23 November 2023 at the CCLJ
This musical journey featuring Russian actor, director and writer Veniamin Smekhov and pianist and author of Yiddish poems Evgeny Kissin pays tribute to the Soviet Yiddish poets who fell victim to Stalinism. They were among the 13 Yiddish poets and writers murdered on the night of 12 to 13 August 1952, all members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. There will be a discussion with the artists after the show.
La Flamme Inextinguible – Poésie yiddish et destins des poètes juifs – CCLJ
Until 26 May 2024 at the Jewish Museum of Vienna
While war rages in the Middle East and Europe, the museum focuses on the definition of peace as the success of a civilisation. Jewish perspectives on notions of peace, but also the struggles waged in the name of these values, such as the fight for equal rights during the march for Civil Rights in America and feminism. The museum stresses the importance of this exhibition in the wake of the Hamas terrorist movement’s attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 and the omnipresence of violence.
Exhibition Detail | Jüdisches Museum Wien (jmw.at)
3 December 2023 at the Manchester Jewish Museum
This documentary presents a figure as little known as he was influential: Fred Stein. The young man was forced to flee Germany when the Nazis came to power. He discovered photography in Paris, a city that welcomed many refugee artists and inspired aspiring artists. His memorable photographs include portraits of Hannah Arendt and Albert Einstein. His son, Peter Stein, made this rich and influential body of work available to the general public.
Manchester Jewish Museum — Out Of Exile: The Photography of Fred Stein
Until 5 January 2024 at the Jewish Museum London
This original concept allows different voices to be heard on a wide range of subjects. Community leaders, but also people with questions or expressing curiosity about these issues. This approach is inspired by the desire to honour London’s Jewish history and memory, but also to find answers to the challenges of tomorrow.
Pitch Up: Community Voices @ JW3 – The Jewish Museum London
10 December 2023 at the Vortex Jazz Club of London
The JMI Youth Big Band draws its inspiration from a wide range of musical styles, including Jewish music and the jazz of legendary American bands. The ensemble is made up of many artists, leaving plenty of room for initiation and improvisation. Further proof, if proof were needed, of this cultural capacity to give the best of oneself in the context of encounters and discoveries, with the unique desire to share a magical moment with the audience.
JMI Youth Big Band – Live at Vortex – Jewish Music Institute
Until 17 March 2024 at the Jewish Museum in Munich
In 1939, a decree was issued requiring Munich’s Jews to hand over their jewellery and other precious metals, including Sabbath candlesticks, to the local authorities. These discriminatory measures, which began when the Nazis came to power in 1933, became increasingly violent and led to the Shoah. This exhibition gives visitors an insight into how this tragedy was experienced by a Jewish woman from the same town who was simply trying to live her life.
Until 14 January 2024 at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt
With the help of numerous films, the exhibition provides a better understanding of the perception and representation of Jews in 20th century cinema. A look at Jewish directors on the fringes, actors such as Lilli Palmer and Peter Lorre, and film producers. This complex research was carried out by Lea Wohl von Haselberg and Johannes Praetorius-Rhein. Among the works on show are Arche Nora (1948) and Morituri (1948), by directors who survived the Shoah and returned to Germany in the aftermath of the war.
Exhibition: Out of and in focus – Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt (juedischesmuseum.de)
Until 1 December 2023 at the Augsburg Jewish Museum
This participatory approach enables schoolchildren in Augsburg to understand the meaning of the Jewish New Year and to use it as inspiration to redecorate the museum. From tradition to the different customs in the countries where Jews live, this wonderful encounter has been welcomed by all. The schoolchildren also designed greetings cards and honey-based dishes, which were then displayed in the museum’s collection.
Rosh ha-Shana – A new year in autumn? – Jüdisches Museum Augsburg Schwaben (jmaugsburg.de)
At the Museum of Turkish Jews
This exhibition is a collective work organised by the Museum of Turkish Jews, the Spanish association Red de Juderias, the Spanish Embassy and the Cervantes Institute in Istanbul, with the aim of highlighting Sephardic cuisine and history. Inspired by the book Sabores de Sephardi by author Javier Zafra, the exhibition features 27 creations. It’s a journey through flavours, but also through time, to rediscover the dishes that made the great tables of each era.
The Quincentenial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews – Homepage (muze500.com)
16 October 2023 at the GIL
This lecture, organised in collaboration with the ORT Asnières Institute’s Alumnis, will enable participants to relive the life of the numerous communities at the time of the Temple of Jerusalem, at the crossroads of civilisations and religions. It will also look back at the fabulous archaeological discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
GIL – Conférence de Jacques LevyCommunauté Juive Libérale de Genève
3 October 2023 at 12.15pm at the Great Synagogue Beth Yaacov
Many writers regularly take part in these meetings organised by the Community. They talk about their latest literary works relating to Jewish culture, and take part in discussions with the public and the journalists who host these events. Other events are scheduled for 12 December 2023, 13 February 2024 and 9 April 2024.
Until 18 October 2023
As in all the cities taking part in these Days, the theme of Memory chosen this year will enable visitors to rediscover Slovenia’s Jewish cultural heritage. Not only how long it has existed, but also how the traces that have disappeared or remain are preserved and shared today.
Sinagoga Maribor – Evropski dnevi judovske kulture 2023: Spomin
14 September 2023 at the Maisel synagogue
This famous quartet from the Czech music scene is made up of Ondrej Has, Marek Blaha, Matej Kroupa and Stepan Drtina. That evening, they presented compositions from the musical avant-garde of the inter-war and post-war years. Among the works performed are those by Gideon Klein, Pavel Haas and Antonin Dvorak.
The Pavel Bořkovec Quartet | Židovské muzeum v Praze (jewishmuseum.cz)
Until 16 December 2024
This exhibition allows visitors to experience the feelings of a young man growing up in the Opatow shtetl through the works he created in his adult life. We rediscover the Jewish life of yesteryear, destroyed during the Shoah. This daily life with its poor neighbourhoods made up of wooden houses where Opatow’s Jews lived. The exhibition was produced with the help of local residents. The exhibition also showcases the projects being developed in connection with the renewal of Jewish life in the region.
Until 31 December 2023
This highly original exhibition showcases the work of New York artist Steve Marcus, using skateboards as his canvas. The themes of tradition, spirituality and Krakow’s Jewish history are explored in this astonishing medium. A style inspired by contemporary cartoons and comics.
Until the end of September 2023
The exhibition accompanies the March of Remembrance. It presents the organisation of the resistance within the ghetto, which, after many months of preparation, led the courageous and historic revolt. This was achieved in a number of different areas: military, educational, community and the establishment of links in secrecy beyond the ghetto in order to find support. All the difficulties they had to overcome in order to achieve this were demonstrated.
Until 15 October 2023 at the Rembrandt Museum
This exhibition explores the many facets of love. Family love first, but also and above all the artist’s first great love, Saskia Uylenburgh, immortalised in his work. He married her in 1634 and they had a son. She died tragically in 1642. Rembrandt decided to paint Saskia on her best days, but also when she was ill, proving the extent of his love, impervious to the assaults of time and illness.
Rembrandt & Love – Rembrandthuis
28 October 2023 in Esch
Various places of remembrance will be visited in Esch during this tour, to retrace the steps of the history of the Shoah, recounting the period of occupation, the fate of the victims and the actions of the Resistance, as well as the Liberation of the town. Among the sites visited: the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights, the Place de la Synagogue and the Town Hall.
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10th September 2023
To celebrate these Days, the city’s various Jewish institutions will be welcoming visitors. There will be four guided tours of the synagogue every hour from 10am. At 9am, there will be a guided tour of the Jewish cemetery in Trieste. The exhibition “The Tenth Measure, the beauty of Dvora Barzilai’s art” will be inaugurated on this day and will be open to the public at the Carlo and Vera Wagner Museum (it will run until 10 November 2023).
EDJC 2023 in Trieste – Museo Ebraico di Trieste (museoebraicotrieste.it)
Until 15 October 2023 at Museum MAXXI
The racial laws implemented in Italy in 1938 turned Jewish life upside down. Nine stories are presented at this event. This event looks at the stories of nine Jewish architects of the period (Daniele Calabi, Angelo Di Castro, Romeo Di Castro, Enrico De Angeli, Vito Latis, Gino Levi Montalcini, Alessandro Rimini, Ernesto Nathan Rogers and Nina Livia Viterbo) and the consequences of these laws on their lives. We discover how they were excluded from competitions and missions and prevented from developing their profession.
From 9 to 11 October 2023 at the Gregorian University in Milan
This conference is organised by five international institutions: the Cardinal Bea Centre at the Pontifical University of Rome; the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; the Centre for Jewish-Catholic Studies at Saint Leo University in Florida; the CDEC Foundation in Milan; and the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. This is the first meeting of its kind since Pope Francis decided to open the Vatican archives to the public in March 2020.
13 September 2023 at 7.30pm
This gala, organised in support of the MDA Ireland, will be attended by Alan Shatter, author, lawyer and politician. He will be presenting a series of short stories published over the last two decades. A satirical look at contemporary Irish life and its characters. There will also be a musical interlude with singer Carl Nelkin and pianist Maja Elilott.
THE AWAKENINGAn evening of Poetry & Prose with Alan Shatter – Irish Jewish Museum
Until the end of October 2023
Following the success of this exhibition, the Jewish Museum of Greece has decided to extend it (it was inaugurated on 16 May 2022), to allow other visitors to enjoy it. This is thanks to the support of the Ministry of Culture, the Archaeological Museums and the Art of Remembrance and Commemoration institution.
12th and 13th September 2023
This meeting will bring together researchers from many countries, under the coordination of Arturo Ruiz Taboada, to reflect on and discuss contemporary discoveries linked to the archaeology of the Jewish and Sephardic past. Focusing on the discoveries made in Toledo, the aim is to help promote this very ancient local Jewish cultural heritage. The project brings together the Asociación de Amigos del Museo Sefardí, the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), the Sefarad-Israel Centre in Madrid and the Toledo Consortium.
5 October 2023 at the Danish Jewish Museum
To mark the 80th anniversary of the rescue of the Danish Jews, numerous events are being organised in Denmark and the rest of Europe to celebrate the fabulous courage of the people of this country. The Danish Jewish Museum is planning several events, including the presentation of the book recounting Benjamin Blüdnikow’s escape. The book was written by collecting the testimonies and diaries of refugees. The presentation will be attended by author Bent Blïdnikow, Benjamin’s son, Dan Bandmann, whose mother was also rescued, and museum director Janus Moller Jensen.
From 7 September 2023 to 18 February 2024 at the Jewish Museum of Belgium
Belgian surrealism has been well known since Magritte. Shoshana Walfish follows in this tradition when she revisits the representation of the ‘woman-object’ and objects as female bodies in her work. This Brussels-based Canadian artist also explores the lush aesthetic allusions associated with bodily organs. The Jewish Museum of Belgium invites you to admire her various painted works, proving the vitality of contemporary creations.
Shoshana Walfish. Illusive Bodies – Musée Juif de Belgique (mjb-jmb.org)
15 October at 2pm
On this themed walk, visitors will discover this district near Brussels’ Gare du Midi, which welcomed several waves of Jewish migrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With its three former synagogues, its community and cultural centres, some of which are still standing, and the legendary Union football stadium, a weekly fixture in this working-class neighbourhood since the turn of the 20th century. Organised by the Maison de la Culture Juive and the CCLJ. Booking essential.
20 September 2023 at the Jewish Museum Manchester
Following the broadcasting of a BBC documentary on Jewish life in Scotland, the Manchester Jewish Museum has decided to address this theme at a meeting in its café. A community that has evolved over time since the 1700s, numbering up to 20,000 members in the pre-war years, with around twenty synagogues at the time. Today, the community has just 6,000 members.
Manchester Jewish Museum — Jewish Culture Club: “Being Jewish In Scotland”
From 22 to 27 December 2023 in Birmingham
Probably one of the greatest success stories of contemporary English Judaism, the concept of Limmud has flourished all over the world. So it was in England that it was born, with a few volunteers keen to present and share the different cultural facets of Judaism. The end-of-year festival is the biggest, attracting thousands of people from England and beyond. In this wonderful spirit of curiosity and discovery, building bridges between the different currents of Judaism and with different cultures.
19 October 2023 at the Galerie Brunei
This new edition of the Big Mix is true to its ambition: to showcase contemporary music and London encounters. The evening kicks off with a concert by Senegalese kora player Kadialy Kouyate and klezmer accordionist Josh Middleton, blending West African and East European influences. The evening continues with the quartet of Noga Ritter and her fusion of Israeli jazz and Senegalese drums.