Until 3 October 2023 at the Jewish Museum Augsburg
A very original initiative where the museum calls upon the schoolchildren of the city of Augsburg to imagine decorations for Pesach, the festival of liberation of the Jewish people. Its history and symbolism are told to the schoolchildren, who then use it as inspiration to share their artistic creations.
https://jmaugsburg.de/en/exhibitions/pessach-mazzen-und-mehr/
Until September 21, 2023 at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt
This exhibition devoted to the Frankfurt artist Samson Schames (1898-1967) highlights the work of this great painter of the inter-war years and his strong link to his native city. He was forced to flee to London in 1939, where he continued to create, marked by the devastation of the war. Some of his works from this period are presented in the exhibition. An exhibition organised by Annika Friedman in cooperation with the Leo Baeck Institute in New York.
https://www.juedischesmuseum.de/en/visit/detail/samson-schames-exhibition/
Until 17 september 2023 at the MEIS
This exhibition, organised by Andrea Morpurgo and Amedeo Spagnoletto, presents the architectural aspects of these places and their role in the Jewish community, as well as the associated rites. A Jewish identity anchored in Italy for over 2000 years. We follow the history of families over many generations and see rare objects, such as the Aron of the Vercelli community. Old state archive documents can also be consulted. https://meis.museum/en/
September 27, 2023 at Blixen, Den Sorte Diamant, Søren Kirkegaard plads 1, KBH
This lecture by Simon Kratholm Andkjærgaard is produced in partnership with the Danish Jewish Museum and the Society for Danish Jewish History. It looks back at the night of the 1st and 2nd of October when the Germans attacked the Danish Jews and the courage of the people to save them afterwards. The events of the rescue of the 7000 Jews are developed and central and discreet characters are introduced.
https://www.jewmus.dk/en/aktuelt/nyhedsvisning/oktober-1943-de-danske-joeders-flugt-og-fangenskab-1
8 July 2023
The Jewish Quarter in Hohenems, which is largely a listed building, will be the subject of a tour starting at the Jewish Museum. The surrounding streets and their general history will be presented. The tour will end with an exchange of views with the organisers over a bagel. On this day, admission to the museum and the exhibitions on display is free, including the exhibition on 400 years of Jewish life in Hohenems.
Sunday, 23 April 2023, 7pm at the Manchester Jewish Museum’s former synagogue
This play explores the lives of three girls of Romanian Jewish parents in 20th century Manchester. Their personal experiences with love, war and loneliness. A play inspired by the author’s own family experience. A touching work that raises questions about education and identity.
https://www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/event/a-manchester-girlhood/
Until 1 October 2023 at the Centre Emanuel Ringelblum
The exhibition will show how the Jewish uprising was perceived by post-war artists. A wide variety of objects in a wide variety of styles, such as Soviet realist paintings, illustrations from the Jewish press, photos and drawings… Objects largely from the Jewish Historical Institute. Numerous events will accompany the exhibition: meetings, guided tours and screenings.
19 April 2023 at the Paris City Hall
The commemoration of this act of inestimable courage will take place in the Grands Salons of the Hotel de Ville. How a handful of surviving men and women in terrible conditions took up arms against the powerful Nazi army. The event is organised in partnership with the Medem Centre. Due to limited space, registration on their website is required.
https://www.centre-medem.org/recevoir-le-programme
From 23 April 2023 to 3 September 2023
A city torn between the actions of monsters and heroes during the war, many places in Lyon allow you to (re)discover this history, in particular some little-known courageous acts of the Resistance. The walk will allow you to visit the places, buildings, steles, plaques and street names that illustrate the key events of the 1939-1945 period.
https://www.chrd.lyon.fr/musee/parcours-urbain/lieux-secrets-de-la-resistance
May 22, 2023 at the Jérôme Cahen Community Centre in Neuilly-sur-Seine
Activities will take place for those curious and passionate about Ashkenazi culture and the Yiddish language, along with culinary delights, a Glouss taï with Leiker. These activities include a screening of Yiddish films (with French subtitles), book presentations, and culinary and calligraphy workshops.
Until 7 January 2024 at the Atelier des Lumières
The immersive adventure continues at the Atelier with the reception and the musical walk on the walls of Marc Chagall’s work. Emphasizing the way in which the two cities, Paris and New York, will welcome and inspire him. His fantastic bestiary, his characters from the circus, fables or opera, but also biblical episodes and references to Russian culture will be displayed on the walls.
https://atelier-lumieres.tickeasy.com/fr-FR/produits
16 April 2023 at the Jewish Cultural Association of Nancy
A lighting of candles in memory of the victims of the Shoah and songs from the Kaddish, El Maleh Rahamim and the Song of the Partisans will accompany the discussion between Audrey Kichelewski, Didier Francfort and Anna Zielinska (from the Polin Museum in Warsaw) on the theme “Why and how to make the history of Jewish resistance in Poland in 2023”.
24 June 2023
With the gradual disappearance of the last survivors of the Shoah, these testimonies are all the more precious. Even more so in this period of rising populism. Claude Bloch, now 94 years old, is the last survivor of Auschwitz in Lyon. Arrested in June 1944, he was interned in Montluc before being deported. He still speaks regularly in schools.
May 3, 2023 at the Rachi Institute in Troyes
This conference by Gérald Tenenbaum is articulated in several parts and aims to share reflections on literary work and on the current evolution of novels, to evoke the singular journey of the speaker and to present his novel Par la racine. The action of the latter takes place in part at the Rachi Institute in Troyes.
Until 27 May 2023 at the Musée Départemental de la Résistance et de la Déportation
The exhibition brings together the fruits of Michael Kenna’s twelve years of work photographing Nazi camps during his travels in Europe. In partnership with the Musée de la Résistance Nationale, the MDR&D presents 64 prints from this series. Places of extermination and memories, landscapes and words of deportees meet in these works, questioning our relationship to art as a vector of memorial transmission.
http://musee-resistance.haute-garonne.fr/fr/evenements-1/exposition-temporaire.html
27th April 2023
This meeting is part of the Hebraica Thursdays series and its theme is “The great painters: Modigliani, Chagall, Soutine, Utrillo and the School of Paris”.
https://www.hebraica-toulouse.com/
15 April 2023 at the Medem Centre
The icon of Yiddish music in France shares her lyrics and views during this exceptional meeting. Unpublished documents tell the story of her personal journey, the migration of her Polish Jewish family and her childhood in France. This will of integration while keeping some madeleines of Proust or herring with onions of Talila.
https://www.centre-medem.org/recevoir-le-programme
10 June 2023 at the House of Yiddish Culture – Medem Library
How about a little more… music? That’s what the name of the group means in Yiddish. The pleasure of going back to the table and watching the dishes being passed around or on stage with notes that do the same. The Nora Bisele, a group composed of Elsa Signorile and Raphaele Merdrignac, are back with their show “Ayulu” and their first album of the same name.
17 May 2023 at the Maimonides Institute
The meeting with the eminent historian and professor emeritus of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne will take place around the theme evoked in his latest book “Marcel Proust, saying goodbye to the Jewish world”.
https://www.maimonide-institut.com/agenda
21 May 2023 at the Shoah Memorial in Drancy
On the occasion of the publication of Sortis de l’ombre. Gypsies, Resistance fighters and Communists. Investigation into the ignored massacres of the “Das Reich” division by Gilles Alfonsi, the conference will review the conclusions of the book’s author in his presence. In a conversation with Eduardo Castillo, he answers the following questions: Why has the fate of these nomads remained in the shadows? How can we analyse the silence on the role of the “citizen collaboration” alongside the occupier?
March 21, 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Australia
Curator and author Jakub Nowakowski and his dual-title colleague Ariele Hoffman explore the growing interest in Jewish culture among non-Jewish Poles. In particular, they examine the complex motivations behind modern Poland and Ukraine’s efforts to come to terms with their Jewish past.
https://www.jewishmuseum.com.au/events/polands-unlikely-jewish-revival-2/
May 18 – September 24, 2023 at the Illinois Holocaust Museum, USA
In 1945, the diary of a 14-year-old Jewish girl was found in Auschwitz-Birkenau. It had been written by Rywka Lipszyc and described her life in the Łódz ghetto between October 1943 and April 1944. The diary describes family life at that time and the difficult daily life in the ghetto. More than sixty years after its discovery, the work was brought to the United States, translated and published. An exhibition is dedicated to it, with historical documents, interactive touch screens, documentary videos and rare photographs. It has been organised in partnership with the Jewish Museum of Galicia.
7 June to 24 September 2023 at the Oregon Jewish Museum, USA
The exhibition traces the strong ties in Amsterdam between the famous painter and the Jews, mainly from Spain and Portugal where they had fled the Inquisition. In this city, they were able to find freedom of worship and culture. In his interpretations of biblical themes, Rembrandt was inspired by discussions with Jewish theologians, but he was also the one who painted portraits of Jews who were happy as a Jew in the Amsterdam of that time. A total of 22 works are presented in this exhibition.
February 23, 2023 at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, USA
Just one year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Museum offers this conversation about Ukrainian Jewish life. Misha Galperin, executive director of the Weitzman Museum, and journalist Vladislav Davidzon, who has covered the country for fifteen years, discuss the contemporary Jewish history of Ukraine, Jewish accounts of last year’s war, and questions about the future of the Jewish community in Ukraine. This conference can also be viewed by zooming in.
Until April 30, 2023 at the Michigan Holocaust Center
The exhibition explores the life and work of Hrusov-born Erich Lichtblau-Leskly (1911-2004), a Czech Jewish artist who used art and satire as tools of coping and resistance during his imprisonment in the Theresienstadt camp. He made these works in secret, presenting the brutality of everyday life. His wife saved these works by hiding them under the floor of the barracks. Erich then used the fragments to recreate larger, brighter, more elaborate versions, with writings and captions to better understand what he was trying to convey. https://www.holocaustcenter.org/exhibitions/featured/
May 4 – September 3, 2023 at the Skirball Cultural Center, California, USA
In these times of war in Ukraine, it is also interesting to look back at the cultural influence of people from this country. Like Peter Krasnow (1886-1979), who was born in Novograd Volynsk and lived for much of his life in Glendale, California. His work, inspired by his Jewish cultural heritage, the Yiddish language and old tales, blended with the carefree Californian spirit. The exhibition features his post-war paintings and their message of resilience, responding to the chaos and war scenes of his time with an influx of colour, joy and life.
https://www.skirball.org/museum/peter-krasnow-breathing-joy-and-light
May 4, 2023 at the University of Oklahoma, USA
Professor Steven Nadler, who teaches at the University of Wisconsin, presents in this lecture the links between the famous Dutch painter and the Jewish population of Amsterdam, especially the religious figures. Rembrandt was one of the most influential portrait painters and also one of the first renowned artists to paint everyday Jewish people.
https://www.ou.edu/cas/judaicstudies/events
February 22, 2023 at the University of Wisconsin, USA
The University of Michigan professor analyses how Jewish revival in Poland has been taking place since the beginning of the 21st century. This is largely driven by a non-Jewish population interested in the history of the Jews in this country, its great moments and dark hours. But also through an appreciation of klezmer music and gastronomy, as well as trips to Israel. This lecture can also be viewed by zooming in.
https://cjs.wisc.edu/event/zubrzycki
8 March 2023 at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
Adrienne Boyarin presents a new open website to explore the lives and records of Jewish women of this period. Little known and shared material. Hence a discussion on the day about the methodological difficulty of finding and presenting this material, as well as the verification of multiple sources and the decoupling of multiple influences.
https://cjs.fas.harvard.edu/news-events/events/
21 February 2023 at the University of Michigan, USA
Sasha Senderovich presents his new book How the Soviet Jew was Made (Harvard University Press, 2022). In it, the scholar analyses how Russian and Yiddish literature and film attempted to recast the Soviet Jew as a new cultural figure in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution. In particular, it looks at the upheavals of a country in the midst of change, allowing the inhabitants of the shtetls to integrate the big cities and participate in the new model of society. And to see how the arts and letters represented these incarnations.