Until 30 October 2025 at the Musée Judéo-Alsacien
Numerous events are being organised around this exhibition, including guided tours on 12 June, 17 July, 13 August and 21 August. There will also be a mini-festival of Jewish music from the Hanau region on 7 September, the European Day of Jewish Culture and Heritage.
20 May 2025 at 6.30pm at IUMAT
The immense comedian and actor Daniel Mesguich, who has been on stage and screen for more than 50 years, will be on the same wavelength as the Bible at this long-awaited event at IUMAT. So let’s close our eyes between now and that date, just as a curtain opens on a bookshop in his character where he reunited with Marie-France Pisier in L’Amour en fuite, and let’s imagine for a moment the scope of this summit encounter with a Book so shared and interpreted.
Le Premier Livre par Daniel Mesguich – IUMAT
Until 20 May 2025 at Galerie Saphir
Galerie Saphir is in the habit of surprising visitors with its tributes to great established artists and contemporary nuggets that have been discovered. This new exhibition is devoted to Nat Mayer Shapiro (1919-2005), a painter committed to opposing barbarism and its tragic manifestations in the history of the 20th century. Far from giving in to the siren song of disenchantment, his work offers signs of hope, paths of enlightenment…
Until 3 June
Hebraïca is staging this festival at a variety of venues in Toulouse, reflecting the range of emotions generated by these films. Starting with Cupcakes by Eytan Fox, a marvellous kitsch comedy set in Paris when an amateur group takes part in a Eurovision-style show, with Edouard Baer playing a small but delightful role. There are also some deeply moving films dealing with current events in the Middle East, women’s struggles for equality and the courage of sportsmen and women and artists from enemy countries to forge links before politics do: Read Lolita in Tehran and The Syrian Bride by Eran Riklis, The Deserter by Dani Rosenberg, Tatami by Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Guy Nattiv and Mariana’s Room by Emmanuel Finkiel.
Until 20 June 2025 at the Institut Universitaire et Culturel Européen Rachi
This series, under the direction of Gérard Rabinovitch and Danièle Lévy, brings together hermeneutics, political philosophy and psychoanalysis in an approach to this essential work by Levinas in his quest for Wisdom, a quest that has been present for two and a half millennia in both Jerusalem and Athens. Following the lectures by Armand Abecassis, Catherine Chalier and Daniel Salvatore Schiffer, four other events have been announced: Jean-Michel Salanskis on 16 May, Danièle Lévy on 23 May, Christian Hoffman on 6 June and Gérard Rabinovitch on 20 June.
Lectures croisées – Institut Universitaire Européen Rachi
On 18 June 2025 at 12:30 pm at the Maison Juive Dumas
This exhibition highlights the female figures of the Bible, showing the variety of characters and their important role in Jewish history. These are assertive and combative women, facing up to the challenges of their time.
Da’at au féminin Visite guidée de l’exposition “Femmes du Tanakh” – Communauté Israélite de Genève
From 25 April 2025 at the Shoah Museum in Stockholm
This in-depth exhibition shows how the media presented events in Germany from 1933 onwards, followed by the anti-Jewish measures enacted in Europe and the deportations. How certain facts were reported and others omitted, depending on the commitment of the journalists, their editorial line and local and international political pressure. We pay tribute to the courageous journalists who defied these pressures and bans.
In Black and White – Sveriges museum om Förintelsen
Until 22 February 2026 at the Jewish Museum Stockholm
This extraordinary exhibition pays tribute to the Swedish photographer, known for her portraits and advertisements, but who also immortalised Swedish Jewish life in the second half of her career. From the 1930s onwards, she went on reportage to document the lives of the Jewish, Roma and Swedish minorities. Anna Riwkin (1908-1970) travelled extensively, producing books for adults and children that made her famous. For three decades, she photographed numerous events in Swedish Jewish life. With her husband, she also launched a Swedish Jewish cultural institute. Anna Riwkin travelled frequently to Israel from the 1940s onwards, photographing its inhabitants across the country, reflecting the diversity of its population.
Anna Riwkin – A Swedish Jewish photographer | Judiska museet
From 23 May to 7 September 2025 at the Rembrandt Museum
This exhibition allows visitors to discover the Amsterdam of four centuries ago, through the eyes of its great painter. Its houses and vegetation, as well as its inhabitants, are portrayed through the unique eyes of Rembrandt, who blended the people of his neighbourhood and his daily life into the melting pot that was Amsterdam. 60 drawings and prints from the museum’s collection will take you on this wonderful journey through time.
Rembrandt & Amsterdam – Rembrandthuis
Until 1 August 2025 on the Place de la Resistance
The exhibition celebrates the 80th anniversary of the return from exile of Grand Duchess Charlotte (1896-1985). Following the German invasion, the Grand Duchess left for London, then the United States, where she became involved in the war effort to liberate the country, regularly addressing her compatriots on the BBC, becoming a symbol of hope and Resistance. Her son, Crown Prince Jean, also took part in the liberation of the country as a soldier.
Until 10 September 2025 at the Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History
This exhibition travels from museum to museum, on four wheels and into the imagination of New York artist Steve Marcus. Using the skateboard as his canvas, his exhibition SK8ART – Vilna Edition / Jewish Quarter Pipe, Kosher Pop SK8 Art includes new motifs that he has created specifically for the Museum of Jewish History in Vilna Gaon. Marcus’ themes of tradition, change and spiritual rebirth reflect his evolving view of Jewish culture and history and his enthusiasm for biblical study. The exhibition will be curated by Dr. Eddy Portnoy of the YIVO, an expert in Jewish popular culture.
22 May 2025 at 10am at the Jewish Museum Trieste
This study day is organised by the association Un mare di Archeologia, Musica Libera, the Carlo and Vera Wagner Museum and the Società Friulana di Archeologia, Storigrafica, Casa Alta, with the support of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia and the Trieste City Council. The exhibition will present the latest research on these manuscripts and how they relate to biblical interpretation. With lectures by Corrado Martone, Isabella Maurizion, Giulio Mariotti and Giovanni Ibba.
Qumran and the scrolls – Museo Ebraico di Trieste
15 June 2025 at 1pm with the Irish Jewish Museum
The museum offers a guided tour of Portobello, once home to many Jews at the turn of the 20th century. The time when the famous author James Joyce wrote Ulysses, with his character Leopold Bloom. This visit will give you a better understanding of Jewish life at the time, its issues and realities, as well as the author’s inspiration for creating the central character of his novel.
Joyce Focus Tour – Jewish Dublin in the time of Ulysses – Irish Jewish Museum
Until 31 August 2025 at the Jewish Museum Thessaloniki
This exhibition is made up of rare archival documents from collectors and researchers Christos Kavvadas, Spyridon Anagnostou, Nora Kounios and Petros Papakyriakou and is based on the book of the same title by author Thrasyvoulos Papastratis, as well as other remarkable studies on the Jewish community of Kastoria. It will explore what Jewish life was like there, as well as the trauma of the Shoah, which decimated the vast majority of Jews. A number of films will be shown, including the documentary ‘Trezoros, the lost Jews of Kastoria’.
« Cendres et larmes dans le lac… Histoire des Juifs de Kastoria”
29 May 2025 at 4.30pm at the Museo Sefardi
A number of complex themes are addressed in this colloquium, including the origin of the Conversos phenomenon (by Ricardo Izquierdo Benito), the turning point of 1449 with its rebellion (by Oscar Lopez Gomez), and judeoconversos in Spain from the 15th to the 18th century (by Enrique Soria Mesa, Ana Isabel Lopez-Salazar Codes and Felipe Vidales del Castillo). On Thursdays from April to June, the museum presents the new approaches proposed in the new exhibition discourse, with the aim of making the content more accessible to the general public.
22 June 2025 in Uccle
This celebration takes place as part of the Fête de la Musique. It brings together Belgian and international artists on stage, in a spirit of enthusiastic sharing. Among the artists scheduled for the day are Alexandra Kavvadias, Jonathan Rabinowitch, André Reinitz, Krupnic, Jaqamaz and Sarina. A rich and varied programme of singing and dancing all day long, from midday onwards.
Fête des Musiques Juives 2025 – La Maison de la Culture Juive
21 May 2025 at the Jewish Museum of Belgium
The concert presents a rich and varied repertoire based on the prayer for the dead, the Kaddish, with works by great composers such as Salomone Rossi, Maurice Ravel, André Hajdu, Josef Dorfman and Emanuel Vahl, as well as original compositions by Shaya Feldman. Shaya Feldman is on stage (vocals and double bass), accompanied by Franco Panizon on piano.
Concert Kaddish – Musée Juif de Belgique
5 June 2025, 1.45pm
The CCLJ, in association with the Maison de la Culture juive, is continuing its visits around Brussels, with the working-class districts near the station, where many Jews settled at the beginning of the 20th century, but also in Woluwe. Jewish life in Brussels in this area is particularly relevant to the Second World War, when Jews were rounded up but also witnessed courageous acts of rescue.
Woluwe et les enfants déportés de Gatti de Gamond – CCLJ
Until 5 October 2025 at the Jewish Museum Vienna
This exhibition looks at questions concerning the divine presence, from biblical perception to our contemporary, individualistic period, with its different representations. The exhibition includes works of art and ritual objects. The complex links between religion and science, providence and individual freedom are all explored.
Exhibition Detail | Jüdisches Museum Wien
From 20 April 2025 at the National Holocaust Museum
This exhibition follows the journey of Leo Stein, a German Jewish child aged 10 in 1938, who was forced to flee Berlin in the aftermath of Kristallnacht. His parents, fearing for his life, organised his escape to England. This former exhibition has been enlarged. Personal accounts, objects and extracts from Leo’s diary are shared with visitors. This presentation pays tribute to the children who made the crossing, focusing on their journey. At the end of the exhibition, there are also testimonials from refugees who fled the genocides of Cambodia, Rwanda and Srebrenica.
The Journey Exhibition at National Holocaust Museum
19 and 20 May 2025 at Cinéma Phoenix
This American film, directed by Wendy Sachs and starring Debra Messing, Deborah Lipstadt and Noa Tishby, explores the dizzying global rise in anti-Semitic acts since the Hamas pogrom in Israel. It shows without concession the hatred and the acts committed, particularly on campuses. Actress Debra Messing produced the documentary.
29 May 2025 at the Manchester Jewish Museum
What better way to get to know Shavuot better than by working with the organisers of this workshop to prepare the wonderful and timeless cheesecake? Each participant is free to add their own personal touch with lemon, chocolate, honey or fruit. The workshop is open to all. A visit to the museum will follow.
Manchester Jewish Museum — Make it! Design your own Cheesecake
Until 8 September 2025 at the Jewish Museum London
On the occasion of their acquisition by the museum, a number of images devoted to contemporary Jewish life are being presented to the public. These images reflect the diversity of contemporary Jewish life, capturing festive occasions, major events and everyday life. The exhibition also aims to raise awareness of the history and life of British Jews among their compatriots.
Modern Jewish Life – The Jewish Museum London
From 17 to 22 August 2025
The Jewish Music Institute is offering a week of immersion in Yiddish, its language, songs and culture. Courses at different levels are proposed, for beginners and advanced learners of all ages, with renowned Yiddish teacher Khayele Beer and a team of teachers working alongside her. Masterclasses will include concerts, films and discussions on the contemporary Yiddish world in London and beyond.
Ot Azoy 2025 – Learn Yiddish – Jewish Music Institute
Until 1 March 2026 at the Munich Jewish Museum
This exhibition, organised in partnership with the Vienna Jewish Museum, focuses on the transmission of trauma through several generations. And how survivors deal with the emotional legacy. Some choose to tell their children and/or grandchildren, while others remain silent in order to rebuild their lives. These issues are all the more difficult to tackle now that the last survivors of the Shoah have disappeared.
Jüdisches Museum München – The Third Generation. The Holocaust in Family Memory
Until 30 November 2025 at the Frankfurt Jewish Museum
The Ostend district, which first developed in the 19th century, was home to many Jews who gradually left the Frankfurt ghetto. By the end of the century, they made up a quarter of the district’s population. The Shoah claimed many victims. The synagogue, inaugurated in 1907, was destroyed and replaced by a bunker during the war. The museum exhibition, a tribute to Jewish life in the Ostend district, is located on the ground floor of this former bunker.
East End – Looking into a Jewish Quarter – Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt
From 20 May to 12 October 2025 at the Jewish Museum Berlin
This exhibition looks at the cultural legacy of Salman Schocken, who was a publisher and entrepreneur. American author Joshua Cohen explores his books and objects in the museum. This quest presents Schocken’s complexity and his ability to combine the cultural and entrepreneurial worlds, as a worthy spiritual descendant of Zevulun and Issachar.
Inventories | Jewish Museum Berlin
Un”til 21 September 2025 at the Augsburg Jewish Museum
This temporary exhibition, which has been installed in the permanent part of the exhibition for the Pessach period, provides answers to key questions asked by the public about this important celebration in the Jewish calendar. This workshop highlights the work carried out by pupils from the Elias Holl primary school to understand and present Jewish Easter.
30 March 2025 from 10am, at the CIG
To mark Biblioweekend 2025, the IGC is organising an astonishing day of meetings and activities. Starting with its guest of honour, author Douglas Kennedy. Here are the details of these activities: a presentation of the treasures of the Jewish Library by the Library team (10.15am), followed by ‘1 work in 10 minutes’ with Daniel Halpérin, Glorice Weinstein and Serge Hazanov (10.45am), an interview with Pierre Hazan on ‘Negotiating with the Devil: Mediation in Armed Conflict’ (11.15am), and a meeting and signing session with the guest authors (12pm). In the afternoon, late risers can take part in a presentation of the treasures of the Jewish Library by the Library team (4pm) and new presentations of ‘1 work in 10 minutes’ on the theme of Jewish life in Geneva with Idit Ezrati, Daniel Ferreira and André Klopmann (4.30pm). This will be followed by an interview with Douglas Kennedy (5pm). Then there will be further presentations of ‘1 work in 10 minutes’ with Michel Borzykowski, Ilan Lew, Massia, Leo Kaneman and Rose R. Yarom (5.45 p.m.). It’s sure to be a lovely long literary stroll…
Until 9 September 2025 at the synagogue in Maribor
This exhibition presents the story of the women deported during the Holocaust, with the aim of raising public awareness of this tragic history and remembering these victims. It was prepared by Boris Hajdinjak (Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor) and Monika Kokalj Kočevar (National Museum Of Contemporary History Of Slovenia). The exhibition opened at the museum in 2024.
Slovenian Female Inmates in Nazi Concentration Camps – Sinagoga Maribor