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
10 April 2025, 7.30pm at the Portuguese Synagogue
The magnificent setting of the Portuguese synagogue is the venue for regular concerts. On this evening, Marcel Worms presents a programme entitled ‘Jewish composers without borders’. With works by Bernstein, Copeland, Gershwin and Milhaud mixed with jazzy, bluesy and contemporary sounds. Just like Marcel Worms’ international career, since the 1990s he has produced albums by composers as varied as Bach and Glass.
Candlelight Concert | Portuguese Synagogue… | Jewish Cultural Quarter
23 April 2025 at 7.30pm at the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights
Mechthild Gilzmer, Caroline Francois, Catherine Lacour-Astrol and Pierre-Emmanuel Dufayel will retrace the career of women involved in the Resistance in France. The aim is to honour their memory and show the variety of their paths and the challenges they faced during the Second World War.
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16 March 2025 at the Righteous square in Siauliai
The Jewish community of Siauliai invites the public to take part in this day honouring the Righteous who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. A ceremony with speeches, followed by the presentation of an exhibition entitled ‘Unafraid to die, they became immortal’, and a musical performance by Dalia Dėdinskaitė and Gleb Pyšniak on cello.
News – Lithuanian Jewish Community
12 March 2025, 6pm at the Museo Ebraico di Trieste
This conference will focus on the presentation of Liana Novelli’s book, in partnership with the ADEI WIZO of Trieste and Turin, the Trieste Women’s Council and the University of Trieste. The author talks about her background, having been born in Turin, lived in Germany and is currently president of the Coordinamento Donne Italiane di Francoforte. In particular, she talks about the racial laws under Mussolini that affected Italian Jews, including her mother’s family.
From Turin to Frankfurt – Museo Ebraico di Trieste
From 12 March to 15 June 2025 at MEIS
In partnership with the National Library of Israel, this surprising and festive exhibition highlights the main character of the Purim story, Queen Esther. The exhibition features works of Renaissance art to accompany the presentation of the scrolls. These works come from many cities around the world. There will also be interactive activities for young and old alike.
Beautiful Esther. Purim, a timeless story – MEIS
29 and 30 March 2025
The Sephardic Museum is offering workshops to help you better understand Spanish Jewish history, particularly through the lives of different characters and eras. All in different forms: poetry, novel, prose, essay, history, tale, fable, myth, tragedy, comedy, etc. A variety of forms of expression, as varied as these stories and journeys over the centuries. With a desire for authentic interpretation.
29 and 30 March 2025
The Danish Jewish Museum is taking a very active part in this year’s National History Days, as it has done in the past. 6 stages, 75 exhibitors and 150 events will take place over two days! In particular, it will be presenting the 400 years of Danish Jewish life, which have recently been celebrated at a number of official events. Among the activities on offer will be a conversation about the book ‘Borderless Jews’, a presentation of photos about the exile of Jews during the Shoah helped by the courageous Danish people and a discussion about the contemporary lives of Danish Jews living in Israel.
We are involved in Historical Days! – Jew mouse
27 March 2025, 7pm at the Jewish Museum in Belgium
This musical event, devised by Patricia Jankowska, is organised in collaboration with the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles. The aim is to shed light on the life and work of this emblematic figure in the defence of children’s rights. A paediatrician, teacher and author, Janusz Korczak fought all his life for these rights, giving up his own to accompany them when they were deported to Treblinka in 1942. Music by Piotr Moss, under the artistic coordination of Jean-Marc Fessard, will accompany this moving presentation of Korczak’s destiny.
From 20 March to 10 December 2025 at the Kazerne Dossin
As shown in the recent film El amor en su lugar (Love in its place), which depicts how the Nazis starved the Warsaw ghetto of what little energy it had left, art played a role in helping people to survive. The same was true of some of the sports movements in the camps, enabling the deportees to hold out, but also being exploited by their executioners to punish them even more physically. Letters, photos and personal accounts retrace the journeys of athletes in the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp.
Exposition temporaire: « Le Sport et les athlètes au KL Auschwitz » | Kazerne Dossin
18 March 2025, 7pm at the Centre Communautaire Juif Laïc
Like a dimly lit room in Odessa, a musical cellar in Saint-Germain or a cabaret on New York’s Lower East Side, the CCLJ is offering an astonishing evening of music. A mix of enthusiasm and influences. Israeli and French songs and sounds of world music. With, of course, a touch of klezmer, in the good-natured spirit of Belgian cultural encounters. Performers include Dianka Songo, Juliette Lacroix, Michèle Baczynsky, Myriam Ron Roth, Shaya Feldman and Franco Panizon.
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.