Until 30 August 2023 at the Shoah Memorial
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in May 1943 and the creation of the CDJC (Centre for Contemporary Jewish Documentation) the previous month, the Shoah Memorial is staging an exhibition in the Alley of the Righteous, retracing the history of these two events, each of which marked 1943 in its own way. The event is coordinated by Lucile Lignon and Léonie Maillet.
From 1 July to 27 August 2023 at the Jardins Albert Kahn
As part of the Open Gardens festival organised by the Ile-de-France region as part of the “Mon été, ma région” (My summer, my region) operation, the Hauts-de-Seine department is inviting the artists Rieko Koga and her aerial creations, and Frédérique Petit and her plant-inspired shapes made from raw materials.
https://albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/la-programmation/evenements/les-passageres
1 September 2023 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère
This film, directed by Jonathan Barré in 2016, presents the adventures of Max and Léon, two childhood friends, lazy, partying and clumsy, who try by all means to escape the Second World War. A screening organised in partnership with the Grenoble Cinémathèque.
Until 20 July 2023 at the Struthof camp
The exhibition, which opened on 8 May, comprises 12 panels hung on the gates of the Palais du gouverneur militaire in Strasbourg (on the Place Broglie side). The photographs were taken on the site of the former Natzweiler concentration camp, better known in France as the Struthof camp. They include a general view of the camp, one of its watchtowers, the crematorium and a portrait of Jean Villeret, one of the last French survivors.
Until February 2024 at the Manchester Jewish Museum
The exhibition “Take a Load Off” offers visitors to the museum a taste of the Sabbath. As a day of rest, a time for gathering, praying, singing, eating and talking together. Every Saturday, the museum offers visitors two special sound installations. The work has been created from oral history clips from the museum’s collection, interviews with Mancunian Jews who talk about their meanings, memories and sensations of the Sabbath. Produced by multidisciplinary arts company No Ordinary Experience, the piece was directed by musician and sound designer Ben Osborn, in collaboration with theatre artist Georgina Bednar and actress Rachel-Leah Hosker.
https://www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/exhibition/take-a-load-off/
From 20 October 2023 at the Sigmund Freud Museum
The Sigmund Freud Museum’s new special exhibition is devoted to comics. It presents the variety of methods and aesthetic alternatives used to represent individual and collective experiences of violence. Comic strips are illuminating for psychoanalysis, presenting the unfathomable and the unpronounceable – and they can be useful for opening up new perspectives on these experiences, and thus for treating trauma. The exhibition looks at the Shoah, war, sexualised violence, displacement and migration, and teenage experiences of violence.
https://www.freud-museum.at/en/exhibitions-program/violence-in-comics/articles/violence-in-comics
Until 14 January 2024 at Museum Dorotheergasse
The photographer Maria Austria, born Marie Östreicher in Karlovy Vary in 1915, moved to Vienna in the 1930s to study at the Federal Institute for Graphic Education and Research. After working briefly as a press photographer, she emigrated to Amsterdam in 1937, where she founded the Studio Model en Foto Austria. After the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, she went underground and helped the resistance by taking passport photos for forged passports. In 1945, she founded the photographic agency Particam Pictures with her husband and other colleagues. The exhibition presents her early work in Vienna through to the 1970s.
https://www.jmw.at/en/exhibitions/maria_austria
6 August 2023 at the Jewish Museum in Hohenems
This public guided tour of the permanent exhibition (in German) will enable visitors to discover the various facets of Jewish daily life and history. The tour takes in the Jewish Museum and the former Jewish quarter of Hohenems. Visitors will be able to study the architecture of the period and its evolution as they stroll through the synagogue quarter, the Jewish school, the mikveh and the Jewish hospice, most of which have been renovated in recent years.
29 June 2023 at 12.30pm on the CCLJ site
This exhibition looks back at anti-Semitic clichés. Their history and their sad present, fuelled by conspiracy theorists during geopolitical events or following the Covid-19 pandemic. This exhibition allows visitors to test and deepen their knowledge of the subject, through photos, videos and stories.
Until 27 August 2023 at the Jewish Museum in Belgium
Four women artists, each renowned for her contribution to a particular art form: filmmaker Chantal Akerman, sculptor Marianne Berenhaut, painter Sarah Kaliski and photographer Julia Pirotte. These Brussels Jewish women from different generations were affected by the Shoah, either directly or through their relatives. This choral exhibition follows the gaze of these four figures, whose lives span an entire century of history, interweaving events, places, destruction, emancipation, political transformations and intimate experiments.
12 September 2023 at the Museo Sefardi
In September, the Sephardic Museum, in collaboration with a number of institutions, will be holding an international conference on medieval European Jewish archaeology. The excavations carried out at the museum and the latest research on the Jewish quarter of Toledo will be highlighted.
https://www.culturaydeporte.gob.es/msefardi/en/actividades/agenda/2023/mayo/congreso.html
June 22, 2023 at the Museo Ebraico Carlo & Vera Wagner
Since 15 June, numerous events have been organised to celebrate Jewish culture in general and Jewish music in particular. At the 16th edition of this Festival, a series of four concerts will be given from the terrace of 3 via del Monte: Amoroso-Palumbo Duo, GOM-Young Metropolitan Orschestra, pianists from the Pierpaolo Levi School and finally, on 22 June, Raiz & Radicanto. A show combining psalms, Sephardic songs, Neapolitan music, fado, North African, Middle Eastern and Asian influences.
https://www.museoebraicotrieste.it/en/2023/06/12/erev-laila-2023-2/
Until 10 October 2023 at the Museo Ebraico di Roma
As part of the celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of the State of Israel, the museum is presenting the strong link between Roman art of the period and the creation of the State. The Tel Aviv Museum of Fine Arts has lent some twenty works by painters and sculptors from this period, which culminated in the “Art Pro-New State of Israel” exhibition in June 1948 at the Galleria d’Arte Antica Palazzo Torlonia.
These are organised in the house that celebrates the memory of the Japanese diplomat who saved more than 6,000 Jews during the Holocaust by granting them visas. These tours also take place remotely in a virtual experience to share the history and values of Chiune Sugihara.
https://www.sugiharahouse.com/#/en/VIRTUAL-TOURS-event
Until 3 September 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Galicia
This exhibition won the Chris Schwarz Art Memory Competition, named after the founder and first director of the Jewish Museum of Galicia. Xawery Deskur’s exhibition was inspired by the amazing story of Sat-Okh, a Polish Indian.
Until 16 December 2023 at the Polin Museum
The works of Mayer Kirshenblatt provide a better understanding of the life of a child in the shtetl on the eve of the Second World War. The exhibition will explore the transmission of Jewish history, particularly in towns where their presence is only written in the past tense. Pieces of wood from the old houses of the Opatow shtetl, which are in the process of being demolished, will be presented to the public as part of a debate on memory.
The exhibition is produced with the support of Tad Taube and Taube Philanthropies, The CBRAT Foundation in loving memory of Joseph and Miriam Ratner.
https://polin.pl/en/postjewish-shtetl-opatow-through-eyes-mayer-kirshenblatt
19 August 2023 at the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights
This tour will enable you to discover the various places of remembrance in the town, marking both the period of occupation and the great hours of liberation. The tour will also look back at the architectural development of Esch in the 20th century. The tour will also take in the architectural development of Esch in the 20th century, including the Place de la Synagogue, the Town Hall and the museum.
https://mnr.lu/manifestation/visite-guidee-du-parcours-de-la-memoire-14h30-at-musee-fr-2
From 25 to 28 June 2023 in Rome’s ancient Jewish quarter
The 16th edition of Ebraica, the international festival of culture promoted by the Jewish community of Rome, gets underway and will bring the Jewish quarter of Rome to life with theatrical performances, book presentations, concerts and Italian and international guests. All events are open to the public and free of charge.
https://www.facebook.com/ebraicafestival/?locale=it_IT
Until 28 April 2024 at the Jewish Museum in Stockholm
This exhibition presents the different hats and other garments used by men in Judaism to cover their heads during religious ceremonies. It includes a stunning work by the artist Ann Hult showing a flower bed formed by kippoth. The diversity of styles, fabrics, colours and patterns and their significance will give you a better understanding of the history of European Jewry in general and Swedish Jewry in particular.
https://judiskamuseet.se/jewish-headgear/?lang=en
From 31 August to 3 September 2023
As part of the European Days of Jewish Culture, the CIG, in partnership with the GIL, the Henry-Dunant Lodge of B’nai B’rith and the Geneva Jewish Heritage Association, is organising two days. On Thursday 31 August, the book “Albert, Esther, Liebmann, Ruth et les autres. Présences juives en Suisse romande”, edited by Francine Brunschwig, Laurence Leitenberg, Marc Perrenoud and Jacques Ehrenfreund. On Sunday 3 September, from 10am to 2pm, a guided tour will allow you to (re)discover places linked to Geneva’s Jewish cultural heritage. With historian Jean Plançon and the Hamacom troupe from the Communauté Israélite de Genève.
https://comisra.ch/evenements/save-the-date-journee-europeenne-de-la-culture-juive-1/?date=20230831
18 June 2023 at 2pm
This walk, in the company of the guide Ben David, will allow you to rediscover Jewish life in this popular district of northern Brussels. The Jewish population of this district grew between the two world wars, as did the neighbouring communes of Saint-Gilles and Anderlecht. This was due to migration from Eastern Europe, and then in the 1960s with the arrival of Sephardim. All this history will be presented during the walk. The walk will start at a place that will be communicated after registration.
8 May, from 7 to 10 pm at the GIL
The GIL welcomes the Geneva literary prodigy for a lecture on The Alaska Sanders Affair. Registration is required, as space is limited for such an event.
https://www.gil.ch/evenement/lundi-du-gil-conference-de-joel-dicker
4 June 2023, 10:30 – 12:00
This tour will take place in the company of Eric Ackermann, Second Minister officiating. It will allow you to rediscover the fundamentals of Jewish history and liturgy, as well as the Jewish community of Geneva, in this monument which has been classified as a historical heritage of Geneva since 1989.https://comisra.ch/evenements/visite-guidee-bethyaacov-fev23-2-2-2/
June 3rd 2023 at the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights
This visit allows you to rediscover the architectural heritage of Esch, as well as its history. More specifically, the city centre at the beginning of the 20th century and during the Shoah. The themes of the Nazi occupation, the resistance and the fate of the Jews are addressed. The tour takes you to the museum, the Synagogue Square and, among others, the town hall.
https://mnr.lu/manifestation/visite-guidee-du-parcours-de-la-memoire-1430-at-musee
Until October 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Greece
This exhibition is actually a continuation of an exhibition that opened in 2022. The exhibition has been approved by the Ministry to be extended, allowing visitors to better understand the long and important Jewish history of Greece through the ancient monuments that evoke it.
https://www.jewishmuseum.gr/en/28456
25 April 2023 at the Museo Sefardi
These meetings, which take place on the last Tuesday of each month in the Museum’s library, provide an opportunity to get together around a literary work and share impressions. This month it will be a presentation of the book Comets in the Sky by Khaled Hosseini.
https://www.culturaydeporte.gob.es/msefardi/actividades/agenda.html
18 June 2023 at 2pm
This walk, in the company of the guide Ben David, will allow you to rediscover Jewish life in this popular district of northern Brussels. The Jewish population of this district grew between the two world wars, as did the neighbouring communes of Saint-Gilles and Anderlecht. This was due to migration from Eastern Europe, and then in the 1960s with the arrival of Sephardim. All this history will be presented during the walk. The walk will start at a place that will be communicated after registration.
June 22, 2023, at 7pm at the Library of Psychoanalyis in the Sigmund Freud Museum
Tricky Women/Tricky Realities and the Sigmund Freud Museum invite to two film evenings dedicated to animation and psychoanalysis. In its mode of creation, the art of animation has the potential to visualise unconscious processes and thus create access to both individual and collective experiences. The Sigmund Freud Museum’s theme for 2023, “Gewalt/Violence”, deals with the forms of violence that surround us and that also emanate from ourselves.
https://www.freud-museum.at/en/exhibitions-program
20-25 August 2023 at SOAS, Russell Square Campus, London
The festival is an introduction to, or confirmation of, the public’s enthusiasm for Yiddish music, led by singer/teacher Shura Lipovsky, assisted by Rachel Weston and Joseph Finlay. The five-day event will include theory and repertoire studies, master classes and training for Yiddish choristers. Artists and amateurs of all levels, from England, but also from the rest of Europe and the United States, gather at the Yiddish festival.
May 5 to August 27, 2023 at the Libeskind Building, Eric F. Ross Gallery, Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
Winner of the Dagesh Jewish Art Award for her video installation, Maya Schweizer deals with questions of history and memory and their relationship to Jewish art. With the fears and hopes that impermanence can represent regarding the museum itself as a place and in a wider societal process. The artist, who was born in Paris and studied in Germany, also explores issues of transhumanism and posthumanism.