8 and 9 October 2024, 8pm at Espace Rachi – Guy de Rothschild
To pay tribute to the victims, musicians, singers and actors will take to the stage on two evenings organised by the Les Théâtres de Rachi. Sharing texts, poems and songs of remembrance and consolation. It’s a clear commitment to resilience, to standing up after demonstrations of inhuman brutality, in order to fight against oblivion, drive out hatred and work for peace.
Centre d’Art et de Culture Juive – Vivre ! – Centre d’Art et de Culture Juive (culture-juive.fr)
September 21 and 22, 2024, at 9:30 pm at the Synagogue di Alessandria and the Synagogue di Vercelli
As part of the Nessiah Music Festival 2024, and following the many events organized during the European Day of Jewish Culture on September 15, two concerts are proposed. The first allows the rather original encounter between tango and Jewish music, while the second offers nothing more and nothing less than a musical dream return to the beginning of the 20th century.
Torino Ebraica – Comunità Ebraica di Torino
October 29, 2024, at 8 p.m.
The Jewish Community of Geneva (CIG), in partnership with Gil, B’nai B’rith and Geneva Jewish Heritage, is offering a series of tours on prominent Genevan Jewish women in the city. Starting with the Spierer family. A family whose daring humanitarian actions saved thousands of Greek lives during the Balkan War in 1916-18 and the Smyrna catastrophe in 1922.
January 17, 2025, between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. at the Jewish Museum of Switzerland
Every year in January, from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., 40 museums and cultural institutions in the Basel region offer a varied artistic and cultural program, in dialogue with literature, music, cinema and theater. Among these, the Jewish Museum of Switzerland, allowing visitors an original approach to its journey and its works.
Evénements – Juedisches Museum Schweiz (juedisches-museum.ch)
Until January 17, 2025 at the Maribor Synagogue
This exhibition highlights Slovak Jewish women or women from the country whose work resonates internationally. Women’s careers chosen from a wide spectrum of disciplines: science, arts, economics. Which are linked to different eras and challenges.
Women. Stories of Women Who Influenced the World – Sinagoga Maribor
At the Jewish Museum of Galicia
Renia Spiegel (1924-1942) wrote this childhood diary in Przemysl during the last three years of her short life. A source of history that helps us better understand the period, but also a work of Polish Jewish literature, it bears witness to the talent of this young woman murdered by the Nazis at the age of 18. The Jewish Museum of Galicia, in partnership with the Foundation for Education and Art, as well as the American Consulate in Krakow, produced a series of short films as part of an educational mission. These present Renia’s journey, her personality and her work, while contextualizing this through written and photographic archives.
Until 16 March 2025 at the JHI
This exhibition has been organised to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the Lodz ghetto. For four years, 200,000 Jews were imprisoned there, both natives of Lodz and those deported from other towns and regions. Many perished from starvation and disease due to the harsh conditions, while others were deported and murdered in the camps. The exhibition looks back at the particularly harsh conditions in which they survived. Despite this, some prisoners found the strength and courage to document these conditions, which will also be presented during the exhibition.
From 22 November 2024 at the Jewish Museum Amsterdam
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.
SEX: Jewish Positions | Exhibition | Jewish… | Jewish Cultural Quarter (jck.nl)
From 1 February to 4 May 2025 at the Rembrandt Museum
Samuel van Hoogstraten worked with the master in his studio, learning in particular about the link between illusion and visual deception. This exhibition provides an opportunity to discover his work and Rembrandt’s influence on it, as well as on the works of other students. Van Hoogstraten did not limit himself to painting, publishing books on painting techniques. This exhibition has been produced in partnership with the Vienna Museum of Art History.
The illusionist – Rembrandthuis
At the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights, on 17 November 2024 at 7.30pm
In this lecture, historians Daniel Thilman and Karola Fings will focus on the history of the Porajmos, the murder of the Sinti and Roma, as well as the fight for remembrance and the historical treatment of this genocide. The lecture is part of the ‘Forgotten Victims’ exhibition, which is on show at the museum until 22 December 2024.
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At the Jewish Museum of Latvia
Born Meiers Joffe in Vitebsk, like another famous colleague, the painter Mihails Jo lived most of his life in Riga, where he pursued many other artistic activities as a graphic designer, theatre set designer, teacher and art critic. Using decorative elements, drawings and book illustrations, the exhibition presents this creative diversity. Some of the works are from the permanent collection of the Jewish Museum of Latvia, while others are presented exclusively.
17 November, 2pm
The House of Jewish Culture, in partnership with the CCLJ, is organising a guided tour of the Cureghem synagogue, inaugurated in 1933, in this working-class district of Brussels. This was a time when many Jews fled the pogroms of Eastern Europe and the rise of Nazism in Germany. It is one of the last remaining Jewish buildings from this period, which is why it is so important to visit it. In 2024, the Jewish community, keen to preserve its heritage, had the Anderlecht synagogue classified as a Monument by the Region.
La Synagogue Art-Déco d’Anderlecht – La Maison de la Culture Juive
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 Brussels. Not least in this district, which is best known in Europe today for the football club that bears its name. The book presents a polyphonic account of the economic and cultural life of local Jews from the 19th century to the present day.
Le triangle à Anderlecht : Mémoires juives d’un quartier – CCLJ
Until 16 March 2025 at Museum Dorotheergasse
Eighty years after the Shoah, the last witnesses are disappearing. The challenge is to share their memory in the broadest sense of the term. Individual memory of shattered lives, collective memory that also serves to combat new genocides. The generation of survivors armed themselves with this formidable resilience to show that they would not only survive, that they would live and work tirelessly to ensure that the lives of future generations would be happy. The second generation was confronted with the silences in the face of the need to rebuild, and this wave of the past was difficult for their parents to confront. This exhibition provides an opportunity to analyse the variety of ways in which the third generation approached this memory and their involvement in humanist struggles around the world, as well as their fears for future generations.
Exhibition Detail | Jüdisches Museum Wien (jmw.at)
3 November 2024, 10am
This guided tour allows participants to discover the permanent exhibition, which tells the story of the Jewish community from the 17th century to the Shoah, as well as the survivors’ return with the debates of the time about the duty to remember and the difficulty of confronting these issues with the many dead and exiled. Visitors discover the stories and challenges of each period, through the stories of local families, as well as daily life and the celebration of Jewish festivals. The tour continues in the former Jewish quarter of Hohenems. Audioguides in English are provided for this tour.
Jüdisches Museum Hohenems (jm-hohenems.at)
From 7 to 17 November 2024 in London and Manchester
Eleven days dedicated to sharing the diversity of Jewish-themed cinema. Local and international works to share the historical and family moments of yesteryear, to understand contemporary issues, future concerns and the emotions that run through all these times and places in this essential vehicle for the emotional palette that is cinema. As the great works of Jewish cinema are not in the habit of dodging these subjects, there is no doubt that the films presented at this new edition will surprise audiences once again.
UK Jewish Film Festival 2024 – UK Jewish Film
From 27 October to 17 November 2024
Manchester’s Jewish community recently celebrated 150 years of the Iberian Synagogue. It is continuing these celebrations by organising a series of cultural events this autumn. These include the sharing of Sephardic tales through Hasidic music and drama. Starting with a musical evening on 27 October in the company of Nani Vazane, a Ladino songwriter whose songs meet the emotional theatricality of flamenco. Other events at the festival include a concert by eclectic artist Dekel on 31 October, the singers of Vache Baroque on 3 November, a musical walk with Rabbi Danny Bergson on 10 November and the one-act play ‘Mathiarch’ by Jessica Litwak on 17 November.
Manchester Jewish Museum — Synagogue Nights 2024
From 20 to 25 December 2024
Since the turn of the 21st century, the Limoud festival has established itself as a key event in Jewish cultural sharing. In England, where it was born, and today throughout the world. All kinds of Jewish cultural enthusiasts take their turn as lecturers, artists or spectators in these exchanges on a wide variety of themes. Without taboos, but always with the desire to share. The December event in England is the biggest of its kind, providing a week-long opportunity to appreciate this wide range of cultures.
From 4 to 6 April 2025 in Youlgrave, Derbyshire
Klezmer never ceases to enchant musical evenings around the world. With its ancient inspiration, its travels and sharing of styles and fashions, but also with the joy it brings, especially in worrying times. This magnificent festival gives participants the chance to get together for a few days and learn more about klezmer, but also, and above all, to take part in artistic creation and join enthusiasts from the four corners of England and beyond.
KlezNorth | A festival of Klezmer music, dance and song
7 November 2024, 8pm in London
DJ Mizz, accompanied by Ronen Kozokaro on the darbouka and a belly dancer will share oriental music and dance with the audience in a spirit of brotherhood. An inclusive event where cultural differences add spice to this musical encounter. The event takes place in a bar close to Russell Square. Don’t hesitate to contact the organisers for more information.
MIZZ RAQI – 7.11 – Jewish Music Institute (jmi.org.uk)
Until 2 March 2025 at the Frankfurt Jewish Museum
In the space dedicated to the museum’s permanent exhibition, you will find a room housing portraits drawn by the artist Else Meidner (1901-1987). These portraits, which also include self-portraits, form an important part of her work, with a hint of melancholy running through it – hence the title of the exhibition, chosen to reflect the emotion felt by the artist and by visitors to her work. In the first part of the 20th century, few women artists were accepted as such. Else Meidner, née Meyer, lived for a long time in the shadow of her painter husband, Ludwig Meidner.
Else Meidner. Melancholia – Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt (juedischesmuseum.de)
From 13 December 2024 to 4 May 2025 at the Jewish Museum Berlin
The 100th anniversary of the great writer’s death has prompted the organisation of numerous cultural events paying tribute to him across Europe, starting of course with Prague. The exhibition dedicated to him in Berlin questions the place of his intellectual legacy, particularly in the context of a dialogue with contemporary works of art. The exhibition also aims to explore new perspectives on his texts.
Access Kafka | Jewish Museum Berlin (jmberlin.de)
Until 31 October 2024 at the Centre culturel Anna et Simon Drahi in Levallois
The artist Eva Pelles explores many of the symbols present in art and in our everyday lives, especially for this exhibition the fish that caresses the blue of her canvases and the Hebrew letters that dance on them. This is achieved through a magical encounter between ancient stories and references and contemporary artistic techniques that allow Eva Pelles to share her work by day, pushed a little further each time the curtain rises on her nocturnal dreams.
CCL – Les activités du centre communautaire juif de Levallois (ccl-levallois.com)
17 November 2024, 5.30pm at the Théâtre Antoine Watteau, Nogent-sur-Marne
As part of the 2024 edition of the Jazz’N’Klezmer Festival, in partnership with the Maison de la culture juive, the evening will feature two exceptional concerts. First up is the duo of Denis Cuniot (piano) and Yannick Thepault (clarinet). They will share with the audience works by Maurice Ravel, Dmitri Shostakovich, Joseph Kosma and Joachim Stutschewski, linked to Jewish culture and traditional Klezmer music. Next up on stage are the Yes! Trio perform their third album: Spring Sings. A trio made up of three artists from very different family, geographical and historical backgrounds, united by their love of swing and jazz, from Motown to Yemen Blues. With Omer Avital on double bass, Aaron Goldberg on piano and Ali Jackson on drums.
FESTIVAL JAZZ ‘N’ KLEZMER – Yes Trio – FESTIVAL JAZZ ‘N’ KLEZMER (jazznklezmer.fr)
6 November 2024, 8.30pm at the Alhambra
As part of the 2024 edition of the Jazz’N’Klezmer Festival, this musical presentation takes on the moving and difficult task of telling the story of Les Enfants d’Izieu in music, recounting their short lives. Starting with the text, the music is added to amplify the emotions and share them with the audience. All original compositions by Lionel Belmondo, who also aims to pay tribute to the great French composers who inspired him throughout his life: Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honneger, Francis Poulenc, and above all, Jehan Alain, who died for France in 1940.
FESTIVAL JAZZ ‘N’ KLEZMER – Les Enfants d’Izieu – FESTIVAL JAZZ ‘N’ KLEZMER (jazznklezmer.fr)
17 November 2024 at 6.30pm at Espace Paul Benhaïm
As part of the 2024 edition of the Jazz’N’Klezmer Festival, virtuoso clarinettist Marine Goldwaser will once again be enchanting the Klezmer scene. Her Petit Mish-Mash, the ensemble she founded, draws on the repertoire of traditional Romanian music, adding its own energy and style. After working with master equestrian Bartabas, Marine Goldwaser delved into the sound archives of the early 20th century to set to music the charms and tensions of a traditional Yiddish wedding. With five soloists in a spirit that is above all a celebration of life and its passions.
FESTIVAL JAZZ ‘N’ KLEZMER – Noces Yiddish à Marseille – FESTIVAL JAZZ ‘N’ KLEZMER (jazznklezmer.fr)
23 November, 8.30pm at the FSJU Rhône-Alpes
As part of the 2024 edition of the Jazz’N’Klezmer Festival, Mahaleb draws on the sounds and pains of the past to propose a musical rapprochement and a spirit of brotherhood between Turkish and Armenian music. In this astonishing musical rollercoaster, festive and melancholy melodies mingle and follow one another, influenced as they are by contemporary emotions linked to the realities of love and personal journeys.
FESTIVAL JAZZ ‘N’ KLEZMER – Mahaleb à Lyon – FESTIVAL JAZZ ‘N’ KLEZMER (jazznklezmer.fr)
13 November, 7.30pm at the Salle Pétrarque
As part of the 2024 edition of the Jazz’N’Klezmer Festival, an ensemble of Swiss, Polish, Bulgarian and French artists unite around Marc Crofts in a quest to revive a forgotten klezmer repertoire. A tradition dating back to the beginning of the last century, the folk elements enter into dialogue with the modern tools available to the instrumentalists. Classical music, jazz, music from the Balkans, Ukraine, Turkey and Greece are blended with individual contributions in the service of the musical collective and the enjoyment of the audience.
9 November 2024, 10pm at Espace Rachi – Guy de Rothschild
As part of the 2024 edition of the Jazz’N’Klezmer Festival, the festival is welcoming the Canadian ensemble Oktopus, one of Quebec’s leading world music groups, to France for the first time. Klezmer isn’t just about travelling from East to West, and jazz isn’t just about travelling from America to Europe. This astonishing world music combines interpretations of the klezmer repertoire, jazz and Balkan music, tinged with an accent of classical music, a long way off in time. With Gabriel Paquin-Buki on clarinet, composition and arrangements, Matthieu Bourget on bass trombone, Noémie Caron-Marcotte on flute, Madeleine Doyon on tenor trombone, Maxime Philippe on drums and percussion, Francis Pigeon on trumpet, Laetitia Francoz Lévesque on violin and Guillaume Martineau on piano,
FESTIVAL JAZZ ‘N’ KLEZMER – Oktopus – FESTIVAL JAZZ ‘N’ KLEZMER (jazznklezmer.fr)
11 November 2024, 5pm at the Angers synagogue
As part of the 2024 edition of the Jazz’N’Klezmer Festival, the Pletzl Bandit is once again taking audiences on a journey through its klezmer universe, with a surprising new approach after so many years of sharing its enthusiasm on stages across France and Europe. The band is made up of Gheorghe Ciumasu on accordion, Charles Rappoport on violin, Samuel Maquin on clarinet and Henry Kisiel on double bass.
FESTIVAL JAZZ ‘N’ KLEZMER – Pletzl Bandit à Angers – FESTIVAL JAZZ ‘N’ KLEZMER (jazznklezmer.fr)