with future generations the values of these two men and their courage in the face of adversity, by showing the xenophobic speeches and anti-Semitic caricatures. But also the texts and images of support, including many Armenian authors.