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8 December 2024 from 10.30am to 6pm at Mazal Café This new edition of the Book Fair brings together many authors and works. And in a variety of forms, including novels, essays, graphic novels, comic strips and cookery books. Some of the authors are also taking part in conferences organised by the organisers. A moment of cultural sharing that is particularly welcome in these difficult times. ...
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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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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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16 June 2024 at 2pm The CCLJ and the Maison de la Culture Juive regularly organise tours of Brussels neighbourhoods to share the past and present of Jewish life, whether in working-class or upmarket districts. This time, it’s the residential district of Uccle, with a very long-standing Jewish presence, as evidenced by the cemetery near the Dieweg. There are currently two Sephardic ...
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5 May 2024 at 2pm The CCLJ and the Maison de la Culture Juive are presenting a themed walk in the company of a guide, as they do regularly to give participants a better understanding of Brussels’ Jewish history and cultural heritage. This time, the tour will focus on Marolles and the surrounding area, which was home to many refugees from Eastern Europe, particularly between the wars. ...
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On 28 January 2024 The CCLJ and La Maison de la Culture Juive are offering a themed walk to mark the International Day of Remembrance for Victims of the Holocaust. The walk will (re)discover the history of the Jewish refugees who settled in this working-class district of Brussels, close to the Gare du Midi and the legendary Union stadium, at the turn of the 20th century. They were very much ...
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23 November 2023 at the CCLJ This musical journey featuring Russian actor, director and writer Veniamin Smekhov and pianist and author of Yiddish poems Evgeny Kissin pays tribute to the Soviet Yiddish poets who fell victim to Stalinism. They were among the 13 Yiddish poets and writers murdered on the night of 12 to 13 August 1952, all members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. There will ...
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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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29 June 2023 at 12.30pm on the CCLJ site This exhibition looks back at anti-Semitic clichés. Their history and their sad present, fuelled by conspiracy theorists during geopolitical events or following the Covid-19 pandemic. This exhibition allows visitors to test and deepen their knowledge of the subject, through photos, videos and stories.
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18 June 2023 at 2pm This walk, in the company of the guide Ben David, will allow you to rediscover Jewish life in this popular district of northern Brussels. The Jewish population of this district grew between the two world wars, as did the neighbouring communes of Saint-Gilles and Anderlecht. This was due to migration from Eastern Europe, and then in the 1960s with the arrival of Sephardim. ...
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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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Brussels, the capital of the European institutions, a celebratory place appreciated by tourists, but also a city immortalised by the numerous comic strips born there, remains an amazing city. The cohabitation of a magnificent old town, office towers, and numerous bars where one finds the warm Belgian spirit. But also a worrying radicalism and its drifts, as illustrated by the terrorist attack ...
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