17 December 2024 at 8pm at the Centre Medem
Sylvie-Anne Goldberg, director of the Jewish studies group at the Historical Research Centre (EHESS), led a team of 150 specialists in writing the essential book Jewish History of France (Albin Michel, 2023). The aim is to present the long and rich contribution of Jews to the history of France, from Roman times to the present day. In so many spheres and in so many different ways. A work undertaken in particular to combat the invisibilisation of this history and this contribution witnessed in contemporary school textbooks.
Histoire juive de la France-avec Sylvie-Anne Goldberg – Centre Medem
19 December 2024 at 6.30pm at the Musée départemental de la Résistance et de la Déportation
This lecture by Elérika Leroy of the Haute-Garonne Museum of Resistance and Deportation, and Sonya Beyron, Remembrance Coordinator for the Occitanie region at the National Office for Combatants and Victims of War, is presented as part of the events organised in Haute-Garonne to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Liberation. These events are an opportunity to pay tribute to the heroes and heroines of the Liberation in Toulouse, and to the maquis of the department, thanks to the work carried out by the departmental museum.
Le Musée départemental de la Résistance & de la Déportation | Haute-Garonne
Until 8 December 2024
Since 7 November, a number of events and meetings have been taking place with Hebraica: lecture by the Genealogy Circle of Paris (12 November at 6.30pm at the EDJ), concert “A violon in History” (14 November at 8pm at the Salle San Subra), concert by the Rana Choir (16 November at 30.30pm at the Salle GESU), screening of the film L’Armée des ombres (Army of Shadows) (18 November at 7.30pm at the Cratère cinema), lecture by Maurice Lugassy on the theme of “the Jewish army” (21 November at 6.30pm at the Castelet of the Saint-Michel prison), screening of the film La plus précieuse des marchandises (The most precious of goods) (25 November at 8.30pm at the ABC), concert by Trio Raisin et Amandes (26 November at 8pm at the Goethe Institut), meeting with Henri Raczymow (28 November at 6.30pm at the Espace Diversités Laïcité), screening of the film Gens de Casa (30 November at 6.30pm at the Cratère cinema), The Tsedaka Day (1 December at the Phare de Tournefeuille), meeting with Rachal Kahn (2 December at 6.30pm at the Espace Diversités Laïcité), conference on the Jewish Army (5 December at 6.30pm at the Musée Départemental de la Résistance et de la Déportation) and the Limmud days on 7 and 8 December at the EDJ.
16 November 2024 at 7pm at IUMAT
This concert, in partnership with “Chrétiens et cultures and Anima, Festival de Musiques Sacrées, 24th edition Fraternité”, will focus on sharing the theme of love and its various artistic and linguistic expressions. Pieces in Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish and Hebrew drawing on ancient inspirations mixed with contemporary expressions, in search of a harmonious world. Dutch artist Shura Lipovsky is best known for her Yiddish and klezmer work. She is accompanied on stage by Bert Vos (violin), Marjolijn van Roon (flutes) and Kimball Huigens (piano).
Shura Lipovsky et son Novaya Shira Trio en concert – IUMAT
15 December 2024 at 4pm at the Drancy Shoah Memorial
The last survivors of the Shoah are leaving us, but questions about the subject are returning thanks to the work of historians, concerns linked to current events, but also through encounters with objects from the past. Anne Berest, author of La Carte postale (The Postcard) and Marie de Lattre, author of La Promesse (The Promise), will share with the public how investigations enabled them to shed light on the dark areas of their family history during the Second World War. A look at the past helps us to better understand the present and the silences that are a heavy burden, but often necessary to ensure a will to go on when the weight of the past is sometimes impossible for survivors to confront.
Mémorial de la Shoah | Boutique en ligne
15 December 2024 at 3.30pm at the Musée Albert Kahn
The battlefield of human emotions has been at the heart of cinema since its inception and is at the heart of its greatest works. The same goes for the urban environment in which they evolve. But nature has also proved to be a great inspiration for the seventh art. The sessions provide a better understanding of the significance of the place of plants and trees in certain films. Following the first two sessions, another is planned to show a series of experimental films. It will be hosted by Teresa Castro, Alice Leroy and the Lightcone association.
Les plantes font leur cinéma – Musée Albert Kahn
Until 4 May 2025 at 2.30pm at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère
The museum offers a guided tour of its permanent exhibition every first Sunday of the month. The tour takes visitors through the three levels of the museum, providing a better understanding of how the people of Isère lived through the Second World War. The guide takes a chronological and thematic look at the events leading up to the occupation, followed by the terrible hours of repression and deportation. Then there is a third section on the Liberation of the region. The temporary exhibition is also dedicated to the Liberation.
Until 21 December 2024 at the National Memorial of Montluc’s jail
This exhibition, produced in partnership with the Association des rescapés de Montluc (Association of Montluc survivors), highlights the actions undertaken by the association since its creation in the autumn of 1944. In particular, the census of former internees taken after the Liberation and the way in which they were helped. The internees were released on 14 August 1944. Following the closure of Montluc prison in 2009, the association devoted itself to participating in the creation of the Memorial. Since then, it has continued to research the period and the fate of the internees, as well as sharing the memory.
Until 11 January 2025 at CHRD
A tour in which first-hand accounts and objects from the period provide a better understanding of the complexity of the actions of the Lyon Resistance and the issues at stake at the time. It’s also about the complexity of combining the motivations for armed involvement of the different currents of the Resistance and optimising the contributions. The exhibition provides an opportunity to rediscover those who took part in those terrible hours, and the many different ways in which they fought against the occupying forces and their militias.
Résistances | CHRD | Musée d’histoire | Lyon dans la guerre, 1939-1945
6 March 2025 at 7pm at the Institut Universitaire Européen Rachi
The historian Isabelle Cohen, in charge of the Jewish culture commission of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, presents the contribution of ancient texts of Hebraic wisdom to contemporary debates. How can this wisdom contribute to a better understanding of our own person, and clarify our relationship with others in a better approach to the definition of the feminine being? Starting with the Genesis text on the tree of knowledge.
Conférences – Institut Universitaire Européen Rachi
At the Judeo-Alsatian Museum in Bouxwiller
Norbert and Moritz Max Neiger contributed to the glory of their Czech town, Gablonz, by developing the diamond industry there, creating fabulous Art Deco jewellery for the costume jewellery market. The German invasion and annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938 led to the disappearance of most of Bohemia’s Jewish communities. The Neiger family thought they would find refuge in Prague, but they were sent to the Łódź ghetto in 1941 and subsequently murdered. This exhibition pays tribute to their creativity and influence on the costume jewellery industry.
Evénements 2024 | construction
November 8, at 8 p.m. on the Anako Barge
Follow the notes, set off on the waves to join the musical universe of folklorist Ruth Rubin (1906-2000) and her popular imagination inhabited by rebellious young women, clandestine couples, deceived men, workers, craftsmen, of thieves and revolutionaries. The “little people” of this world sing, rock, chant and chant. He speaks to our times with sometimes disconcerting relevance.
With Eléonore Biezunski on vocals and violin, Piotr Odrekhivskyy on accordion, Michel Schick on clarinet and flute, Michel Taieb on banjo and François Puyalto on double bass.
Yerushe – musique yiddish — Anako
October 31, 2024, at 6:30 p.m. at Beit Café
The author Ilya Fellous welcomes the public for an encounter at this café filled with a warm atmosphere, where the cultural references of the shtetl and Frishman meet on the walls, shelves and in the dishes…
October 28, 2024, at 4:30 p.m. at the Café des Psaumes
This conference takes place as part of the presentation of the book “The Sewn Shadows” with François Azar, vice-president of Aki Estamos. The Café des Psaumes offers numerous workshops, courses, concerts, conferences and shows in one of the favorite places of the Pletzl nostalgics, located on the legendary rue des Rosiers…
From 19 September to 31 October at the Saphir gallery
The gallery presents the first retrospective of the work of Spanish artist Elisabeth Ollé Curiel. This coincides with the publication of her monograph, ‘La beauté voyageuse’, written by art historian Delphine Durand. Because of her origins, she reinterprets the colours of the Caribbean in an invigorating multicultural expression. Her work draws on Venezuelan, Amerindian, Sephardic Jewish and Catalan references, breaking down boundaries.
Elisabeth OLLE CURIEL | 19 September – 31 October 2024 – Overview | GALERIE SAPHIR
8 and 9 October 2024, 8pm at Espace Rachi – Guy de Rothschild
To pay tribute to the victims, musicians, singers and actors will take to the stage on two evenings organised by the Les Théâtres de Rachi. Sharing texts, poems and songs of remembrance and consolation. It’s a clear commitment to resilience, to standing up after demonstrations of inhuman brutality, in order to fight against oblivion, drive out hatred and work for peace.
Centre d’Art et de Culture Juive – Vivre ! – Centre d’Art et de Culture Juive (culture-juive.fr)
September 21 and 22, 2024, at 9:30 pm at the Synagogue di Alessandria and the Synagogue di Vercelli
As part of the Nessiah Music Festival 2024, and following the many events organized during the European Day of Jewish Culture on September 15, two concerts are proposed. The first allows the rather original encounter between tango and Jewish music, while the second offers nothing more and nothing less than a musical dream return to the beginning of the 20th century.
Torino Ebraica – Comunità Ebraica di Torino
October 29, 2024, at 8 p.m.
The Jewish Community of Geneva (CIG), in partnership with Gil, B’nai B’rith and Geneva Jewish Heritage, is offering a series of tours on prominent Genevan Jewish women in the city. Starting with the Spierer family. A family whose daring humanitarian actions saved thousands of Greek lives during the Balkan War in 1916-18 and the Smyrna catastrophe in 1922.
January 17, 2025, between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. at the Jewish Museum of Switzerland
Every year in January, from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., 40 museums and cultural institutions in the Basel region offer a varied artistic and cultural program, in dialogue with literature, music, cinema and theater. Among these, the Jewish Museum of Switzerland, allowing visitors an original approach to its journey and its works.
Evénements – Juedisches Museum Schweiz (juedisches-museum.ch)
Until January 17, 2025 at the Maribor Synagogue
This exhibition highlights Slovak Jewish women or women from the country whose work resonates internationally. Women’s careers chosen from a wide spectrum of disciplines: science, arts, economics. Which are linked to different eras and challenges.
Women. Stories of Women Who Influenced the World – Sinagoga Maribor
At the Jewish Museum of Galicia
Renia Spiegel (1924-1942) wrote this childhood diary in Przemysl during the last three years of her short life. A source of history that helps us better understand the period, but also a work of Polish Jewish literature, it bears witness to the talent of this young woman murdered by the Nazis at the age of 18. The Jewish Museum of Galicia, in partnership with the Foundation for Education and Art, as well as the American Consulate in Krakow, produced a series of short films as part of an educational mission. These present Renia’s journey, her personality and her work, while contextualizing this through written and photographic archives.
Until 16 March 2025 at the JHI
This exhibition has been organised to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the Lodz ghetto. For four years, 200,000 Jews were imprisoned there, both natives of Lodz and those deported from other towns and regions. Many perished from starvation and disease due to the harsh conditions, while others were deported and murdered in the camps. The exhibition looks back at the particularly harsh conditions in which they survived. Despite this, some prisoners found the strength and courage to document these conditions, which will also be presented during the exhibition.
From 22 November 2024 at the Jewish Museum Amsterdam
It was not only Freud who was interested in the place of sexuality in society and in Judaism. This question is present in biblical texts, but also in other ancient documents, works of art and new forms of expression. The exhibition attempts to address this subject, particularly in the context of the centrality of marriage, procreation and desire, but also taboos and the evolution of these perceptions in Judaism.
SEX: Jewish Positions | Exhibition | Jewish… | Jewish Cultural Quarter (jck.nl)
From 1 February to 4 May 2025 at the Rembrandt Museum
Samuel van Hoogstraten worked with the master in his studio, learning in particular about the link between illusion and visual deception. This exhibition provides an opportunity to discover his work and Rembrandt’s influence on it, as well as on the works of other students. Van Hoogstraten did not limit himself to painting, publishing books on painting techniques. This exhibition has been produced in partnership with the Vienna Museum of Art History.
The illusionist – Rembrandthuis
At the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights, on 17 November 2024 at 7.30pm
In this lecture, historians Daniel Thilman and Karola Fings will focus on the history of the Porajmos, the murder of the Sinti and Roma, as well as the fight for remembrance and the historical treatment of this genocide. The lecture is part of the ‘Forgotten Victims’ exhibition, which is on show at the museum until 22 December 2024.
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At the Jewish Museum of Latvia
Born Meiers Joffe in Vitebsk, like another famous colleague, the painter Mihails Jo lived most of his life in Riga, where he pursued many other artistic activities as a graphic designer, theatre set designer, teacher and art critic. Using decorative elements, drawings and book illustrations, the exhibition presents this creative diversity. Some of the works are from the permanent collection of the Jewish Museum of Latvia, while others are presented exclusively.
17 November, 2pm
The House of Jewish Culture, in partnership with the CCLJ, is organising a guided tour of the Cureghem synagogue, inaugurated in 1933, in this working-class district of Brussels. This was a time when many Jews fled the pogroms of Eastern Europe and the rise of Nazism in Germany. It is one of the last remaining Jewish buildings from this period, which is why it is so important to visit it. In 2024, the Jewish community, keen to preserve its heritage, had the Anderlecht synagogue classified as a Monument by the Region.
La Synagogue Art-Déco d’Anderlecht – La Maison de la Culture Juive
4 November 2024, 12.30pm at the CCLJ
A discussion with Albert Aniel, Sophie Milquet (Fondation de la Mémoire contemporaine) and Yannik van Praag (Fondation Auschwitz) on the book “Anderlecht’s triangle: Jewish memories of a neighborhood”. The book gives participants an insight into the history of the Jewish populations who migrated from Eastern Europe to the working-class districts of Brussels. Not least in this district, which is best known in Europe today for the football club that bears its name. The book presents a polyphonic account of the economic and cultural life of local Jews from the 19th century to the present day.
Le triangle à Anderlecht : Mémoires juives d’un quartier – CCLJ
Until 16 March 2025 at Museum Dorotheergasse
Eighty years after the Shoah, the last witnesses are disappearing. The challenge is to share their memory in the broadest sense of the term. Individual memory of shattered lives, collective memory that also serves to combat new genocides. The generation of survivors armed themselves with this formidable resilience to show that they would not only survive, that they would live and work tirelessly to ensure that the lives of future generations would be happy. The second generation was confronted with the silences in the face of the need to rebuild, and this wave of the past was difficult for their parents to confront. This exhibition provides an opportunity to analyse the variety of ways in which the third generation approached this memory and their involvement in humanist struggles around the world, as well as their fears for future generations.
Exhibition Detail | Jüdisches Museum Wien (jmw.at)
3 November 2024, 10am
This guided tour allows participants to discover the permanent exhibition, which tells the story of the Jewish community from the 17th century to the Shoah, as well as the survivors’ return with the debates of the time about the duty to remember and the difficulty of confronting these issues with the many dead and exiled. Visitors discover the stories and challenges of each period, through the stories of local families, as well as daily life and the celebration of Jewish festivals. The tour continues in the former Jewish quarter of Hohenems. Audioguides in English are provided for this tour.