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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
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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 ...
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November 27 and 30, 2024 at the Théâtre de l’Espérance This piece allows us to address three important, determining moments in Albert Cohen’s life: the confrontation with anti-Semitism at the age of ten in Marseille, the relationship with his mother and his years of work within an international organization. Three moments that inspired Albert Cohen’s books, two thirds of them ...
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October 29, 2024, at 8 p.m. The Jewish Community of Geneva (CIG), in partnership with Gil, B’nai B’rith and Geneva Jewish Heritage, is offering a series of tours on prominent Genevan Jewish women in the city. Starting with the Spierer family. A family whose daring humanitarian actions saved thousands of Greek lives during the Balkan War in 1916-18 and the Smyrna catastrophe in 1922. Cycle ...
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30 January 2024 at the CIG As part of its regular literary events, the Communauté Israélite de Genève is presenting this book set in 1942. It is the story of an 8-year-old child whose life is turned upside down when his parents, artists who emigrated from Eastern Europe, are arrested and murdered. A moving story dealing with the themes of transmission and filiation. Présentation du livre « la ...
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From 31 August to 3 September 2023 As part of the European Days of Jewish Culture, the CIG, in partnership with the GIL, the Henry-Dunant Lodge of B’nai B’rith and the Geneva Jewish Heritage Association, is organising two days. On Thursday 31 August, the book “Albert, Esther, Liebmann, Ruth et les autres. Présences juives en Suisse romande”, edited by Francine ...
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The city of banking and watchmaking… but not only. Geneva is a much more complex city, home to a great university and eminent thinkers for centuries, and it even published one of the first two comic strips in history. It seems that the Jewish presence in Geneva dates from the 13th century, mainly around the in the old town. The Jews were expelled from the city in 1490 and forbidden to ...
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