From 18 to 23 August 2024
This year, experienced artists will be joining forces with teachers to share their enthusiasm for klezmer in a variety of ways. Everyone learning, playing and sharing at their own pace and level. In small ensembles of artists specially created for the occasion. Although a certain level of instrumental playing is required. It’s time to klezmerise your summer…
Klezfest 2024 – Learn, Play and Perform Klezmer – Jewish Music Institute (jmi.org.uk)
21 May 2024 at 7pm, at the Rashi Institute
In the 1940s, the New York students and musicians who would become the great artists and writers of the following decade, such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, met in cafés to share poetry and jazz sessions. On 21 May, the Rashi Institute offers you a wonderful evening combining poetry and music. Around the works of great 20th century women poets, inspired by Jewish culture. They will be read by Odile Cohen and Laurent Natrella, with musical accompaniment by Nathan Kuperminc. The evening is presented by Gérard Rabinovitch, philosopher, Vice-President of the Rashi Institute and Director of the Emmanuel Levinas Institute-AIU. Therefore, you’re just a few notes and words away from happiness…
Registration at 03 10 95 30 07 ou contact@institut-rachi troyes.fr
16 June 2024 at the Espace Rachi – Guy de Rothschild
Dancing again, singing again, sharing culture and laughter, references and memories. A long and wonderful day awaits you, with klezmer dance workshops, meetings and conferences, including association stands. There will also be book signings and a round-table discussion moderated by Lise Amiel-Gutmann. And to convince you, a klezmer dance by the Kalarash ensemble will get you in the mood from the start of the day at 11am, followed by the Jacinta’s Zingers Choir…
Festival des Cultures Juives – « Paroles en fête » – Festival des Cultures Juives
23 May 2024 at the Espace Rachi – Guy de Rothschild
A famous photo of Golda Meir’s government showed her more than 50 years ago, surrounded only by men. Times change, but it was already an honour for Israel to be among the first democratic countries to be headed by a woman. Author Rachel Khan, who is deeply committed to fighting discrimination and defending republican values, will read extracts from Golda Meir’s two autobiographical books. Two women, two eras, two struggles, and a chance to share them with the public on 23 May.
From 1 June to 16 September 2024 at Musée national Marc Chagall
From his native shtetl to the great cities of today’s world, Marc Chagall has lived through the ages. He lived through great encounters in artistic hives where Bohemian influences buzzed, then by sharing his work on the stained-glass windows of a hospital in Jerusalem and a cathedral in Metz. Or, looking up at the world from the ceiling of the Opéra de Paris, a man who was already old but as curious as ever. But he also confronted the violence of man and the limits crossed by executioners from generation to generation. These traces are also present in his work and are presented in this exhibition.
5 June 2024 at the Centre Fleg
The four-piece group Lola will be covering the great hits of French pop rock to celebrate the return of spring in an evening of enthusiasm and sharing around the hits that marked the heyday of this style that never seems to go out of fashion, on the contrary…
https://centrefleg.com/evenement/
2 June 2024 at the Shoah Memorial
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Tutsi genocide, the Memorial has been organising a number of historical, literary and musical events over the past few months, as well as an exhibition. On 2 June, starting at 2.30pm, the words of survivors will be shared, following an introduction by historian Marcel Kabanda. Among those taking part will be survivors Yvonne Foucaud, Marie-Ange Rutayisire (author of ‘Pourquoi j’ai toujours peur des chiens’), Révérien Rurangwa (author of ‘Génocidé’) and Esther Mujawayo (author of ‘SurVivantes’).
Mémorial de la Shoah | Boutique en ligne (memorialdelashoah.org)
8 June 2024 at the House of Yiddish Culture
A Book Fair will bring together a host of authors and translators, including Sylvie-Anne Goldberg, Annette Wieviorka, Talila, Virginie Linhart and Michael Sibony, Robert Bobert, Henri Raczymov, Arnaud Bikard, Magali Bertrand, Carole Mann, Elise Golberg, Bernard Suchecky, Katia Faber-Simbler and Ami Flammer. There will also be a number of publishing houses, including Editions Bibliothèque Medem, Editions de L’Antilope and Editions Lior. There will also be a book-signing session and a second-hand book sale.
Le livre en fête (en présentiel) – programme.yiddish.paris
Until 1 December 2024 at the mahJ
The museum is hosting an installation by Raphaël Denis on the spoliation of works of art during the Occupation. The artist brings together, in chronological order according to when they were photographed, all the photographed works belonging to the great gallery owner Paul Rosenberg. These volumes were presented in 2019 at the Centre Pompidou, during the exhibition ‘Paul Rosenberg, art dealer looted under the Occupation’.
From 11 to 12 June 2024 at JEM Copernic
The theme chosen for this night of Shavuot is ‘Am Israel Haï’, marking the famous Jewish resilience, the will to make life triumph over mortifying wills. Speeches by Rabbis Jonas Jacquelin and Philippe Haddad and cheesecake tastings will enliven this sweet, long night.
Nuit d’études Chavouot 5784 : Copernic – Judaïsme En Mouvement (judaismeenmouvement.org)
From 11 to 12 June 2024 at JEM Beaugrenelle
On 11 June at 7.30pm, the public will be welcomed until the early hours of the morning of 12 June, concluding the many discussions with a service and breakfast. The programme will include a concert by the Shira Ve Sim’ha choir, talks by Rabbis Delphine Horvilleur and Yann Boissière and a presentation by Judith Cohen Solal and Jonathan Hayoun of their book on Jewish humour.
Nuit d’études Chavouot 5784 : Beaugrenelle – Judaïsme En Mouvement (judaismeenmouvement.org)
16 and 23 May 2024
The Cercle is offering two meetings this month. The first takes place on 16 May with author Jean-Charles Szurek on the theme of ‘Jewish Resistance fighters who acted for the Soviet Union’. The second takes place on 23 May with author Léa Veinstein on the subject of ‘Kafka, one hundred years and still relevant.’
Agenda | Cercle Bernard Lazare | Paris
From 1 to 29 June at the Centre Medem and in the neighbourhood
The Centre Medem is organising a number of events around this theme throughout the month. These include a musical reading of ‘Terra prumessa: Corsican Jews’ (1 June), a meeting of choirs at the Mairie de Paris Centre (23 June) and a screening-debate on ‘The musicians’ exile’ (29 June).
Agenda mai – juin 2024 – Centre Medem (centre-medem.org)
12 June 2024 at the Departmental Museum of Resistance and Deportation
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Liberation, a study day is proposed to cover certain themes such as the Resistance, the maquis and the Liberation of the region of Toulouse. Jacques Cantier, Fabrice Grenard, Jean-Marie Guillon, Elerika Leroy, Jean Micoud and Valérie Pietr will be taking part.
http://musee-resistance.haute-garonne.fr/fr/index.html
19 June and 2 July 2024
A number of lectures are being held at the Institute this spring. These include ‘Arnold Schoenberg, the Moses of music’, presented on 19 June by historian and musician Philippe Olivier. And on 2 July, a meeting between academics Julien Darmon and Jean Mouttapa.
Until 5 January 2025
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings, this exhibition looks back at the personal journeys of the brave American soldiers who liberated France. It looks back at their American childhood, with the rise of their country in the first half of the century, the enthusiasm of the Roaring Twenties, but also the Great Depression and racial segregation. The exhibition benefits from numerous partnerships with American institutions, including the Smithsonian, the FDR Presidential Library, the Steinbeck Center, the Academy Awards, Paramount Studios and Warner Studios…
26 May 2024 at the Drancy Shoah Memorial
This tribute to the Resistance fighter who died a year ago at the age of 100 in Drancy, will use video extracts, photos and discussions to find out more about the life of this working-class woman who spent most of her life in Drancy. Odette Nilès joined the Resistance at the tender age of 15! Interned in several camps, she managed to escape and join the maquis to continue the fight against the occupying forces. Her granddaughter Carine Picard will be present at this tribute.
18 May 2024 at the Musée Départemental Albert-Kahn
For the 2024 event, the museum is giving visitors the chance to enjoy its astonishing venue, crossing its gardens through the continents it honours and the eras it recalls. The event is the first highlight of the temporary exhibition ‘Living Nature, Images and Imaginations of the Albert Kahn Gardens’. There will also be a family workshop on the principle of transparency in autochromes, and a reading by author Marcelline Delbecq on the traces of events in the places that host them.
Nuit des musées 2024 – Musée Albert Kahn (hauts-de-seine.fr)
6 June 2024
This play by Robert Antelme, adapted and performed by Anne Coutureau and directed by Patrice Le Cadre, shares the author’s account of his captivity in Germany in 1945. A reflection on the Nazi will to exterminate, the struggle of the deportees and human resilience, hoping for a better future, perhaps not for themselves, but at least for their descendants, within the great human family.
Numerous dates until 25 August 2024
Lyon was home to some great Resistance networks, but also to some dark representatives of the collaboration movement. This guided tour, organised by CHRD, reveals the places where secret meetings took place and where Resistance actions were prepared, particularly those that are little known to the general public. Places, buildings, steles, plaques and street names are all part of this tour.
Lieux secrets de la Résistance | CHRD | Musée d’Histoire à Lyon
25 and 26 May 2024 at Struthof
This guided tour allows participants to discover the necropolis and its history. It takes place in the company of an interpreter-guide. The guide looks at the individual journeys of the French deportees buried there and their suffering. Individuals whose history, individuality and memory were destroyed by Nazi barbarism.
Visite guidée de la nécropole nationale au Struthof – Mémorial Struthof
2 – 18 of May 2024 in Paris
This unique festival brings cultures together. Better still, it succeeds in the challenge of allowing religious spiritualities and musical instruments and styles from the four corners of the globe to share stages and enthusiasm! These magnificent encounters kick off on 2 May at La Bellevilloise with the great Israeli singer of Iranian origin, LIRAZ. The concert will open with opera singer Ariana VAFADARI, and close with a DJ set by SHAROUH. Find out all the details about this and other concerts at :
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.
mnr.lu/manifestation/visite-guidee-du-parcours-de-la-memoire-1430-at-musee
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”.