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.
Until 31 August 2023 at the Musée de la Résistance in Limoges
Spirou, a well-known character in Belgian comics, is plunged into the terrible period of the occupation. The daily life of the Brussels teenager during the Second World War is examined in the work of Emile Bravo. His motivations and doubts in the face of the Nazi war machine, and the gradual loss of the young man’s naivety and character in the face of anti-Jewish discrimination and other violence.
https://www.facebook.com/museeresistancelimoges/
Until 12 March 2023 at the Archives départementales du Cher, rue Jean-Marie Heurtault de Lamerville, 18000 Bourges
This exhibition highlights the situation of the thousands of inhabitants of Alsace-Moselle, including hundreds of Jews, who found refuge in the Cher. When arrests took place in the occupied zone, some tried to cross the demarcation line. Many were arrested and executed. Archival documents allow this exhibition to present the paths of these individuals in the underground.
Until 8 January 2024 at the Marc Chagall National Museum
Throughout the year 2023, events will be presented to mark the 50th anniversary of the museum’s birth, on 7 July 1973. The moment when the house desired by the artist welcomed his work dedicated to the cycle of the “Biblical Message”. With its universal message, values and colours. A varied programme is proposed, culminating as it should on the weekend of 7 July 2023.
February 23, 2023 at the Medem Centre
This workshop is led by Salomon Bielasiak by ZOOMTM and follows the one held in January. He will present and translate about twenty Yiddish expressions. These expressions are accompanied by klezmer music and traditional Yiddish songs. The accompaniment is provided by professional singers and musicians.
https://www.centre-medem.org/recevoir-le-programme
March 10 at the House of Yiddish Culture – Medem Library
This evening proposed by Annick Prime Margules welcomes Michel Fisbein and Lionel Miller to share, in French and Yiddish, classic jokes and other zygomatic boosters. With, in particular, a classic sketch by Dzigan and Szumacher that every record player owner enjoyed after the war in memory of distant ancestors.
Until 23 July 2023 at the mahJ
150 photographs, archive documents and children’s drawings made by the residents of this colony which served as a refuge for them during the Second World War are presented in this exhibition. Individual drawings, but also complete stories. 105 Jewish children lived there from 1943 to 1944. 44 of these children and 7 animators were rounded up by the Nazis. The drawings were collected by the former director Sabine Zlatin. The exhibition is presented in partnership with the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Maison d’Izieu.
With the Cercle Vladimir Medem and the Cercle Bernard Lazare.
These visits are organised from the Cercle Bernard Lazare. They allow participants to visit this place located in Médan, recently enlarged with the space dedicated to Dreyfus, in order to discover the link between these two men and their fights.