14 June 2026 at 2.30 pm on Judenplatz
This Jewish street festival, organised by IKG.Kultur, will once again bring together music, food and socialising this summer, in a spirit of family-friendly and open-minded sharing. Among the planned activities are folk music and Israeli dances by the Noya Showband, a traditional Bukharian performance by the Meirov brothers, as well as a foodie corner with tastings of kosher specialities, and the presence of 40 Jewish associations, artists and designers.
Jüdisches Straßenfest 2026 :: Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien
9 June 2026 at 6.30 pm at the Dorotheergasse Museum
This book presentation takes place as part of a discussion between Lisa Silverman, Éva Kovács and Michael L. Miller, in cooperation with the Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies in Vienna and the Programme in Jewish Studies at Central European University. The discussion will focus in particular on how the ‘figural anti-Semite’ played a central role in the narratives of trials, films and literature that allowed anti-Jewish prejudices to persist.
Lisa Silverman : « L’antisémite d’après-guerre. Culture et complicité après l’Holocauste »
7 June 2026 at 1pm at the National Holocaust Museum
The Jewish community of Baghdad dates back more than 2,700 years. In June 1941, a pogrom took place that claimed many lives and led to the gradual departure of this ancient community. This lecture will explore issues relating to the eradication of Jewish communities in Baghdad and many other cities across the Arab world during the 20th century.
Middle East & Holocaust: Baghdad’s Lost Heritage
9 June 2026 at 8.15 pm at the City Picturehouse
As part of this month’s cultural festivities, an evening event is being organised to present a series of short films covering a variety of topics. Among the shorts to be screened are 100 Faces, The Peacock that Passed Over, Hannah Cohen’s Holy Communion, The 10th Man, Orphaned Burial Grounds, Growing up Mizrahi and The Chop.
Best of British: Jewish Culture Month + Q&A – Norwich – UK Jewish Film
27 May 2026 at 6pm at Curzon Aldgate
As part of this month’s cultural celebrations, an evening event is being organised to present a series of short films covering a range of subjects, from bar and bat mitzvahs, the friendship between an elderly conman and a young man, a long-awaited reunion between friends, a black comedy set in the East End, loneliness in the face of passing time, the childhood of a girl of Iraqi Jewish origin in an Ashkenazi community, and a butcher’s career change in the films Hannah Cohen’s Holy Communion, Beshert, Sidney Turtlebaum, Primordial Chicken Soup, The 10th Man, Orphaned Burial Grounds, Growing up Mizrahi and The Chop.Best of British: Jewish Culture Month – Aldgate – UK Jewish Film
11 June at 7pm at the Synagogue
A young group is hosting a musical evening as part of Jewish Culture Month 2026. The musical programme is inspired by popular Andalusian and Sephardic songs. This journey takes the audience to the distant lands of Sephardic life, celebrating the beauty of life in the face of adversity. The group comprises the artists Lily Fowke-Green, Miluka Javadi-Anstey, Mykola Maleikyi, Nicholas Delargey-Crawley, Pia Brondel, Oscar Fairclough, Ben Salwey, Jake Rowley, Maya Joliffe, Naomi Isaacs and Sarah Fore.
Manchester Jewish Museum — Troubadour: In the Footsteps of the Sephardim
25 May 2026, from 11am to 4pm in Manchester
This day out exploring Manchester’s historic Jewish cultural heritage features a range of events, including tours of the museum’s galleries and the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, as well as workshops and presentations of artefacts from the museum. This event is organised as part of Jewish Culture Month 2026.
Manchester Jewish Museum — Synagogue Stories: Discover Jewish Manchester
A four-day long weekend to share in the joys and emotions of Yiddish culture through music, literature, film and a series of workshops and London-based discoveries. Over the course of these days, numerous artists and academics will share the diversity of this language and culture, as well as its contemporary contributions. Among the events on offer: Froyen Lider: Yiddish Zingeray of Songs By and About Women, Advanced Klezmer String Class: Style, Accompaniment, Arrangement, Contemporary Yiddish Poetry, What’s Yiddish about Yiddish Art Song?, Yiddish Masterclass, Jewish Whitechapel: An Archive Workshop, Yiddish London, 1880–2026, Postkartl-klub, Yiddish Choir in Style, Song Lab for Singers with or without Bands, Klezmer Tune Club: Dive into a Tune, Golem Rising: The Afterlives of Yiddish Literature, Session with Merlin Shepherd, Not That Kind of Hora: Moldovan-Yiddish Tunes for Playing and Dancing…
YIDDISH CULTURE WEEKEND 2026 — EARLY BIRD TICKETS NOW ON SALE – Jewish Music Institute
7 June 2026, 6pm to 8pm
This walk focuses on Franz Kafka’s relationship with Berlin and the various aspects of the city and the emotions it evoked in the author. His first relationship with Felice Bauer encouraged him to make several trips to Berlin in the 1910s. Then came his romantic relationship with Dora Diamant, who worked at the Jewish People’s Home in Berlin’s Scheunenviertel. The meeting point for this walk is in front of the entrance to Berlin’s New Synagogue.
Marche du soir à l’occasion de l’anniversaire de la mort de Franz Kafka – Centrum Judaicum
19 June 2026, 10am–4pm at the Jewish Museum Munich
This workshop, organised in collaboration with Mirjam Elsel (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria) and Sapir von Abel (Jewish Museum Munich), explores the topic of religion-sensitive mediation, using Judaism as an example. In a spirit of harmonious cooperation between religions, based on mutual understanding and encounters. The workshop presents the religious and ideological diversity in Bavaria.
Détails – Musée juif de Munich
Until 31 October 2026 at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Daniel Libeskind is renowned as a leading contemporary architect. He has designed numerous Jewish museums, including those in Copenhagen and Berlin. The zigzag-shaped building designed by the New York architect has, in fact, become one of Berlin’s most famous architectural landmarks. To mark its 25th anniversary, the Jewish Museum Berlin has organised an exhibition focusing on the building and the era in which it was created.
Between the Lines | Jewish Museum Berlin
19 April 2026, at 2 pm
The Maison de la Culture Juive is offering a series of themed guided walks. This walk focuses on the Jewish section of Dieweg, where some of Brussels’s most prominent figures are buried – symbols of the emancipation of Belgium’s Jewish community following the country’s independence. More than just a stroll through the paths of a cemetery that has now become a rural park, this is an opportunity to discover the Jews who helped shape Belgium.
Le carré Juif du cimetière du Dieweg – CCLJ
Until 5 May 2026 at the Maribor Synagogue
This exhibition presents the drawings of the Austrian Jewish artist Gisela Rottonara, who was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on 10 July 1942, where she died in January 1943. Around sixty pencil drawings in a diary depict the terrible daily life of those who were imprisoned and killed there.
Images de Theresienstadt – Synagogue de Maribor
19 April 2026, from 9am to 6pm
To celebrate its 120th anniversary, the Jewish Museum in Prague invites visitors to explore the Josefov district and its magnificent historic synagogues. The aim is to help visitors understand the complexity of Prague’s Jewish heritage and its significance within the city’s cultural landscape. Free tours and cultural programmes are being organised, including an exhibition by photographer Karel Cudlín and a talk on vegetarian Jewish cuisine.
Events | Exhibitions, Tours & Monuments
Until 8 November 2026 at the National Holocaust Museum
This exhibition, organised in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation, presents the stories of 12 Holocaust survivors – 11 Jews and one Romani person – from various European countries. As part of the exhibition, technological tools enable visitors to ask questions and receive answers based on the themes explored. The USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive has collected 59,702 filmed testimonies from 69 countries and in 44 languages.
Exhibtion: Please Continue… Conversations… | Jewish Cultural Quarter
On 22 April 2026, at 7.30 pm at the National Museum of the Resistance and Human Rights in Esch
This round table brings together historians Laurence Schram (Kazerne Dossin) and Daniel Thilman (C2DH), as well as Henri Juda (a second-generation survivor). They will discuss the history of the camp, Convoy XX and the fate of the Jews from Luxembourg deported to Mechelen. Convoy XX, which left Mechelen for Auschwitz on 19 April 1943, carried 1,631 Jews. 236 of the deportees managed to jump from the train thanks to the intervention of the Resistance.mnr.lu/manifestation/table-ronde-le-camp-de-transit-de-malines-et-lhistoire-du-xxe-convoi-19h30-at-musee-fr
Until 30 June 2026 at the Jewish Museum of Bologna
This in-depth documentary investigation into the networks of complicity and the routes that enabled thousands of war criminals to escape international justice after the fall of the Third Reich is on display at the museum. It traces how the Nazis organised their escape, the establishment of networks and the assistance provided, notably by ‘reputable’ international organisations, as well as the ‘welcoming’ destinations for Nazi criminals, particularly in Syria and South America. The exhibition pays tribute to ‘Nazi hunters’ such as Simon Wiesenthal, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, and the public prosecutor Fritz Bauer.
As every year, the Jewish Community of Turin is taking part in numerous events organised to mark 25 April, celebrating Italy’s liberation from fascist rule. These include, on 14 April at 6 pm, a tribute to Giuliana Fiorentino Tedeschi, who was deported to Auschwitz and to whom a garden in Piazza Bernini is dedicated; the Emanuele Artom march, which will take place from Pier 17 at Porta Nuova to Piazzetta Primo Levi on 15 April at 11.00; and the lecture, to be held at the Community Social Centre on Sunday 26 April at 17.30, led by Liliana Picciotto, a leading researcher at the CDEC, on Jewish participation in the Resistance.
25 AVRIL DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ JUIVE – Communauté juive de Turin
Until 5 April 2026 at the CDEC
This documentary exhibition, thanks to loans from public and private archives, reconstructs the lives ofDino Molho and Dario Molho, two Jewish boys from Milan affected by the Holocaust. Having grown up on the same street and both of Greek origin, Dino and Dario experienced the horrors of the Holocaust in different ways: Dino managed to flee, whilst Dario was deported. The exhibition highlights the persecution of Jews in Italy as a process punctuated by administrative measures, progressive restrictions and harassment, interwoven with chance circumstances, acts of assistance or indifference.
7 May 2026 at 5pm at the Aalborg Theatre
A series of talks accompanies the staging of this cult play, which has been adapted into an equally cult film, and whose humanist values are shared and cherished around the world, particularly in Japan and Denmark. In collaboration with Aalborg Folkeuniversitet, exhibition curator Sara F. Stadager provides insights into the play.
7 May 2026 at 5pm at the Aalborg Theatre
A series of talks accompanies the staging of this cult play, which has been adapted into an equally cult film, and whose humanist values are shared and cherished around the world, particularly in Japan and Denmark. In collaboration with Aalborg Folkeuniversitet, exhibition curator Sara F. Stadager provides insights into the play.
16 April 2026, at 7pm, at the Secular Jewish Community Centre (CCLJ)
This monthly event brings together the enthusiasm of Hebrew artistic creativity. It features a mix of musical and linguistic performances, in a rich and joyful blend of cultures and styles. A cabaret atmosphere with, as is customary in Belgium, beer, wine and good cheer also on the programme.
7 May 2026 at 8pm at the New Synagogue in Berlin
This unique venue in Berlin, which serves as both a museum and a centre for cultural exchange, is dedicated to preserving and sharing Berlin’s Jewish cultural heritage, as well as building bridges between Jews and non-Jews. This concert series pays tribute to four courageous women who risked their lives to save Jewish children during the Holocaust.
Chamber Concerts Irena Sendler The Rescuer of the Children from the Warsaw Ghetto – Centrum Judaicum
Until 17 September 2026 at the Jewish Museum Vienna
This exhibition explores the theme of forgetting through the lens of power and its absence – a complex connection, as suggested by the Hebrew words for power (koach) and forgetting (lishkoach). In particular, it addresses this difficult issue in the context of Austria’s reluctance to confront its past during the Holocaust, right up until the Waldheim Affair in 1986. Artists taking part include Arnold Dreyblatt, Dani Gal, Esther Hovers, Brigitte Kowanz, Maya Schweizer, Sigrid Sigurdsson, William Utermohlen and Patrick Zachmann.
28 May 2026 at 11.30 am
This theme is explored through the presentation of the personal stories of British Jews from different towns and eras. It aims to highlight the complexity of the Jewish experience, particularly through the lens of identity, by examining life stories and artefacts, past and present.
Jewish Culture Month Celebration
Until 24 June 2026 at the Manchester Jewish Museum
This exhibition explores the diverse activities of Maimonides – rabbi, author and scholar – and his remarkable life journey, viewed through the lens of history and his connection to the contemporary Sephardic world. The great thinker, born in Córdoba in the 12th century, travelled across the Mediterranean, blending Greek, Jewish and Arab influences in his thought. Workshops for children’s groups are being held simultaneously in Manchester and Marseille, using animated screenings and graphic novels.
Manchester Jewish Museum — Temporary Exhibition: “Maimonides from Scratch”
17–19 April 2026 in Youlgrave, Derbyshire
As every year, numerous artists and enthusiastic amateurs gather in the north of England to share their talents and love of klezmer. Among the artists gathered for this year’s three days of madness are Frank London, Polina Shepherd, Gica Loening, Avia Moore, Szilvia Csaranko and Michael Alpert.
KlezNorth | A festival of Klezmer music, dance and song
From 16 April to 30 July 2026 at JW3
This musical ensemble, bringing together adults with a passion for traditional Jewish music and intercultural exchange under the name JMI Community Orchestra, organises monthly sessions exploring different styles such as Maqam, the classical repertoire of Middle Eastern Jewish music, klezmer and folk. It is led by the renowned cellist and artistic director Shirley Smart.
JMI Community Orchestra @ JW3 – Jewish Music Institute
21 April 2026, at 5 pm
To mark the 200th anniversary of the inauguration of the synagogue on Westenriederstraße, the Jewish Museum Munich is organising a tour of the sites that once housed the city’s four former synagogues. The tour will explore the history and development of Munich’s Jewish community.
Details – Jewish Museum Munich
From 4 April to 27 September 2026 at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt
Based on conversations with Mike Diamond, one of the three artists from the iconic group the Beastie Boys, Atelier Markgraph, the IMA Clique and the museum have created this exhibition dedicated to the chosen family (Mishpocha meaning family in Yiddish) among artists, fostering inspiration, creation and sharing. Mike Diamond discusses the journey of the Beastie Boys—comprising three Jewish New Yorkers, Adam Horowitz and Adam Yauch—their musical influences ranging from punk to jazz and the rap that made them famous, but also, and above all, all the people they met along the way who formed this wonderful group. What’s the time? It’s time to get Mishpocha!