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Guided tour of the art-deco synagogue and mikveh in Anderlecht
17 November, 2pm The House of Jewish Culture, in partnership with the CCLJ, is organising a guided tour of the Cureghem synagogue, inaugurated in 1933, in this working-class district of Brussels. This was a time when many Jews fled the pogroms of Eastern Europe and the rise of Nazism in Germany. It is one of the last remaining Jewish buildings from this period, which is why it is so important ...
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Anderlecht’s triangle: Jewish memories of a neighbourhood
4 November 2024, 12.30pm at the CCLJ A discussion with Albert Aniel, Sophie Milquet (Fondation de la Mémoire contemporaine) and Yannik van Praag (Fondation Auschwitz) on the book “Anderlecht’s triangle: Jewish memories of a neighborhood”. The book gives participants an insight into the history of the Jewish populations who migrated from Eastern Europe to the working-class districts of ...
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Klezjam
1 September 2024 in Anderlecht The year is starting again, but the notes and the enthusiasm that accompany them are still present. A music of distant and uncertain times, klezmer is reappearing in the four corners of the world to re-enchant us. The Jewish Culture House offers you an introduction to klezmer music, with sessions of nigunim, work on scores, a study of style, personal work and ...
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Exhibition “Passage: Textiles & Rituals”
Until 1 September 2024 at the Jewish Museum of Belgium The museum will soon be closed for major renovations. This exhibition is the last to be presented before these works take place. The Passage is a central theme in Judaism, best known for its connection with the festival of Pesach and the passage through the desert that enabled the people of Israel to prepare for their arrival in the Holy ...
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Screening of the film “My father’s secrets”
17 April 2024 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère This animated film by Véra Belmont is an adaptation of the poignant comic strip Second Generation by Michel Kichka, whom we interviewed earlier. It was dedicated to his father Henri, and tells the story of the resilience of Jews after the war. It’s the moving view of a child from the Belgian city of Liège, ...
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Tour of the Saint-Gilles district
15 October at 2pm On this themed walk, visitors will discover this district near Brussels’ Gare du Midi, which welcomed several waves of Jewish migrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With its three former synagogues, its community and cultural centres, some of which are still standing, and the legendary Union football stadium, a weekly fixture in this working-class ...
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Michael Lustig Monument
Lindenlei, Ghent
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Jewish cemetery of Marcinelle
Rue des Sarts 112, 6001 Charleroi Tel +32 71 36 45 25
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Synagogue of Charleroi
Rue Pige au Croly 56, 6000 Charleroi Tel +32 71 31 10 66
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Jewish Cemetery of Arlon
Rue de Diekirch 243, 6700 Arlon Tel : +32 63 22 46 79
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Synagogue of Arlon
Rue de la Synagogue, 6700 Arlon Tel : +32 470 81 75 16
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Namur
Namur is the capital of the Walloon region and has a great cultural heritage dating back 2000 years. The Jewish presence in Namur declined from the 19th century onwards, contrary to other Belgian cities which witnessed a development of Jewish life, numbering at most a hundred people. Thus, in 1907, the Jewish community disappeared from Namur. Documents show that a rabbi and a hazan were ...
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Arlon
Arlon is a very ancient town, dating back to the Gallo-Roman period. Since 1831, after the national independence, the Belgian constitution regulates the Jewish cult in the same way as the other recognised religions. Nevertheless, it was not until about thirty years later that the first official synagogues were built and inaugurated. In the meantime, prayers and religious festivals were ...
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Dieweg cemetery
Dieweg 95, 1180 Uccle Tel +32 2 374 17 50
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Thematic walk organised by the CCLJ
23 April at 2 p.m., at the Dieweg cemetery This walk is one of several in the Belgian capital. Familiar and more unusual places, bearing witness to Jewish life past and present. During this walk, which takes place in the small cemetery located in the south of Brussels, a history tour will reveal the golden age of Brussels Judaism at the end of the 19th and 20th centuries. Some of the actors ...
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Chai Center
Parklaan 120, 2650 Edegem Tel : +32 475 555 656 https://www.chaicenter.be/
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Mechelen
Few Jews lived in Mechelen before the war, but the city is infamous in Jewish history for the Kazerne Dossin. This building dates from before Belgian independence, from Austrian times. At the beginning of the 20th century it served as a military barracks for the Belgian army. In 1942, when the Nazis were looking for a place to round up the Jews, they chose the Kazerne Dossin. It seemed ...
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Charleroi
Charleroi is a city known for having been a very important coal basin, but also as an industrial centre. Since the decline of these industries, the city has invested heavily in cultural development and is particularly appreciated as a historical centre of comics, with the Marcinellois printer Jean Dupuis creating the magazine Spirou in 1938. The Jewish presence in the city is relatively ...
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Ghent
Ghent is a city known, like Liège, for its student life, but also as an important cultural centre, its port and its ancient textile activity. The Jewish presence in Ghent seems to date back to the 8th century according to some sources. The Jews were expelled from the city in 1125, but were allowed to settle again in the following century. In the following century they were allowed to settle ...
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