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.
THE BIG MIX 2023 – Jewish Music Institute (jmi.org.uk)
Until 7 January 2024 at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt
The exhibition is dedicated to Wilhelm Merton, his life, work and activities. Born into a Jewish family in Frankfurt in 1848, Merton contributed to the development of the city and was involved in social reforms for the benefit of its inhabitants. A captain of industry, Merton founded the Metallgesellschaft in 1881, which went on to become one of the world’s largest non-ferrous mining companies. His immense success motivated him to share his wealth, campaigning for workers’ rights to pensions, medical care and improved conditions in many areas – taboo subjects at the height of the industrial revolution. He financed numerous social and cultural institutions and became the largest donor to Frankfurt University.
Ausstellung: Meta & Society – Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt (juedischesmuseum.de)
From 8 September 2023 to 14 January 2024 at the Jewish Museum Berlin
For the first time ever, the Jewish Museum Berlin is presenting an exhibition dealing with Jewish life in East Germany from the post-war period to reunification and its subsequent development. With the help of a large number of documents, the cultural history is brought to the fore, thanks to films, texts and works of art. Complex issues such as the desire of Jews to return to East Germany in the aftermath of the Shoah, with the ambition of helping to found an anti-fascist state, will be examined. Activities will include a concert by the Stren-Combo Meißen group, as well as works by Silvia Dzubas, Lea Grundig, Barbara Honigmann, Marion Kahnemann, Yael Reuveny and Vera Singer.
Another Country | Jewish Museum Berlin (jmberlin.de)
Until November 26, 2023 at Cercil – Musée Mémorial des enfants du Vel d’Hiv
From Calvo’s La Bête est morte (The Beast is Dead) to Spirou, via X-Men, Maus and many others, the theme of the Holocaust has been tackled in many different ways in comics. This exhibition allows visitors to question the visual sources of these representations, their relevance, their scope and their limits. It has been produced with the help of scientific curators Didier Pasamonik and Joël Kotek.
SHOAH ET BANDE DESSINEE – Cercil Musée-Mémorial des enfants du Vel d’Hiv (musee-memorial-cercil.fr)
September 3 to October 27, 2023 in Metz
Numerous events are organized around the theme of memory, this 20th year in Lorraine. The festivities kick off on September 3 with an open day at the consistorial synagogue on rue Elie Bloch, a Hebrew calligraphy workshop led by Michel D’Anastasio, lectures by Alain Nedjar and Joëlle Allouche (President and Vice-President of the Cercle de Généalogie Juive), and M. Fiszon (Chief Rabbi of Moselle). The event concludes with a Swing Klezmer concert by the Amsellem quintet.
Programme JECJ Lorraine 2023 | JECJ Lorraine
October 19, 2023 at 7:30 pm at the Centre Fleg
In the spirit of its first back-to-school concerts, the Centre Fleg welcomes back the group Basilic Swing, sharing their klezmer, jazz and gypsy influences. This quintet from Marseilles will take its audience on a journey between traditional European music and American jazz.
September 20, 2023 to January 15, 2024 at the Orangerie Museum
In 1914, through Max Jacob, the young gallery owner and collector Paul Guillaume met Amedeo Modigliani. The artist painted his gallerist on several occasions, one of these works being on display at the Orangerie Museum. This exhibition celebrates this great encounter and the links between the two men, which went beyond the financial sphere. The paintings of one and the writings of the other allow visitors to discover the influences and expectations, shared tastes and ambitions.
Exposition Amedeo Modigliani. Un peintre et son marchand | Musée de l’Orangerie (musee-orangerie.fr)
September 3, 2023 at the mahJ
Jewish culinary traditions, from the contours of the Mediterranean to the deep villages of Eastern Europe, are the gastronomic palettes around which unforgettable family moments and inspiring artists and authors are created, from the Singer family to Albert Cohen, from Claude Lelouch to Woody Allen. How can we forget Mangeclous’ long description of his moussaka, or the way a child indulges in a cake in Once Upon a Time in America? The mahJ is organizing a whole day devoted to these traditions, as part of the European Days of Jewish Culture and the Traversées du Marais festival. Family workshops, meetings with authors and presenters, a book sale, genealogical research and a presentation of Grandmas Project, a documentary series honoring the timeless recipes of grandmothers.