Until September 30, 2022 at the Saphir Gallery
As part of the European Days of Jewish Culture, the Saphir Gallery continues this exhibition honoring humanism and resistance in art in the face of the tragedy of the world and war. This gallery, located literally a stone’s throw from the mahJ, is a well-known and long-standing venue for the sharing of Jewish culture. This spirit is reflected again in this exhibition, extending Stefan Zweig’s dream of a just and generous Europe.
https://www.galeriesaphir.com/
Through January 9, 2023 at the National Museum Marc Chagall
Following the donation of seven rare bibliophilic works by Bella and Meret Meyer to the Chagall Museum, the exhibition presents the link between Chagall and writing. In particular, the hundred or so books he illustrated. The link between drawing and words in his work is highlighted, as well as his relationship with the world of publishing and printing. Among the lesser-known works on display, Lettres d’hivernage, created from a collection of poems by Léopold Sédar Senghor.
https://musees-nationaux-alpesmaritimes.fr/chagall/type-evenement/exposition-en-cours
December 9, 2022 at the Deportations Memorial
The Deportations Memorial is inaugurating two new memorial and artistic creations on the Resistance to the Nazi occupiers and the Vichy government, as well as to the hell of the concentration camp system: an “Exhibition Resistance fighters, a forgotten generation”, and an immersive audiovisual artistic creation, “Resist”. To act of resistance as early as 1940 when one is 20 years old and to accept to take all the risks at the risk of one’s life invite us to question ourselves on their motivation, their attitude in front of the danger, the physical and moral sufferings. These two memorial and artistic productions were conceived from a photographic and audiovisual series imagined and realized in 2011 by Sand Arty.
https://musees.marseille.fr/memorial-des-deportations-0
October 20, 2022
Soviet Yiddish literature had a great influence in the world, far beyond the communist circles. Its brutal suppression in 1948 became known, in stages, only after Stalin’s death in 1953. This was the beginning of the long decline of Communist influence in Jewish circles. The historian Philippe Boukara returns during this conference to the repercussions in France of the Soviet crimes.
Maison de la culture yiddish
29 rue du Château d’Eau, 75010 Paris
From September 28, 2022 to January 16, 2023 au Musée de l’Orangerie
The figurative painter Sam Szafran (1934-2019) developed his work far from the art world and its fads, in the seclusion of the studio. This choice was motivated by his painful childhood in a family of Polish-Jewish origin during the Holocaust. A fan of solitude, he focuses on his own existence and his inner states to give birth to his favorite themes. Three years after the artist’s death, the Musée de l’Orangerie, in the first exhibition organized by a French museum in two decades, highlights his few existential subjects – workshops, staircases and foliage – which all have his immediate environment in common.
https://www.musee-orangerie.fr/fr/agenda/expositions
Until November 7, 2022 au Mémorial de la Shoah
In the spring of 1967, the magazine Le Nouveau Candide published the first pages of La Grande Rafle du Vel d’Hiv, 16 juillet 1942 by Claude Lévy and Paul Tillard (Robert Laffont). To illustrate this five-part series, the editorial staff called on a young 29-year-old cartoonist, Jean Cabut, known as Cabu.
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Vel d’Hiv roundup, Véronique Cabut, his wife, and the Shoah Memorial propose to rediscover these drawings never exhibited since their publication. This exhibition is also a tribute to a brilliant and popular cartoonist who was one of the twelve victims of the January 7, 2015 jihadist attack on the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo.
https://billetterie.memorialdelashoah.org/fr/evenement/cabu-dessins-de-la-rafle-du-vel-dhiv
From October 13, 2022 to March 5, 2023 at the mahJ
This exhibition of 180 photographs, some of which are unpublished, highlights the work of the artist in his journalistic activity as well as his personal life during the Occupation. We follow his installation in Paris in 1936, the capital of fashion, his internment in French camps and his revelation to the general public and his post-war American success. We also walk along his artistic evolution, from his Dadaist beginnings to his political photomontages to his innovations in photography and in the laboratory.
https://mahj.org/fr/programme/l-agenda-du-mahj
September 15, 2022 at the AIU
This conference is organized by the Library of the Alliance Israélite Universelle. Jean-Claude Kuperminc, Director of the Library and Archives, will discuss the book with author Meredith L. Scott. She will present the French translation of her book dedicated to Salomon Grumbach. This Alsatian Jew, journalist and socialist politician was one of the most important advocates for refugees in Europe between the wars. During the first months of the Second World War, nearly a thousand refugees and asylum seekers detained in French internment camps sought his help.
https://www.aiu.org/fr/bibliotheque
September 11th at the ACJ
On the occasion of the publication of her book “Les Exportés”, journalist Sonia Devillers looks back on the brutal departure of her Jewish family from Romania. A book that retraces the path of this forced exile, the conditions and actors, as well as all the dark sides of the authorities in place.
September 19, 2022 at the CCJC Neuilly-sur-Seine
This documentary, produced by Gilles Samama, written by Sonia Fellous and directed by Ruggero Gabbai, is about the history and life of the Jewish community of Tunisia until its departure for France and its new life in Paris. Through a series of testimonies and archival research, the film traces the often shattered and moving destinies of three generations of Tunisian Jews.
https://https://ccjc-neuilly.com/ccjc-neuilly.com/
March 27 – December 22, 2022 at the Drancy Memorial
Treasures of the families who entrusted them to the Memorial, these letters are the moving testimony of the humanity behind the names and numbers. Written at the Vel d’Hiv, Drancy, Loiret and other internment camps, these letters return, 80 years later, to these places of memory, to bear witness, through their authors, to the Holocaust in France. If some letters try to obtain a release from the administrative authorities or through relatives, others are marked by a feeling of farewell, as the departure approaches. After the war, the administrative letter will make its return, under the pen of the survivors who will try to find the trace of their missing family members.
September 17 and 18, 2022
Throughout the afternoon, meet the mediators of the Albert-Kahn departmental museum for moments of historical and botanical exchanges! The new permanent exhibition of the museum is spread over the 4 hectares of the former property of the philanthropist banker, mixing exhibition space and landscape scenes. You can visit the Japanese village, its various gardens and participate in the participatory science project.
https://albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/la-programmation/evenements
From September 4 to December 18, 2022 at the Résistance Center of Lyon
Through the 1st and 2nd arrondissements, this tour follows in the footsteps of Jean Moulin. Each stage provides an opportunity to explain his mission and to present the Resistance fighters who acted alongside him… without forgetting the circumstances and consequences of his arrest on June 21, 1943, in Caluire. (Re)discover this period in Lyon’s history through thematic routes in the city.
https://www.chrd.lyon.fr/agenda
January – February 2023 at the European University Institute Rachi
In partnership with the Compagnie Théâtre’âme, the Médiathèque Jacques Chirac and the Théâtre de la Madeleine, the European University Institute Rachi proposes a series of meetings. The first will take place on January 12 with the presentation of excerpts from “Reflections on the Jewish Question – A Cabaret” followed by a discussion with Paul Gradvohl and Gérard Rabinovitch. This play represents a salutary antidote to the contemporary anti-Semitic climate. On February 7, author Aurélie Barjonnet will give a lecture on L’ère des non-témoins. The literature of the “grandchildren of the Shoah,” examining how writers who did not live through the Shoah tell the story of the event.
September 11th, 2022 at the Judeo-Alsatian Museum
Within the framework of the mini festival of Jewish music, the Intercommunal Tourist Office proposes a musical conference at the Judeo-Alsatian Museum. It will be given by Pierre Frath, and will present the history of Jewish languages in the world. The lecture will be accompanied by the songs of Madeleine Wolf. Her taste for singing comes from her great-grandmother and her maternal Jewish grandmother who lived in Berlin between the two world wars.
https://www.museejudeoalsacien.fr/
Until March 19, 2023 at the Struthof
This exhibition focuses on the links between the medical faculty of the Reichsuniversität Straßburg and the Natzweiler concentration camp. Deportations, medical experiments and murders have been documented before. The recent work of the Historical Commission on the Medical Faculty of the Reichsuniversität Straßburg has shed light on the daily interactions and the way in which this camp was integrated into the Nazi system of health care and racial hygiene.
From November 8 to December 13, 2022 at the University Institute of Jewish Studies Elie Wiesel
Sonia Fellous, through six face-to-face and zoomed-in sessions, presents the major periods of Jewish art. Expressions of grandeur, fear and hope. By examining not only artistic but also civilizational issues of memory and transmission. The presentation of the courses is accompanied by a quotation from Elie Faure: “Greece had discovered its soul in the form, Israel had tried to impose its soul on the form. The inescapable historian indeed questioned the complicated relationship of Judaism to art at the time when it was gaining its credentials in Greece.
http://www.instituteliewiesel.com/
Until December 31, 2022 at the Cité Internationale de la BD et de l’Image
Designed in partnership with Editions Le Lombard, the exhibition reconstructs the emblematic places of the series “Children of the Resistance”, intended for youth. Whether it is the streets of the fictional village Pontain l’Ecluse, Eusèbe’s dining room, the village classroom or the attic where the teenagers meet to draw up their plans. To accompany the exhibition, audio and text documents shed light on the main themes of the Second World War: the daily occupation, the repression of Jews and opponents, the Collaboration and the Resistance.
http://www.citebd.org/
Until December 31, 2022 at the Caen Memorial
The Caen Memorial presents an exhibition on the places linked to the Shoah. At the end of the last century, Michael Kenna undertook to photograph these places dedicated to organized death. Whether they were transit camps, concentration camps or extermination camps. A fight against oblivion and the contribution of a truth of the horror while the last witnesses having survived this horror leave us.
Until October 29, 2022 at the Résistance Museum of Toulouse
Josephine Baker, who will be inducted into the Pantheon in November 2021, embodied France’s values in the fight against hatred and discrimination. Whether it was her commitment to the Resistance or her activism in the United States in favor of ending racial discrimination. The exhibition at the Museum of the Resistance follows her biographical journey from the stage to the military uniform, with the aim of sharing her story and her courage with the public, especially young people.
http://musee-resistance.haute-garonne.fr/fr/index.html
From September 12 to December 5, 2022 at the IECJ
Sixteen lectures will be given as part of the Master’s degree in Hebrew – Jewish Studies by the Interuniversity Institute of Jewish Studies and Culture (IECJ). The lectures will take place over eight days and will be organized by Sophie Nezri-Dufour. Among the themes addressed during this day: “The beyond of the religious as a basis for interreligious dialogue in Franz Rosenzweig’s work”, “The presence of Jews in the Sahara”, “Maghrebi Jews in Berber oral literature”, “Esthers Novel from Crescas to Caylar: a text for women? »