From 15 to 17 March 2024
Created in Egland, Limmud has been a major cultural event in France for the last fifteen years. It enables artists, intellectuals and other enthusiasts from a wide range of backgrounds in Jewish culture to present workshops and lectures to the participants. This year, Denmark is in the spotlight at the weekend organized near Paris, marking the 80th anniversary of the rescue of the Jews by the courageous Danish people. Danish representatives and experts on the subject will be in attendance.
The Museum of Turkish Jews has put on this exhibition, thanks to the work of Metin Delevi, which tells the story of the country’s Jews during the war. It is on display in the Grand Edirne synagogue.
During 2024, a number of objects from the Jewish Museum London will be on display at the synagogue to celebrate English Jewish heritage. These include documents, photographs and ritual objects.
Museum on the Move: Bradford – The Jewish Museum London
Until 30 June 2024 at the Jewish Museum Vienna
Four years ago, we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Austrian Constitution. The role played by the Jewish jurist Hans Kelsen in writing this constitution is not insignificant. His father, a candlestick maker, installed the candlesticks in the Vienna synagogue. A professor at the University of Vienna, Hans Kelsen helped to draft the constitution. Despite this, he was forced to leave the city in 1930 in the face of an upsurge in anti-Semitic acts.
Exhibition Detail | Jüdisches Museum Wien (jmw.at)
30 January 2024 at the CIG
As part of its regular literary events, the Communauté Israélite de Genève is presenting this book set in 1942. It is the story of an 8-year-old child whose life is turned upside down when his parents, artists who emigrated from Eastern Europe, are arrested and murdered. A moving story dealing with the themes of transmission and filiation.
From 24 to 31 January 2024
Over the course of a week, a host of events will celebrate the tenth edition of this festival, which this year focuses on Tehilim. These include a guided tour on 24 January to find out more about Jewish life in Basel in days gone by. There will also be a lecture by musicologist Edwin Seroussi at Basel University on 29 January. And, of course, concerts.
Tehillim – Psalmen – Juedisches Museum Schweiz (juedisches-museum.ch)
At the Jewish Museum Stockholm
How far does the unknown lead? What are its limits and its capacity to cross them? In any case, Bea Szenfeld’s exhibition goes beyond walls to explore the heights of the former synagogue and touch its clouds. Clouds are a religious symbol that features prominently in religious texts, and the exhibition looks at their current symbolism at a time when they are under threat from pollution.
The Cloud of Unknowing | Judiska museet
17 February 2024 in Esch-sur-Alzette
The guided tour takes in the places that marked the Second World War, those of the Occupation and the fight for liberation. The tour includes a visit to the museum, the Place de la Synagogue and the town hall.
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January 2024 at the Gaon Museum in Vilna
Each month, the museum highlights certain objects from its collection. This month, they are books found on Jews killed in Kaunas during the Second World War. These are very old books, probably dating from the turn of the 17th century. They were first kept in the museum after the war, before being placed in the central archives, and finally returned to the museum in 1992 at the end of the Soviet era.
Exhibit of the month – Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History (jmuseum.lt)
28 January 2024 at the Cinemas Massimo in Turin
This screening of Marina Piperno and Luigi Faccini’s film is being organised to mark the International Day of Remembrance for Victims of the Holocaust. Based on Marina Piperno’s personal story, the film widens the focus and tackles the question in a general way. That of knowing what to do with these heavy suitcases inherited from history, in particular those of persecution during the war. The film shows images of 9-millimetre reels from Marina’s father’s filming at the time.
– Articoli in primo piano – – Torino Ebraica
On 28 January 2024
The CCLJ and La Maison de la Culture Juive are offering a themed walk to mark the International Day of Remembrance for Victims of the Holocaust. The walk will (re)discover the history of the Jewish refugees who settled in this working-class district of Brussels, close to the Gare du Midi and the legendary Union stadium, at the turn of the 20th century. They were very much present here until the 1960s.
Saint-Gilles à l’heure de la Guerre – CCLJ
10 April at the Dornbirn City Museum
In cooperation with the Jewish Museum Hohenems, this German film by Christoph Hubner from 2017 deals with how grandparents’ past affects lives and how to overcome this. Seven people, grandchildren of Nazis or their victims, testify. With sincerity and without pathos, with the aim of helping new generations deal with this kind of situation.
Nachlass | Jüdisches Museum Hohenems (jm-hohenems.at)
24 and 25 January 2024
On the occasion of this day organised by UK Jewish Film, the film My Father’s Secret will be shown to a variety of audiences, both schoolchildren and the general public, at several screenings. Director Jes Benstock will take part in a discussion following the screening, to talk to the audience about the work and the issues involved. He has worked on numerous films in the UK and abroad.
Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 – UK Jewish Film
10 March 2024 at the Jewish Museum Synagogue Manchester
Following the success of its previous concerts in 2022 for Synagogue Nights, the Noga Ritter Trio is returning to Manchester for the release of its new album. The album features songs in English and Hebrew, dealing with contemporary social issues as well as more intimate subjects.
Manchester Jewish Museum — Noga Ritter Trio (rescheduled)
From 5 to 7 April 2024 in Youlgrave, Derbyshire
This new annual festival brings together klezmer enthusiasts and professionals to share their enthusiasm for this music, its generosity and its sharing. The festival takes place in the beautiful village of Youlgrave, a place that combines inspiration from nature with a reappropriation of time.
KlezNorth | A festival of Klezmer music, dance and song
11 February 2024 at SOAS University of London
This second event organised by the Jewish Music Institute brings together specialists in this music from all over the world, as well as artists who will share their different approaches and studies throughout the day. The event will close with a concert by DJ Sharouh.
Yallah 2024 – Judeo-Arabic Music Conference – Jewish Music Institute (jmi.org.uk)
From 9 February to 26 May 2024 at the Galerie Eric F. Ross
This exhibition highlights the work of German-Jewish author Curt Bloch, written between August 1943 and April 1945 while in hiding in the Netherlands. His poems, written in Dutch and German, were collected together in a booklet, dealing with the war and the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime, but also with the attitude of the collaborators and the daily danger faced by the Jews, followed by the advance of the Allied troops leading to victory. In this work, he did not shy away from ridiculing the Nazi leaders. His poems are read and performed on stage by actors Marina Frenk, Richard Gonlag and Mathias Schäfer.
“My verses are like dynamite” | Jewish Museum Berlin (jmberlin.de)
From 25 January to 30 June 2024 at the former Kriegshaber synagogue
This exhibition, organised in partnership with Dagesh and the Augsburg Jewish Museum, presents the work of nine international Jewish artists. This event focuses on the theme of new perspectives in their work of a changing world. They invite visitors to ask themselves questions about their place in this societal upheaval and the link between the past and the future. The works on display are as varied in form (photo, video, sound, etc.) as they are in the artists’ individual perspectives.
TRANSITIONS. Jewish Perspectives on the Present – Jüdisches Museum Augsburg Schwaben (jmaugsburg.de)
Until 31 March 2024 at the Musée Zadkine
The museum is devoting a monographic exhibition to the great sculptor. Born in Ukraine and raised in Israel, she was one of a generation of refugee artists who settled in Paris in her youth, finding freedom and inspiration there. Fleeing during the war, she continued her work in Israel. This exhibition brings together the work of Chana Orloff and that of Ossip Zadkine.
3 February 2024 at the Maison de la culture yiddish
This reading-performance is based on a work by Debora Vogel, translated by Batia Baum and published in a bilingual edition in 2023. It is presented as part of the “Paris-Berlin, a link for the Yiddish diaspora” season. The poet Debora Vogel (1900-1942) was an important representative of Yiddish and Polish modernism, murdered in the Lwow ghetto. The readings will be given by Karolina Szymaniak and Talila. Music by Nicolas Dupin and Bastien Hartmann.
From 27 January to 13 May 2024 at the Musée National Marc Chagall
The museum’s collections were enriched in 2023, notably with the arrival of four rare works by the artist: The Mexican Rider in Red and his Violet Horse (1943), Ka Descent from the Cross on a Blue Background (1950), The Fiddler (1957) and The Chariot of Elijah (1970). There are currently almost 1,000 pieces preserved.
22 January 2024 at the Librairie Prado Paradis
This event will provide an opportunity to discover Murielle Szac’s novel “Tosca”, a book about the Resistance and the fight against anti-Semitism in 1944. Murielle Szac is an author, publisher and collection director, and is deeply committed to the mission of transmission.
10 March 2024 at the JEM Copernic Synagogue
This musical evening, presented by Pierre Réach, will feature Harlap’s Seven Preludes for piano. There will also be three Beethoven sonatas, including “Tempest” and “l’Appassionata”. It’s an evening that showcases musical variety in all its creations and expressions.
Grand Récital de piano annuel de Copernic – Judaïsme En Mouvement (judaismeenmouvement.org)
11 February 2024 at the Medem Centre
The Song of songs has inspired so many readings and interpretations throughout the ages. This talk by François Ardeven, Chairman of the Medem Centre’s Culture Committee, will attempt to answer the secrets and questions surrounding the text, which is based on Henri Meschonic’s translation of the Five Scrolls, published by Gallimard. But also on the Hebrew text and the midrash.
1 February 2024 at Hebraïca
In partnership with the Institut Universitaire d’Etudes Juives de Toulouse, cultural events are organised on a regular basis. These include a lecture by Isy Morgensztern on Rhenish Hasidism, the Languedoc and Spanish Cabala, mysticism and many other themes.
À la une | hebraica (hebraica-toulouse.com)
4 February 2024 at the Musée Albert Kahn
The theme of the 28th edition of this event is “sport and science”. There will be family workshops where children can discover film techniques by creating a flipbook using extracts from films about sport. There will also be a screening of the film “1,2,3 shoot! Sport in the Archives of the Planet”.
La Science se livre 2024 – Musée Albert Kahn (hauts-de-seine.fr)
28 January 2024 at the Espace des Cultures Juives in Grenoble
Author Judith Elmaleh will be on hand to talk about her novel “Une Reine”. The book is based on the story of her grandmother in Casablanca. The meeting will be accompanied by a brunch and pavlovas from the cookery workshop.
ECJ CCJ – Espace des Cultures Juives de Grenoble | Grenoble | Facebook
At the CHRD
This exhibition devoted to the great hero of the Resistance allows us to (re)discover the man through the eyes of those who knew him or studied him. These include friends and family, fellow Resistance members and even opponents. Numerous documents are used, ranging from his childhood, his professional career before the war and his involvement in the Resistance. Videos are also shown, with testimonies from a 1958 documentary, along with valuable interviews.
Jean Moulin, les voies de la liberté | CHRD | Musée d’histoire | Lyon dans la guerre, 1939-1945
From 22 January to 1 February 2024 in Grenoble and Lyon
The lack of understanding between French and Israeli Jews is legendary and has even inspired cult sketches in both countries. Marco Carmel’s excellent comedy “Paris Boutique” dramatises these differences through the story of a French tourist who arrives in Jerusalem, awkwardly guided by an Israeli woman between the Old City and the renewal of Mahane Yehouda, and above all between her personal problems and how to solve them. The Dia(s)porama Festival is also offering other films in Lyon and Grenoble: ‘Reckonings’, ‘The Art of silence’ and ‘El Amor en Su Lugar’.
Diasporama – Séances Archive – Diasporama
From 25 to 30 January in Montpellier and Toulouse
How can we avoid being overwhelmed by our past and deal with our silences? How can we continue to believe in humanity and its potential despite our own terrible experiences? What reparative measures need to be taken? These are some of the questions addressed by the films presented in Toulouse and Montpellier as part of the 4th edition of the Dia(s)porama Festival: “IMordecai”, “The Art of Silence” and “My Neighbor Adolf”.