6 April 2025, at 13:45
On this guided tour, the Maison de la Culture Juive, in partnership with the CCLJ, traces the history of Jewish life in Brussels. From the interwar period, with the arrival of Eastern European Jews in its working-class districts, to the way in which the city faced up to Nazi policies during the Shoah, with its courageous acts of resistance, particularly by certain official bodies, and those that were much less so.
Bruxelles la Juive / résistance et collaboration – CCLJ
Until 31 December 2025
Since January, many venues, not just the Vienna Jewish Museum, have been hosting a series of events to celebrate its anniversary. In 1895, the museum became the first Jewish museum in the world. Age does not show on the face of its exhibitions and activities, as the museum remains very active and frequently renews its presentations.
Exhibition Detail | Jüdisches Museum Wien
27 March 2025, 6pm at the Manchester Jewish Museum
This event is an opportunity to talk with the leading researcher in Jewish studies. He will share his background and what motivated him to devote himself to this field. In particular, the challenges he faced in his approach to Judaism, having been born into a Protestant family in Northern Ireland. And how he helped to establish this field of study in British universities. He will also present the evolution of British Jewish life, particularly in Manchester.
Manchester Jewish Museum — Museum Evening Talks: Professor Philip Alexander in Conversation
Until 11 July 2025
In partnership with Queen Mary University of London, the Jewish Museum London has been putting a series of amazing podcasts online since January 2025, enabling visitors to rediscover the sounds and flavours of London’s Yiddish popular culture at the turn of the 20th century. One shared along stories, texts and songs, focusing on the period between the 1880s and 1950s. A journey guided by historians Nadia Valman and Vivi Lachs, with the participation of Michael Rosen, Miriam Margolyes, Alan Dein and David Schneider.
Pitch Up: The Cockney Yiddish Podcast – The Jewish Museum London
25 May 2025, 12.30pm at King’s Cross
The JMI Youth Big Band, a group of young jazz artists, takes to the stage under the baton of Sam Eastmond, a celebrated conductor who has worked with John Zorn among others. Founder of the Spike Orchestra, this trumpeter and composer has long been a talented blender of jazz, klezmer, rock and other sounds, since the release of the album Ghetto in 2014. During this concert, the artists will be playing some of his previously unreleased works.
JMI Youth Big Band Live at Jamboree – Jewish Music Institute
23 March 2025, 11am at the Munich Jewish Museum
As part of the International Weeks Against Racism 2025, the museum is organising a workshop to raise awareness of the history of Munich’s Jews. The workshop will use objects from the exhibition as well as textual and photographic sources. In particular, the difficult questions of history will be raised, reflecting on the issues, contexts and individual histories. Around these questions, the participants actively shape the workshop and draw up individual CVs.
Musée juif de Munich – Détails
From 21 March to 16 November 2025
A face shattered by history facing a mirror shattered by the inspiring and creative force of that face… The Jewish Museum Frankfurt is presenting an exhibition on the artist Léo Maillet (1902-1990). Born Leopold Meyer in Frankfurt, where he began his studies before having to provide for his family’s material needs, he left Germany after the Nazis took power. Living in France as a photographer, he escaped again and lived under a false identity before finding refuge in Switzerland in 1944. The exhibition presents the self-portraits created by Léo Maillet during his exile that escaped destruction by the Nazis.
Léo Maillet: The Broken Mirror – Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt
24 March 2025, 5pm at the Jewish Museum Berlin
The National Library of Israel is lending 15 drawings by Kafka from its archives to the Jewish Museum Berlin. To mark the occasion, Stefan Litt, a Kafka expert working at the library, will give a tour of these archives. He will be accompanied by the curator Shelley Harten, with whom they will discuss Kafka’s work and the organisation of this exhibition.
Kafka visiting from Jerusalem | Jewish Museum Berlin
On 20 March, at 7pm, the iconic rue des Rosiers café will be hosting a concert-reading entitled ‘Musical trip in a Yiddish world’, in which extracts from the book The Yiddish World will be read by its author Olivier Peyroux, accompanied by the Yiddish songs of Sisterke (Alina Baba and Lucia Todoran). On 25 March, at 6.30pm, Wladimir Gutovski, Sylvie Adler and Isy Morgensztern host a discussion entitled ‘Benny Lévy, Texts for the People’.
Le programme du Café des Psaumes
From 24 May to 22 September 2025
Young or old, Marc Chagall kept the same naive and curious eye, questioning himself and eager to learn about and create new artistic paths. After the war, he experimented with stained glass, as shown by his works from Jerusalem to Metz, tapestry, ceramics and mosaics. This was particularly true in sunny Vence when he returned to France in 1949. Between 1958 and 1986, Chagall created fourteen mosaics in the south of France (Nice, Vence, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Les-Arcs-sur-Argens), the United States (Chicago and Washington), Israel (Jerusalem) and Switzerland.
De verre et de pierre. Chagall en mosaïque | Musée National Marc Chagall
16 March 2025 at the Centre Edmond Fleg
This astonishing musical encounter featuring Benyamin Greilsammer on harpsichord and Ilan Greilsammer reading texts takes the audience back to the time of the Marranos to follow this astonishing Duarte family and discover the issues and complexities of an era.
18 May 2025 at the Espace Rachi – Guy de Rothschild
80 years after Anne Frank was murdered during the Holocaust, the Shiru Shir choir is paying musical tribute to her with ‘Annelies’, an oratorio composed in 2005 by James Whitbourn based on extracts from her famous diary. Under the direction of Laurence Temime, 50 choristers, soloist Juliana Sula and an instrumental quartet will be on hand that evening to share a moving performance with the audience.
Centre d’Art et de Culture Juive – Annelies – Centre d’Art et de Culture Juive
Until 30 June 2025 at the Shoah Memorial
To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camps, the Shoah Memorial and leading directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano are paying tribute to the last survivors. This is done through a series of five never-before-seen video vignettes devoted to survivors of the camps. Larissa Cain, Judith Elkán, Ginette Kolinka, Yvette Lévy and Léon Placek share their experiences of anti-Semitic persecution and deportation. A duty of remembrance and transmission for young people. The exhibition is coordinated by Clara Lainé.
Mémorial de la Shoah | Boutique en ligne
10 April 2025, 7.30pm at the House of Yiddish Culture
In the film L’Armée du Crime, one of the young resistance fighters calls out to his friend to join him: ‘Hey, Krasu!’ Henri Krasucki was a great resistance fighter before becoming the emblematic trade union leader of the 1980s. This commitment to working-class Jews was very present throughout the twentieth century on both sides of the Atlantic, men and women, such as Emma Goldman. At this conference, the great historian Philippe Boukara presents the trade union struggle of Jewish workers in search of a concrete improvement in living conditions.
From 13 March to 31 August 2025 at the mahJ
More than 250 archive documents, photographs, film extracts, and some sixty works of art are brought together for this extraordinary exhibition devoted to Alfred Dreyfus. This is 20 years after the first exhibition dedicated to him at this very venue, surrounding his statue in the courtyard. A new look at the ‘Affair’, with the aim of better understanding the historical stakes of an era and one man’s fight for truth and dignity. Among the works on display are those by Jacques-Émile Blanche, Gustave Caillebotte, Eugène Carrière, Émile Gallé, Maximilien Luce, Camille Pissarro, Félix Vallotton and Édouard Vuillard.
Alfred Dreyfus. Vérité et justice | Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme
16 March 2025, 3pm at mahJ
DJ Sharouh mixes the sounds of different generations from the many shores of the Mediterranean and beyond with great enthusiasm and talent. She was a particular hit at the Iranian night at La Bellevilloise organised by the Sacré Sound Festival in 2024. For Purim, she gets the audience up and dancing to the treasures of Judeo-Arab music! On the programme: music, fancy dress, dance… and a narration of the Book of Esther for the little ones by actor Michael Zindel, who made his name in Noé Debré’s film The Last Jew…
An evening in partnership with the Café des Psaumes and the Œuvre de secours aux enfants.
Bal de Pourim 2025. « Ya Hasra ! » | Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme
3 June 2025, 8.30pm at La Bellevilloise
One year after its fabulous and surprising Iranian evening at La Bellevilloise, mixing lyrical and pop songs and ending with a DJ set, the Sacré Sound Festival returns to the stage of this festive hotspot in eastern Paris. This time it will be headlined by Neta Elkayam, an Israeli-Moroccan artist who blends Jewish music from North Africa with jazz, Amazigh and Andalusian sounds. She performs in a duet with her husband, musician and video artist Amit Hai Cohen. Winner of the Moroccan TMM Trophy in 2022 for promoting the Moroccan Jewish voice, she has collaborated with artists such as Karim Ziad and Maurice El Médiouni.
PROGRAMMATION | SACRÉ SOUND FESTIVAL
21 May 2025, 8.30pm at JEM Copernic
Like the klezmer artists of Eastern Europe and the black American artists of the Southern States, music enables Kurdish artists to confront the painful pages of history and to fight for the sharing of a culture. Kurdish music, like its people, is shared in its diversity across the territory where this population lives between four countries (Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria). Eléonore Fourniau’s music is imbued with her experience in France and her encounters with the communities of Anatolia, creating a highly original and lively sound. An evening organised by the Sacré Sound Festival.
PROGRAMMATION | SACRÉ SOUND FESTIVAL
30 March 2025, 5pm at JEM Copernic
In a resilient and unifying spirit, the Ensemble Choral Copernic, under the direction of Itaï Daniel, offers this musical rendezvous blending various styles and influences. A variety of languages too: Latin, Hebrew, English and Yiddish. All with the same goal, the same direction, that of peace. Songs, prayers and styles combining the two, such as Gospel, will celebrate peace and unity. Notably through the early works of Salomon Rossi and more recent works by Arvo Pärt.
Concert pour la Paix – Ensemble Choral Copernic – Judaïsme En Mouvement
15 March 2025, 5.30pm at the Centre Medem
The evening is devoted to the presentation of the book Le Monde yiddish by Olivier Peyroux and Arnaud Nebbache. The book follows the many musical and festive routes of Yiddish culture through its diverse sources and manifestations. It’s a joyous journey through the historical, social and religious themes that inspired the artists’ music. Talking about artists, the Yiddish songs of the Sisterke duo, made up of Alina Baba and Lucia Todoran, accompany this presentation.
Café littéraire et musical-Happy Hour : le monde yiddish – Centre Medem
From 9 to 23 March 2025
The very active Hebraica centre in Toulouse is offering a number of activities in March. These include a film-debate with the presentation of the film Le miroir aux alouettes (on 9 March at 3.30pm at the Cinéma CGR Montauban), a round table on the Resistance fighter Silvio Trentin (on 12 March at 6pm at the Institut Catholique de Toulouse, a conference on ‘Antijudaism during the Lumières’ era, from Voltaire to Vichy’ by Isy Morgensztern (on 13 March at 6.30pm by zoom), a literary encounter with Roger Fajnzylberg about the book What I saw in Auschwitz (on 19 March at 6pm at the Ombres Blanches bookshop in Toulouse) and a film-debate with the screening of The Brutalist, moderated by Maurice Lugassy (on 23 March at 3pm at Cinéma CGR Montauban).
12 March 2025, 6.30pm at the Maïmonide Institute
The historian Tal Bruttmann is a specialist in anti-Semitic policies in France during the Second World War and the ‘Final Solution’ in Europe, and a member of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah. In this talk, he looks at the way in which the Auschwitz concentration camp is and was represented. In particular, through the photos that have been found of the arrival of convoys and victims.
Auschwitz, entre histoire et représentations par Tal Bruttmann – IUMAT
12 March 2025 at 6pm, at the Musée de la bande dessinée
It’s hard enough to pay tribute to one giant. But when two giants come together through their shared works and influences, it’s worthy of a Western with a happy ending. These two New York Jewish children of parents from Eastern Europe embraced America. Each in his own way, according to his generation and his inspiration. Will Eisner (1917-2005), the eldest, was recognised at an early age as a brilliant cartoonist with The Spirit and as a publisher before the war, becoming the creator of the graphic novel in 1978. Jules Feiffer (1929-2025), the brilliant mind who embraced the 1960s generation’s thirst for American roads. The talk will be given by Jean-Pierre Mercier, comics historian, with Benjamin Herzberg, former assistant to Will Eisner, and Didier Pasamonik, comics specialist. At the end of the meeting, a guided tour of the ‘Treasures from the collections’ exhibition, led by Jean-Pierre Mercier, will enable you to discover works by Will Eisner and Jules Feiffer.
Eisner et Feiffer, rencontre au sommet | Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l’image
18 March 2025 at 7pm, at the Caen Memorial
Travelling with this great historian gives us a better understanding of her commitment to sharing memory, which is particularly evident in her books on the Shoah. With a look at the emblematic places familiar to the honorary director of research at the CNRS and vice-president of the Conseil supérieur des Archives. This is an opportunity for participants to hear an important intellectual voice, presenting her personal and family history from Eastern Europe to Paris and New York, from shared culture to enlightened history.
Until 30 March 2025 at the Drancy Shoah Memorial
Homosexuality was a taboo subject in France until it was decriminalised in 1982, so the historical perspective, particularly during the dark pages of history, was also slow to be shared with the public. The Shoah Memorial in Drancy is hosting an exhibition and meetings on the history of the pink triangle worn by homosexual deportees, a symbol of the persecution of homosexuals during the Second World War. Numerous life stories are presented.
Mémorial de la Shoah | Boutique en ligne
Until 6 April 2025 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère
The special nature of this tour means that families, especially children aged 8 and over, can gain a better understanding of the daily lives of people who lived through the Second World War. Focusing in particular on the itinerary of four people. With a narrative that presents the realities they faced. From day-to-day life during the Occupation, to those interned and those who managed to join the maquis.
Raconte-moi la Seconde Guerre mondiale – visite théâtralisée
5 April 2025 at Montluc prison
This tour has been offered every first Saturday of the month since January and will run until May. 80 years after the liberation of the camps, participants will be able to rediscover the lives of those interned in Montluc prison and later deported.
Until 22 June 2025 at CHRD
Lyon was a hotbed of conflict during the Second World War, between Resistance networks and zealous collaborators. The route starting at the CHRD and leading all the way to the Place de la Comédie will enable participants to rediscover the traces of this painful past in the city. Through the buildings, as well as the steles, plaques and street names referring to the war.
Sur les pas de Jean Moulin | CHRD | Musée d’histoire | Lyon dans la guerre, 1939-1945
17 January 2025 at the Swiss Jewish Museum
During the Night of the Museums, in which 40 museums and cultural institutions take part from 6 pm to 2 am. Schalom is Hebrew and peace, love and happiness, welcome… and will be the main theme of this night at the Swiss Jewish Museum, featuring Aline Schroth, a ‘Schalom & Salam’ peace meeting and culminating in a Shtetl Blues concert with Swiss artist Lea Kalisch and Rabbi T, who share their musical talent, biblical inspirations and timeless enthusiasm in Basel…
https://www.juedisches-museum.ch/museumsnacht
From 7 March to 15 September 2025
This exhibition, created to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, highlights the efforts of survivors to rebuild their lives. While for many people the end of the war was a moment of joy, for Jews it was a time of terrible reflection on the suffering and death and the urgent need to rebuild a future for their children far from the horrors. And away from certain places? These are difficult questions addressed in an exhibition presented in a country where 90% of Jews were murdered and where the Nazis built so many death camps. The choices and paths taken by Polish Jews after the war will be presented.
“1945. Not the End, Not the Beginning” | Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN w Warszawie