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!
MISHPOCHA – Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt
Until 13 September 2026 at the former Kriegshaber Synagogue
Based on the exhibition of the same name presented at the Jewish Museum Vienna by Adina Seeger and Tom Juncker, this exhibition focuses on the possibility of a world free from violence and terror, despite the ongoing armed conflicts around the globe. Monika Müller’s local adaptation of this exhibition was initiated to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and the 375th anniversary of the Augsburg Peace Festival.
PEACE | Jüdisches Museum Augsburg Schwaben
Until 25 June 2026 at the Rashi University Institute in Troyes
This highly original and profound programme, presented by Bernard Cunsolo, explores philosophical and spiritual reflections (Christian, Jewish and Muslim). A journey inviting participants to explore the word, revelation and the mystical experience across different traditions. A series offered in partnership with the Diocesan Training Centre (CDF).
Institut Universitaire Européen Rachi à Troyes – Grand Est
On 26 May 2026, at 8.30 pm for the first set and 10.15 pm for the second set, at the Récollets Convent
As part of the Sacré Sound Festival, two concerts offering two musical journeys are on offer at the Récollets Convent. First up, in the opening set, Franco-Syrian double bassist François Rabbath and his pianist son Sylvain present their compositions, inspired by atmospheres and landscapes gathered along the way. And by instruments that clash and stimulate one another: the double bass and the piano.
A musical duel in the sun that continues with Shiran and Bakal, blending their Yemeni and Iraqi musical heritages to create a wholly original world with Electro Baghdad, revisiting Iraqi songs passed down from generation to generation.
4 June 2026, at 8.30 pm at the Café de la Danse
As part of the Sacré Sound Festival, an orchestra made up of brothers and sisters of the heart, forming a wonderful chosen family, shares the words and maternal love embodied by ‘ima’ and ‘yemma’, meaning ‘mum’ in Hebrew and Arabic respectively. On stage, Yiddish and New York Jewish soul blend with Algiers chaabi and Moroccan Gnawa groove. Featuring David Konopnicki, Ptit Moh, Myriam Beldi, Deborah Sacks Minz, Yoshie Fruchter, Reine Rubis, Adhil Mirghani, Clémence Lasme and Gurvan Zytynski.
PROGRAMMATION | SACRÉ SOUND FESTIVAL
28 May 2026, at 8.30 pm, at the JEM Copernic Synagogue
As part of the Sacré Sound Festival, the Franco-Iranian mezzo-soprano blends her Eastern heritage and her passion for classical music with love and talent. Creating a series of musical epics that blend traditional, classical and jazz music, she shares her incisive perspective on the decline of women’s rights and the Iranian people’s uprising, in pursuit of a shared dream of brotherhood. She will be accompanied on stage for this occasion by Julien Carton, Rusan Filiztek and a guest singer.
PROGRAMMATION | SACRÉ SOUND FESTIVAL
22 March 2026 at 4pm at the Café des Psaumes
The singer-songwriter Dr Badache, accompanied by the virtuoso percussionist Paul Mindy, will perform their songs on this journey through nostalgia, with a particular focus on Algeria. When melancholy envelops an idealised past, or vice versa…
Le programme du Café des Psaumes
21 June 2026 at 5.30 pm at the Musée dauphinois
As part of the Music Festival, the Dauphinois Museum presents this concert to complement the exhibition “A Jewih Story”. The Grenoble-based Diasporim Zinger choir was formed in 1994 and has since been sharing the songs, melancholy and hopes of Yiddish music.
Concert de la chorale Diasporim Zinger – Institut Européen des Musiques Juives
In two parts, from 7 February to 21 September 2026 at the Marc Chagall National Museum
The exhibition presents a selection of the 141 works by Marc Chagall donated in 2022–2023 by his grandchildren Bella and Meret Meyer to the National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Georges Pompidou. Sketches and models created as part of the work on the ceiling of the Opéra Garnier, inaugurated in 1964. A second section brings together sixty-four sketches of the stage curtains and costumes for the ballet The Firebird, set to the score by Igor Stravinsky, revived by the New York City Ballet in 1945.
Chagall à l’oeuvre. Un prêt d’exception au musée | Musée National Marc Chagall
19 March 2026 at the Prado Paradis bookshop
To mark the publication of The Parallel Streets, the Edmond Fleg Centre is hosting a meeting with the author of this work, in which a simple metro ticket sets off an emotional journey of self-discovery and leads to unexpected encounters with people and objects.
Until 15 October 2026 at the Shoah Memorial in Paris
This exhibition, curated by filmmaker and photographer David Teboul, presents the intimate story of the Jacob family, from Simone Veil’s childhood in Nice to her life as a committed activist, via the terrible losses of the Holocaust. The exhibition brings together a wealth of documents (correspondence, photographs and interviews), enabling visitors to gain a deeper understanding of the close bond between Madeleine (Milou), Denise and Simone before, during and after the war.
Mémorial de la Shoah | Boutique en ligne
9 April 2026 at 7.30 pm at the Maison de la Culture Yiddish
The first talking film tells the story of a cantor: *The Jazz Singer*. But how was Yiddish culture brought to the big screen following its popular success in the theatre and vaudeville? Talila and Nadia Déhan-Rotschild bring these great songs and their performers back to life by exploring their presence in non-Yiddish-language documentaries and films. This lecture is organised with the support of the FMS.
Conférence musicale : Les chansons yiddish au cinéma – programme.yiddish.paris
16 April 2026, at 12.30 pm at the mahJ
As part of the ‘Art and Archaeology of Judaism’ series, Juliette Milbach, associate researcher at the Centre for Russian, Caucasian, East European and Central Asian Studies at EHESS, explores the life and work of Louis Lozowick. This socially engaged artist, born in Ukraine in 1892, immersed himself in the intellectual and artistic stimulation of Paris, where he frequented Fernand Léger, Constantin Brancusi and Marc Chagall, gradually becoming a key figure in bringing the artistic avant-garde of Eastern European Yiddish culture to Berlin and New York.
Les mondes yiddish de Louis Lozowick | Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme
From 16 April to 30 August 2026 at the mahJ
The works of Noa Eshkol (1924–2007), a leading figure in Israeli modern dance, are on display in France for the first time. Through drawings, photographs and videos, you will discover her technical contribution with the movement notation system she created in 1951 and the richness of her choreographies. Eshkol also devoted herself to the production of Wall Carpets, large-scale textile compositions, creating nearly 1,800 works across various fields.
Noa Eshkol, 1924-2007. Danse et compositions | Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme
11 April at 4pm at the Medem Centre
What happens when music takes hold of a suffering shtetl, awakening it to joyful sounds that battle against the world’s disenchantment? You will discover this in Yiddish and through the power of poetry in this theatrical reading of Aaron Lutski’s poem, brought to life by the voices of actor-readers Michel Tauber and Rafaël Goldwaser.
centre-medem.org/EVT/lecture-theatrale-avec-m-tauber-et-r-goldwaser-di-khasene-la-noce/
21 April 2026 at 6.30 pm at IUMAT
To mark the publication of her book The Culture of ultra-violence, the IUMAT welcomes legal scholar and author Rachel Kahn, alongside Alain Zylberman, President of the Regional Consistory, and Michaël Iancu, PhD in History and Director of the Maimonides Institute. They will discuss themes relating to the contemporary condition and dignity in the face of identity-based extremism.
La Culture de l’ultra-violence, par Rachel Khan – IUMAT
19 April 2026 at 4pm at the Jewish Cultural Association of Nancy
As it does every year, the ACJ commemorates the courage of this uprising, when young Jews, confined in appalling conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto, took up arms against the Nazis and put up a long resistance.
22 March 2026 at 1pm at the CCJC in Neuilly-sur-Seine
As every year, the Neuilly-sur-Seine Community Centre is hosting talks and meet-and-greets with around forty authors, offering visitors the chance to discover the latest literary releases and chat in a friendly atmosphere. A Café Gourmand area will also be available.
CCJC Neuilly-sur-Seine – Centre Communautaire et culturel de Neuilly-sur-Seine
29 March 2026 at 4pm at the Drancy Shoah Memorial
As part of the Seine-Saint-Denis’ Off Limits literary festival, the Drancy Memorial presents this talk on the painful and difficult themes of passing on memory across generations, particularly the handling of family trauma. It will also explore the role of literature and fiction in facilitating this process. With Lionel Duroy, author, Raphaël Sigal, author, and Carole Zalberg, author, and moderated by Eduardo Castillo.
Mémorial de la Shoah | Boutique en ligne
15 April 2026 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère
To share the history of the Resistance and the courageous individual and collective efforts with new generations, this workshop for children, taking the form of a group game, introduces participants to sound creation and coding. In particular, it explores the complex art of transmitting information. It is led by Clara Ries, a sound designer, in partnership with Les Modernes bookshop.
8 April 2026 at 2 pm at the Montluc prison
This tour offers an opportunity to discover the significant work carried out in recent years to improve the security, preservation and sharing of the site’s history. In particular, it includes a visit to the temporary exhibition ‘Within these walls, a project for history’ and the photographs by Bertrand Pichène.