Until April 17th, 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Frankfurt
This exhibition is dedicated to four women artists from Frankfurt who have been forgotten over time: Erna Pinner, Rosy Lilienfeld, Amalie Seckbach and Ruth Cahn. In the Roaring Twenties, daring often accompanied madness, allowing the invisible majority of women to triumph on stage, on the big screen and to make a small place for themselves in museums. For until 1919, they were forbidden to enter the Academy of Fine Arts. These four were pioneers in Frankfurt, competing with their male colleagues for artistic appreciation and recognition. However, with the coming to power of the Nazis, their careers came to a halt, their works ostracised and their persons persecuted as Jews. Thus, the exhibition sheds light on their lives and works. And it takes us back to those intriguing 1920s when everything seemed possible, in a positive sense. With the thriving cultural scene in Frankfurt, which also made a name for itself in sociology and philosophy at that time with its school.
https://www.juedischesmuseum.de/en/visit/detail/back-into-the-light-english-tour0/
At the Danish Jewish Museum
October 1943, the courage of a people, the courage of a king. A whole population, disregarding social, economic and cultural affiliations to come to the aid of their Jewish compatriots. How a small country deceived the powerful Germany to save the vast majority of Danish Jews. A special exhibition at the Danish Jewish Museum is dedicated to this historical event. But also the connection of Danish Jews to their country for two hundred years. Objects from these different periods are presented, highlighted by the artistic works of Kristan Bay Kirk.
https://jewmus.dk/en/udstilling
Until January 15th, 2023 at the Bozar
2024 will be the year… of the great retrospective dedicated to Chantal Akerman in Brussels. As a first act, the Bozar Museum is presenting an installation that was not very popular with the public before, which the Belgian director set up in 1998: Selfportrait/Autobiography: A Work In Progress. It is presented through 6 to 8 monitors and contains images from several films from different periods: Hôtel Monterey (1972), Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce à 1080 Bruxelles (1975), Toute une nuit (1982) and D’Est (1993). Scenes of ‘everyday life’ as it rarely appears to us or as we refuse to see it, such as the majestic Delphine Seyrig, whose schedule and emotions are turned upside down. Strong women in front of and behind the camera, guiding this piano suspended in the air above our lives for us…
https://www.bozar.be/fr/calendrier/chantal-akerman
Until February 26th, 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Augsburg
This exhibition traces the diversity of Jewish life in Ukraine over the last hundred years. From the shtetl life of the 1920s and the intercultural encounters, shaken by the political events of the time, to the massacres during the Shoah and the cultural and political challenges of the Soviet era, to the present war. Indeed, the Jewish community is largely made up of people from the Ukraine. The diversity of Ukrainian Jewish life and its connection to Germany in general and Augsburg in particular is therefore highlighted. The exhibition was created with the help of Ukrainian researchers Daria Reznyk and Andrii Shestaliuk.
https://jmaugsburg.de/en/exhibitions/voices/
Until April 10th, 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Amsterdam
This exhibition highlights the friendship between two women, Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) and Leonie Snatager (1918-2013), at a time of difficult choices during the Second World War. The texts of Etty Hillesum, who was murdered in Auschwitz, have met with great literary success. A biography of the author by Judith Koelemeijer was recently published in the Netherlands. This book presents previously unpublished documents, including the friendship between Etty and Leonie. This friendship is reflected in the diaries of both women, written on the advice of their shrink Julius Spier, whom they consulted during the war. Leonie went into hiding and survived the war. When she died, her family discovered her texts and archives, as well as numerous editions of Etty’s work. Her son will donate them to the museum in order to allow the public to discover this history and their complex and moving story.
https://jck.nl/en/tentoonstelling/etty-leonie
Until 31 December 2022
In a dozen panels hung on the gates of Francis Lemarque Square, the exhibition presents the faces and names of children deported from the 11th arrondissement, the one most affected by the Vel d’Hiv round-up after the 20th. The exhibition is part of a partnership between the Association of Sons and Daughters of the Deported Jews of France and the Town Hall of the 11th arrondissement of Paris. The exhibition, coordinated by the historian Sabine Zeitoun, is accompanied by a historical contextualisation and maps of the places of arrest produced by the historian Jean-Luc Pinol.
Square Francis Lemarque, 90 rue de la Roquette, 75011 Paris
Until 2 January 2023 at the Centre Pompidou
A hundred or so works by Gérard Garouste welcome you to the Centre Pompidou, bearing witness to the creative richness and diversity of his inspirations, particularly biblical and sexual. This marvellous contemporary artistic merry-go-round, illustrated by this work where, from ten or so points of view, you can see part of the work through a telescope, not knowing where Garouste’s dream begins and our reality ends.
https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/programme/agenda/evenement/1c7rCxA
Until 15 May 2023
Like the other museums that have been assigned MNR items, the museums of the City of Strasbourg are carrying out research to identify the owners of these works, with a view, if necessary, to returning them to their rightful owners. Many of the works stolen by the German occupiers have not yet been returned to their owners who were looted during the war. This research is conducted in conjunction with the Ministry of Culture. On the website, you will find details of this process.
Galerie Heitz / Palais Rohan, 2 place du château 67000 Strasbourg France
https://www.musees.strasbourg.eu/mnr-musees-nationaux-de-recuperation?
From 17 September 2022 to 21 January 2023 at La Galerie, Noisy-Le-Sec
A generation’s belated but sincere recognition of this great actress and inventor. From the exhibition dedicated to her at the Jewish Museum in Vienna to the retrospective in November 2022 at the Cinémathèque, we (re)discover one of those stars who embodied beauty and above all intelligence on the big screens of the post-war years. But he also made a significant commitment to the war effort by developing computer processes. His works and his influence will be presented in this exhibition.
La Galerie, 1 rue Jean Jaurès 93000 Noisy-le-Sec
https://lagalerie-cac-noisylesec.fr/hedy-lamarr-the-strange-woman/
12 November 2022 at 15:30 at the Medem Centre
This literary meeting around Henri Minczeles’ book on the history of the Bund. A rich and diverse history according to generations and countries, Poland, Russia, but also France. The influence of this workers’ movement, its emancipatory struggles and its conflicts with other political movements. An event in the presence of Constance Paris de Bollardière, author of the preface to the book and a specialist in the Bund movement and the survivors of the Shoah, as well as Cédric Biagini, who runs the L’échappée publishing house, where the book has been republished.
https://www.centre-medem.org/agenda-novembre-decembre-2022
Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 7:30 pm at the House of Yiddish Culture
If a consensual definition of Jewish humour is difficult to find, the same is true for one of its major influences, Yiddish humour. An anthology published by Nadia Déhan-Rotschild (Bibliothèque Medem) provides an insight into the scope of Yiddish humour. 104 drawings and 262 texts are included in this bilingual French-Yiddish anthology. During this evening of presentation, these works will be read and put into space by the actors of the Troïm-teater and the animators of the House of Yiddish Culture.
From 9 December 2022 to 30 August 2023 at the Shoah Memorial
Four generations have travelled far and wide since childhood thanks to the magazines Tintin and Spirou and all their characters, starting with those whose names the magazines bear. Often, these comics were not only aimed at a child audience, or tried to raise their awareness. Émile Bravo, in his fourth and last volume of his series “L’Espoir malgré tout”, published on 20 May 2022 by Dupuis, allows for a surprising encounter. That between the bellboy Spirou and Felix Nussbaum, a German painter murdered in Auschwitz. An imaginary meeting that is not so surprising when one knows that Jean Doisy, the editor of Spirou magazine, directed a network of Resistance fighters during the war. In this comic strip, Bravo presents the dangers of that time and the choices made by institutions and individuals in the face of them.
https://billetterie.memorialdelashoah.org/fr/evenement/spirou-dans-la-tourmente-de-la-shoah
Thursday 24 November 2022 at 6pm at the ACJ
As part of the “Migrant’ scène” festival, Florence Miailhe’s animated film will be screened. The film presents the painful passage from childhood to adolescence for Kyona and Adriel, wishing to escape the dangers present in their country to find a land of asylum. On the roads of exile, the two children make astonishing real and/or imaginary encounters that will make this crossing a journey of initiation.
Until 31 December 2022 at the Musée départemental Albert Kahn
Although photography and cinema became the most important art forms at the beginning of the 20th century, Albert Kahn understood very early on the revolution that these arts would bring. In 1908-1909, he undertook a voyage around the world and launched the project of visual documentation of the five continents. These Archives of the Planet are exhibited today at the Gardens, showing 4000 stereoscopic plates and 2000 metres of film. Thanks in particular to Albert Dutertre, whom Albert Kahn recruited to document the journey.
Until March 2023 at the Gaon Museum in Vilna
On 24 October 2022, the Gaon Jewish History Museum in Vilna was honoured to welcome Queen Mathilde of Belgium, the First Lady of Lithuania, Diana Nausėdienė, and the Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region, Rudi Vervoort. Welcomed on site by the Lithuanian Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys, they signed a cooperation agreement between the museums of the two states. The aim was to improve academic and historical cooperation. The meeting officially opened the exhibition dedicated to the artist Kopel Simelovitz from the Lithuanian town of Šeduva. He had taken refuge in Belgium. He was arrested during the Holocaust, deported and murdered in Auschwitz in 1943. The documentary « The Paper Brigade » by director Diane Perelsztejn will also be screened.
10-20 November 2022
A large number of films are being screened at this year’s UK Jewish Film Festival. 74 films in all, in cinemas across the UK. A way to explore many Israeli and Jewish themes through the prism of the seventh art. With works such as Farewell Mr Haffmann, Charlotte, America, Equilibrium, What Has Changed or Who’s Afraid of Jewish Humor? Yes, who is afraid of Jewish humour? Or cinema, for that matter, which allows us to get to know each other better…
From 10 to 12 March 2023 in Youlgrave
All North! Klezmer music, born out of the deep and distant celebrations of Eastern Europe, continues its long road of re-enchantment of a contemporary world. After its successes in Western Europe and North America, it is now travelling to the north of England, on the occasion of the Kleznorth Festival, created in 2009 by Sue Cooper, Adrian Dobson and Judith Plowman. A success that has continued and this year welcomes artists with long experience of sharing, such as Ian Stern, Michael Alpert, Aisha Walker, Alan Zinober, Fiona Frank, Keith Lander and Phil Tomlinson.
From 22 to 27 November 2022 at Cinerama Empire, Ciné 17 and Cinéma Bio
A surprising choice is proposed during this new edition, accentuating the feminine look of many themes. Screenings of European and Israeli films. With notably « Karaoke » by Moshe Rosenthal as the opening film, in the presence of the main actor Sasson Gabay, but also « Tu choisiras la vie » by Stéphane Freiss. The great French actor, behind the camera this time, will also be present to talk to the public. Other films include « One more story » by Guri Alfi, « Cinema Sabaya » by Orit Fouks Rotem, « The Forger » by Maggie Peren and « Perfect Strangers » by Lior Ashkenazi, also usually in front of the camera. Not to mention a documentary on the 50th anniversary of « Fiddler on the Roof » !
https://www.gil.ch/evenement/festival-international-du-film-des-cultures-juives-de-geneve
19 November 2022 at the Salle du Lignon
The singer Keren Ann, whose cultures of origin and creations have been associated with Europe as well as Israel, has long distinguished herself on stage, on record but also when her music becomes one of the actors of films, operas and plays. She joins the Debussy Quartet, known for its classical repertoire as well as its highly original contemporary collaborations. Together, they continue to explore different musical genres. Keren Ann’s repertoire is thus revisited, with original arrangements conceived by the singer and other artists such as Maxim Moston and Gabriel Kahane for an unforgettable evening.
https://www.comisra.ch/evenements/concert-keren-ann-quatuor-debussy-offre-speciale
Until 10 April 2023 at the Freud Museum
From the meeting between Freud and André Breton to the influence of psychoanalysis on the work of Salvador Dali, this exhibition explores the links between psychoanalysis and surrealism. Around one hundred works from the Klewan collection by some fifty artists, as well as numerous writings. Their links, but also their differences, are explored throughout the exhibition. Among the works presented are those of Herbert Bayer, Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Salvador Dalí, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Conroy Maddox, André Masson, Meret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Savinio, Toyen (Marie Čermínová) and Dorothea Tanning.
https://www.freud-museum.at/en/surreal-imagining-new-realities
17 November 2022 at the Jewish Museum of London
A meeting of times and genres on the London stage. What could be more surprising than to see Shakespeare performed in Yiddish? Actors, directors and authors allow Yiddish to be in tune with the great ancients but also with the concerns of the newcomers of the 20th century. All the emotions of this turning point in English Jewish history are brought together, with period Yiddish objects and posters held at the Jewish Museum.
https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/event/secrets-of-the-london-yiddish-stage
15 December 2022 in the Maisel Synagogue
The Maisel Synagogue is used to presenting classical concerts, but this evening it will host a concert of baroque music. On stage the violinist Hana Fleková is accompanied by the theorbist Jan Krejči and the violinist Lenka Torgersen. Together they perform works by 17th-century transalpine musicians inspired by Italian virtuoso music. A concert presented with the support of the German Embassy in the Czech Republic.
https://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/program-and-education/events/1856/
November 6, 2022 at the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
The Institute celebrates its 75th anniversary with a three-part series, co-hosted with the Ghetto Fighters’ House. The series will look at the efforts of Emanuel Ringelblum and other prisoners of the Warsaw Ghetto during the war to keep records of the Holocaust. Thus, 35,000 documents in Yiddish, German, Polish and Hebrew were hidden: posters, photos, drawings, identity cards, school notebooks, ration tickets… Archives found after the war between 1946 and 1950. The event will provide an opportunity to learn more about the people who undertook this fabulous process and its importance for researchers and the general public.
https://www.jhi.pl/en/events/let-the-world-read-and-know-the-oneg-shabbat-archives,1418
Until 16 April 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Galicia
Prepared together with the Jewish Museum in Vienna, this exhibition highlights the fascinating life of the iconic Helena Rubinstein (1872-1965). This is on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of her birth. Born in Podgorze, near Krakow, she was influenced by her mother’s upbringing of her and her seven sisters, especially in the use of beauty products. This is how she launched her empire in Australia, then in Europe, mainly in London and Paris. Then to the United States, where she enjoyed her greatest success. The exhibition features photos of Rubinstein in Krakow, various old beauty products, dresses, and a 1929 advertisement with her voice. The exhibition is organised with the support of the Krakow City Council.
Until 5 February 2023 at MEIS
The exhibition Sotto lo stesso cielo (Under the Same Sky), curated by Amedeo Spagnoletto and Sharon Reichel, allows the public to learn more about the festival of Sukkot and appreciate its message of union under the same sky. Celebrating the survival of the Jewish people in the desert, the festival is also an encounter with nature and the connection to its elements and rhythm of life. Religious, artistic and ecological perceptions are shared, mainly around the use and respect of water. 10 wooden panels with biblical scenes will be shown. They were created for a Venetian soukka at the turn of the 18th and 19th century.
This exhibition is organised by the European Centre for Judaism, in partnership with the ANU Museum in Tel Aviv and the Institute for Marrano Research. It presents the astonishing and very diverse journey of the Jews since the Inquisition. But also the efforts made by the Marranos to keep a Jewish presence in their homes, creating habits over time when the objects and witnesses of those times were no longer present. Like these descendants praying to a mysterious Saint Esther, a habit of kissing the corner of the door without knowing why… The exhibition also allows visitors to (re)discover the Jewish history of Spain since Roman times and the glory of the Andalusian Golden Age, the participation of the Jews in the economic and cultural development of Spain and other great pages of history.
European Jewish Center, place de Jérusalem, 75017 Paris
https://cejparis.com/expo-histoire-des-sefarades-des-conversos-et-de-leurs-descendants/
Until November 6, 2022 at the Swiss National Museum
The exhibition traces the origin of the publication of Anne Frank’s famous book. Motivated by the desire to share the story of his murdered daughter, the family hidden in Holland, and the other family members killed during the Holocaust, Otto Frank settled in the city of Basel after the war. From there he began to bring to light the writings of his daughter Anne in a message of hope for humanity.
https://www.nationalmuseum.ch/
Until the end of 2023 at the Swiss Jewish Museum
Numerous objects are on display at the Swiss Jewish Museum to introduce the public to Jewish culture. Objects from many eras, such as a ring from Antiquity, manuscripts from the Middle Ages, books from modern times, household objects from the 19th century, political documents relating to the struggle for equal rights or to Zionist congresses, or things that belonged to refugees during the war or to contemporary Jewish Swiss citizens… All these objects trace the country’s strong and ancient link with Judaism.
At the Jewish Museum Stockholm
The Jewish Museum in Stockholm was born out of a desire to preserve the traces of Jewish life after the Holocaust. In search of personal stories and objects illustrating Swedish Jewish life. This exhibition focuses on the approach to the subject of the Shoah, especially today. Among the objects presented are a theatrical program, a flag from the Hechalutz movement, children’s newspapers and gifts given to doctors who treated Holocaust survivors.
https://judiskamuseet.se/the-dog-with-a-red-silk-ribbon-from-memory-to-cultural-heritage/?lang=en
Until January 8, 2024 at the Polin Museum
This exhibition, organized by Barbara Engelking, Zuzanna Schnepf-Kołacz, and Agata Polak for the Polin Museum in coordination with the Holocaust Research Center, commemorates 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. When its prisoners took up arms against the Nazis and resisted their assaults for weeks. It will show the daily life in the bunkers, the anguish and testimonies of solidarity. But it will also deal with the contemporary question of our behavior in the face of the danger of death and our ability to resist evil. With testimonies of survivors.