From 8 October 2025 to 26 January 2026 at the Orangerie
It is not only art that is avant-garde, the contribution of certain gallery owners is just as important. One such figure was Berthe Weill, a rare woman in this milieu, who opened a gallery at 25 Rue Victor-Massé in the Pigalle district in 1901. Her aim was to showcase the work of little-known artists who would go on to become the great names of the century, including Picasso, Matisse and Modigliani, as well as female artists such as Emilie Charmy and Suzanne Valadon. Berthe Weill was their spokesperson, committing herself to them and their potential audience for forty years, until her gallery closed in 1940 following the first persecutions of Jews in France during the Holocaust.
Exposition Berthe Weill. Galeriste d’avant-garde | Musée de l’Orangerie
18 September 2025 at 7pm at the Shoah Memorial.
To mark the publication of Harmonies volées. Spring 1945: the return of pianos looted by the Nazis by Caroline Piketty (L’Archipel, 2025), the Memorial welcomes the author and Pascale Bernheim, founder of the association Musique et Spoliations. The book presents an investigation into the journey of pianos stolen during the Holocaust, their owners, and those who betrayed them.
Mémorial de la Shoah | Boutique en ligne
Until 16 November 2025 at the mahJ
More than 250 photographs, posters, documents and costumes have been brought together by the Museum of Jewish Art and History to retrace the little-known life of dancer Paula Padani (1913-2001). The last Jewish student at the renowned Wigman dance school in Dresden, this Hamburg native emigrated to Israel in 1936. She opened a dance school in Tel Aviv and created a repertoire of solo pieces. In 1946, she moved to Paris with her husband, Michael Gottlieb, known as Aram. He devoted himself to painting, while Paula triumphed in Europe and New York.
14 September 2025, from 3pm to 6pm
During this afternoon, the YCC team, its facilitators and teachers will welcome the public to present the activities offered throughout the year. Classes and workshops begin on 15 September. The library and the exhibition ‘100 Years of Yiddish Books,’ presented for Heritage Days, will also be open. The Tshaynik café will be open for tea and cake.
Journée Portes Ouvertes de la MCY – programme.yiddish.paris
2 October, 8pm, Goethe Institute, Paris
This tribute concert marks the launch of the 25-26 Paris season of the Forum Voix Etouffées. The forum is named in honour of composers who were prevented from practising their craft by the Nazi regime and other totalitarian regimes. The concert aims to trace the path from Arnold Schoenberg to the plurality of Stolpersteine, laid in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. The programme includes: Arnold Schoenberg, Das Buch der Hängenden Garten, opus 15 (excerpts), Max Deutsch, Valse très lente, Max Deutsch, Liliom
based on the manuscript from the A. du Closel collection, now part of the Arnold Schönberg Center collections, Amaury du Closel, Stolpersteine, Luis de Pablo, Cesuras op. 13 and Darmstadt, Tonos, 1963.
Tuesdays from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at JEM Copernic
Choir directors Frédéric Albou and Thomas Tacquet lead the Copernic Choral Ensemble in its various performances. During concerts, of which at least three are planned throughout the year, the ensemble shares works from the great repertoire of Jewish music, both liturgical and secular, with the public. The Copernic Choral Ensemble also regularly participates in festivals in France and abroad, where it sings in Hebrew, French and Yiddish as well as Italian, German and English.
Ensemble Choral Copernic – Judaïsme En Mouvement
14 September starting at 10 a.m. at JEM Beaugrenelle
To mark the start of the year, JEM is hosting an open house to introduce visitors to its wide range of activities. Visitors will be able to discover weekly classes, conferences and workshops in a wide range of fields, including choir, bridge, ulpan, krav maga, calligraphy, biblical Hebrew and Pilates. These will be presented by JEM staff and guest speakers over a buffet lunch.
Forum des activités : journée portes ouvertes – Judaïsme En Mouvement
Until 30 September 2025 at the Galerie Saphir
Blending Caribbean culture with European artistic influences, Elisabeth Olle Curiel takes visitors on a unique journey through Venezuelan, Native American, Jewish and Catalan references. She reveals unexpected links between these cultures, shared through her brushstrokes, from canvas to canvas. An artistic journey inspired by the experiences of Elisabeth Ollé Curiel, whose family settled in the Dutch Antilles.
Elisabeth OLLE CURIEL | 7 August – 30 September 2025 – Overview | GALERIE SAPHIR
4 September, from 5pm to 7pm, and 7 September, from 4pm to 6pm
This event gives visitors the opportunity to discover the many activities offered by the Medem Centre and to sign up for classes, workshops and choirs. Teachers and facilitators will be on hand to present the content, assess levels and enroll participants in courses in Yiddish, Hebrew, Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Arabic, Israeli dance, choirs, Hebrew literature, genealogy, theatre, Yiddish and Hebrew conversation, wellness and more.
Until 7 March 2026 at the Haute-Garonne Departmental Museum of Resistance and Deportation
Inspired by the call of philosopher Jean-Pierre Vernant, former head of the FFI in Haute-Garonne, to preserve documents during the Liberation, former resistance fighters and deportees gathered these documents in 1975 to form the basis of the Museum of Resistance and Deportation. In the 50 years since this initiative began, many additional documents have been added to the museum’s collections. This anniversary exhibition pays tribute to the museum’s founders and donors, featuring a number of previously unseen items.
Until 4 January 2026 at the Caen Memorial
Based on an original exhibition at the Shoah Memorial, this exhibition traces the extraordinary courage of Varian Fry, who was commissioned by the Emergency Rescue Committee. The American journalist managed to obtain numerous visas for European artists and writers threatened with deportation. Among them were Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, Alma Mahler and André Breton. The exhibition’s organisers aim to shed light on this little-known episode of the war and to remind us of the importance of resistance in the face of barbarism in every era, especially our own.
Exposition – Varian Fry – les chemins de l’exil – Mémorial de Caen
Until 12 February 2026 at the Mémorial de la Shoah – Drancy
The artist attended the opening of this exhibition dedicated to his work, which was organised by Eléonore Ward. It pays tribute to his work as a witness and artist, a survivor of the Holocaust and a sharer of memories. Selinger is best known for the Monument to the Deportees, which he designed in 1976 and which stands in front of the former internment camp in Drancy. Sixty works, some of which have never been seen before, allow visitors to discover the richness and diversity of his artistic work and the humanist spirit with which he imbued it.
Until 4 January 2026 at the Museum of Resistance and Deportation in Isère
Thanks to its photographic and film archives, the Museum of Resistance and Deportation in Isère offers a new approach to themes related to war. This is to enable visitors to understand the complexity of the events that took place during the Liberation of Isère and the days that followed. This seven-minute immersive experience plunges visitors into moments of tension, joy and violence, mixing the welcome given to heroes with the judgement of traitors.
Vivre la Libération – Expérience immersive | Portail des Musées
Until 31 January 2026 at the Montluc Prison National Memorial
Major restoration work has been carried out at the Memorial, including the consolidation of all the surrounding walls, the development of the walkway, and the renovation of the former workshop building. The progress of this work has been documented by photographer Bertrand Pichène, who is sharing his work with the public to mark the completion of the restoration.
Exposition temporaire 2025-2026 – Mémorial national prison de Montluc
Until 8 February 2026 at the CHRD
A series of tours have been offered since February 2025 and will continue for a year, to provide a better understanding of the persecution suffered by Jews during the Holocaust. This educational initiative addresses topics such as the wearing of the yellow star, as well as the reaction of their French compatriots to these discriminatory measures and their consequences.
15 September 2025 at Adath Shalom
Adath Shalom is offering a number of cultural events this autumn. Some of these are organised by Graines de Psaumes. On the programme for 15 September:
2:30 p.m. – ‘A Name as a Legacy: A History of Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish Surnames’ – A discussion with Alain Kaminski about his book.
4 p.m. – ‘When French Poets Write Midrash’ by Sandra Yerushalmi
7 September 2025 at the Jewish-Alsatian Museum
As part of European Yiddish Culture Day and inspired by its theme for 2025, ‘People of the Books’, each song guides you towards a narrative, a story, a shared experience. Singer Lloica Czackis and accordionist Marcel Loeffler bridge and unite generations with their Yiddish poems, read in their original language and then translated into French.
11 September 2025 at 6pm at the Jean Denat Auditorium in Posquières-Vauvert
Professor of comparative literature Alexis Nouss explores this theme and the ancient and recent traces relating to it. He attempts to answer the following questions: Is Jewish literature a direct reflection of a culture, a religion, a history, often tragic? Or does it manifest a relationship to the world among authors whose origins may designate them as Jewish? Both well-known and rare texts will be studied, and tribute will be paid to the medieval past of Posquières-Vauvert and its Jewish mystics.
Société D’histoire Vauvert Posquières | Facebook
From 11 June to 22 June 2025 at the ACJ
A refugee during the occupation, living with his family in a turret in Ussel, André Lippmann began to observe the world around him. He drew inspiration to represent it on his canvases. Secrecy was not an empty word at the time. And this word would continue to accompany his work much later, in his discreet studios on Rue de la Source and Rue Jeanne d’Arc. His surrealist artistic adventure would leave a mark on young artists in Nancy, notably Myriam Librach, who pays him a beautiful tribute. This exhibition will allow the public to discover the work of this great Nancy artist who passed away in January 2025.
Association Culturelle Juive de Nancy – maison ouverte des cultures juives
12 June 2025, at 6pm at the Galerie Saphir
For many decades, the Galerie Saphir has supported and paid tribute to great contemporary Jewish artists. On Thursday 12 June, it will do so once again with an artist it knows well, Serge Kantorowicz. He died in 2022 and was a powerful and unique painter who did not mince his words when describing and sharing the human condition. During this special evening, Delphine Durand, who holds a PhD in art history and religious history, will sign her monograph dedicated to him.
26 June 2025, at 6pm, at the ACJ
In Romain Gary’s book The Dance of Genghis Cohn, from the very first pages, the author brings his character to life with all the madness that characterises him and all the legendary Jewish humour that makes him so colourful. Didier Francfort looks back at the Roaring Twenties, when Warsaw cabarets were a favourite haunt of fashionable singers, film stars, avant-garde writers and composers, both classical and popular. The Jewish Cultural Association, in partnership with the University of Lorraine-Le Cercle and the Nancy-France-Poland Association, invites you to immerse yourself in the nights of yesteryear in Warsaw. Discover these great artists, the many men and women who influenced numerous contemporary artists, such as Henryk Wars, Julian Tuwim, Marian Hemar and Wiera Gran…
Association Culturelle Juive de Nancy – maison ouverte des cultures juives
1 June 2025, at 3pm, at the Jewish Cultural Association of Nancy
Rwanda embodies a remarkable spirit of resilience 30 years after the genocide. The country is demonstrating its ability to be at the forefront of artistic and literary creation, embracing new technologies and developing the whole country. This is despite the fact that in 1994, more than 1,000,000 Tutsis were victims of genocide. This meeting with Marcel Kabanda will address the painful issues of coexistence between perpetrators and victims, doubts about trust in others and faith in God. Above all, it will highlight the need to continue educating all children for a better future.
Association Culturelle Juive de Nancy – maison ouverte des cultures juives
Until 22 June 2025 at the Musée de l’Armée – Invalides
A refugee in the United States during the war, Jean Gabin volunteered to join the French army at the age of 40 to help liberate the country. The senior officers wanted to assign him to entertain the troops, but he categorically refused, insisting on taking part in the fighting. He did so heroically, reverting to his birth name, Jean Moncorgé, to show that he was just another soldier. The museum’s exceptional exhibition traces the destinies of artists and intellectuals who, during the Second World War, chose exile and waged an intense cultural struggle. These include Jean Gabin, Fernand Léger, Ossip Zadkine, Romain Gary, Alexander Calder, Paul Éluard and many others.
Un exil combattant. Les artistes et la France 1939-1945
25 and 29 May 2025
On 25 May at 4pm, the Café des Psaumes will welcome the Sefardi collective, which brings together generations of artists and friends of Judeo-Spanish cultures to share and pass on the Judeo-Spanish repertoire. Then, on 29 May at 4pm, it hosts a concert by Alain Douieb, sharing an anthology of oriental music and songs by Enrico Macias.
Le programme du Café des Psaumes
19 June 2025 at 4pm at the Institut Cervantès in Paris
Aki Estamos is organising this day-long tribute to this beautiful and ancient culture, featuring a meeting with Myriam Moscona in dialogue with Julia Chardavoine, on the occasion of the publication in French of her novel Sewn Shadows (Lior éditions, 2024) translated from Spanish and Judeo-Spanish by Julia Chardavoine. A return to the family footsteps through numerous journeys through time and space, Mexico City, Sofia, Madrid, Thessalonica, Israel… and the sounds of Ladino.
Journée judéo-espagnole | Aki Estamos
From 14 June to 2 November 2025 at the Musée de Vence
As part of an association with the Musée National Marc Chagall, the Musée de Vence – Fondation Emile Hugues is honouring the artist by exhibiting his works from the Vence period, produced between 1949 and 1966, during which time the artist lived in Vence. The town’s influence on his work, with its vegetation, its light and its gentle way of life, motivated Chagall to experiment with new artistic techniques. Vence cathedral is home to a mosaic by Chagall depicting Moses.
Chagall, les années vençoises. Une renaissance méditerranéenne | Musée National Marc Chagall
27 May 2025 at the Espace Rachi – Guy de Rothschild
To mark the 45th anniversary of the death of Joe Dassin, an artist who continues to leave his mark on new generations with his sweet melodies, his declarations of humour and love, his strolls through Luxembourg, the Champs-Elysées and Guantanamera, a tribute evening is being organised in the presence of his son, Julien Dassin, lyricist Claude Lemesle and singer Candice Parise. The evening was orchestrated and hosted by composer Laurent Couson.
6 June 2025 at 7pm at the House of Yiddish Culture – Medem Library
Armed with nigunim, mystical melodies that have been shared for centuries, Shura Lipovsky invites participants to discover their true voice/way. Art and relaxation combine in this original method based on Shura Lipovsky’s knowledge of traditional Ashkenazi culture and Jewish spirituality.
Voix/voie méditative avec Shura Lipovsky (en français, en présentiel) – programme.yiddish.paris
1 June 2025, 8pm to midnight at JEM Copernic
An evening of reflection and exchange on the theme of ‘Democracy and the Ten Words’ is proposed for this new edition of the night of study on the feast of Shavuot, with Rabbis Jonas Jacquelin and Philippe Haddad. These regular get-togethers foster a spirit of study and exchange between participants, without rushing into the evening, helping to find answers for a troubled world.
Nuit d’études Chavouot 5785 : JEM Copernic – Judaïsme En Mouvement
1 June 2025, 8pm to midnight at JEM East
An evening of reflection and exchange on the theme of ‘Democracy and the Ten Words’ is proposed for this new edition of the night of study on the feast of Shavuot, with Rabbis Gabriel Fahri and Marine de Moliner. For one evening, rediscover the spirit of dialogue and study around ancient texts, drawing lessons from them to combat contemporary disenchantment.
Nuit d’études Chavouot 5785 : JEM Est – Judaïsme En Mouvement