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18 May 2024 at 4.30pm at the House of Yiddish Culture The famous Yiddish author asked his children to get together on each anniversary of his death to read aloud some of his funniest texts, as a way of sharing his work with joy, even in his absence. It’s a wish shared by the House of Yiddish Culture. Excerpts from Tevye le laitier will be read, and the short story from Les Gens de ...
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From 4 April 2024 to 27 April 2025 at the mahJ As part of this programme, the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme is highlighting the lives and work of the women artists in its collections. The first exhibition is devoted to Charlotte Henschel (1892-1985), Georgette Meyer (1916-2020) and Sonia Steinsapir (1912-1980). The exhibition looks at the career paths, artistic expressions ...
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17 March, 28 April, 26 May and 16 June 2024 The links between Judaism and ecology go back a very long way, and are particularly marked by the presence of these themes in the Bible around the respect due to nature, the working of the land and its rest, as well as the animal condition. La Manne is the think tank of Judaism on the Move (JEM) and studies these links, cross-referencing texts from ...
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The CBL regularly organises visits to these emblematic sites in Médan. Visitors can follow the story of these two great men and their common fight for the values and dignity of the French Republic. The aim is to share with future generations the values of these two men and their courage in the face of adversity, by showing the xenophobic speeches and anti-Semitic caricatures. But also the ...
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2 April 2024 at 8pm at the Centre Medem Alexandre Bande, Guy Konopnicki and Rudy Reichstadt present the collective work “Political History of antisemitism in France”. The book analyses this overt or covert presence within French political parties, from 1967 to the present day. The evolution of antisemitism, its manifestations and the way it is conveyed, particularly following the ...
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9 April 2024 at 7pm at the Caen Memorial This year, 2024, music during the war is approached from two different angles. The first part of the year will explore artistic life under the Occupation. Then, the desire to sing after the Liberation. Musician and journalist Thierry Geffrotin presents the different ways in which people “entertained” themselves in an attempt to forget ...
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31 March 2024 at 10.30am at the Drancy Shoah Memorial Many Jews lived in this popular département throughout the 20th century, in the suburbs of Paris at the beginning of the century, but also later in Sarcelles and other places emblematic of Jewish settlement in North Africa. Through the study of the different destinies of Jewish volunteers, members of the Resistance, hidden children and ...
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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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Until 29 June 2024 at the Montluc Memorial This exhibition features works by visual artist Nicolas Daubanes. One of them was created for the occasion, following an immersion in the Montluc Memorial, based on a study of the archives and discussions with visitors to the site. The aim is to emphasise transmission, by allowing art and memory to interact freely. This project is all the more ...
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Until 8 September 2024 at the CHRD This exhibition is an opportunity to rediscover the impact of the Second World War on women. Both in terms of their support for the war effort and their involvement in the Resistance, but also the way in which the Vichy regime tried to limit their freedoms by assigning them solely to family roles. Les femmes durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale | CHRD | Musée ...
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28 March 2024 at the Institut universitaire Rachi Didier Francfort, university professor and specialist in cultural history at the University of Lorraine, presents the background to and reasons for the musical encounter between these two worlds, jazz and klezmer. The former is mainly a music created by black Americans and the latter is rooted in the musical tradition of Yiddishland. Since the ...
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At the MEIS This exhibition takes up a huge challenge: to present 2200 years of Italian Jewish history and culture in a 24-minute show! Directed by Giovanni Carrada and Manuela Fugenzi, the show takes the audience through the eras, the golden ages of Italian Judaism, as well as the darker pages. A task made all the more difficult and rigorous by the fact that it takes into account the ...
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From 15 to 17 March 2024 Created in Egland, Limmud has been a major cultural event in France for the last fifteen years. It enables artists, intellectuals and other enthusiasts from a wide range of backgrounds in Jewish culture to present workshops and lectures to the participants. This year, Denmark is in the spotlight at the weekend organized near Paris, marking the 80th anniversary of the ...
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The Museum of Turkish Jews has put on this exhibition, thanks to the work of Metin Delevi, which tells the story of the country’s Jews during the war. It is on display in the Grand Edirne synagogue. The Quincentenial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews – EXHIBITION ON OTTOMAN JEWS OF ÇANAKKALE (GALLIPOLI) AND WORLD WAR ONE (muze500.com)
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During 2024, a number of objects from the Jewish Museum London will be on display at the synagogue to celebrate English Jewish heritage. These include documents, photographs and ritual objects. Museum on the Move: Bradford – The Jewish Museum London
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Until 30 June 2024 at the Jewish Museum Vienna Four years ago, we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Austrian Constitution. The role played by the Jewish jurist Hans Kelsen in writing this constitution is not insignificant. His father, a candlestick maker, installed the candlesticks in the Vienna synagogue. A professor at the University of Vienna, Hans Kelsen helped to draft the ...
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From 24 to 31 January 2024 Over the course of a week, a host of events will celebrate the tenth edition of this festival, which this year focuses on Tehilim. These include a guided tour on 24 January to find out more about Jewish life in Basel in days gone by. There will also be a lecture by musicologist Edwin Seroussi at Basel University on 29 January. And, of course, concerts. Tehillim – ...
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At the Jewish Museum Stockholm How far does the unknown lead? What are its limits and its capacity to cross them? In any case, Bea Szenfeld’s exhibition goes beyond walls to explore the heights of the former synagogue and touch its clouds. Clouds are a religious symbol that features prominently in religious texts, and the exhibition looks at their current symbolism at a time when ...
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10 April at the Dornbirn City Museum In cooperation with the Jewish Museum Hohenems, this German film by Christoph Hubner from 2017 deals with how grandparents’ past affects lives and how to overcome this. Seven people, grandchildren of Nazis or their victims, testify. With sincerity and without pathos, with the aim of helping new generations deal with this kind of situation. Nachlass | ...
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From 5 to 7 April 2024 in Youlgrave, Derbyshire This new annual festival brings together klezmer enthusiasts and professionals to share their enthusiasm for this music, its generosity and its sharing. The festival takes place in the beautiful village of Youlgrave, a place that combines inspiration from nature with a reappropriation of time. KlezNorth | A festival of Klezmer music, dance and song
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From 9 February to 26 May 2024 at the Galerie Eric F. Ross This exhibition highlights the work of German-Jewish author Curt Bloch, written between August 1943 and April 1945 while in hiding in the Netherlands. His poems, written in Dutch and German, were collected together in a booklet, dealing with the war and the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime, but also with the attitude of the ...
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From 25 January to 30 June 2024 at the former Kriegshaber synagogue This exhibition, organised in partnership with Dagesh and the Augsburg Jewish Museum, presents the work of nine international Jewish artists. This event focuses on the theme of new perspectives in their work of a changing world. They invite visitors to ask themselves questions about their place in this societal upheaval and ...
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1 February 2024 at Hebraïca In partnership with the Institut Universitaire d’Etudes Juives de Toulouse, cultural events are organised on a regular basis. These include a lecture by Isy Morgensztern on Rhenish Hasidism, the Languedoc and Spanish Cabala, mysticism and many other themes. À la une | hebraica (hebraica-toulouse.com)
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At the CHRD This exhibition devoted to the great hero of the Resistance allows us to (re)discover the man through the eyes of those who knew him or studied him. These include friends and family, fellow Resistance members and even opponents. Numerous documents are used, ranging from his childhood, his professional career before the war and his involvement in the Resistance. Videos are also ...
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3 December 2023 at the Shoah Memorial On the occasion of the publication of the book “Jewish History of France” by Sylvie-Anne Goldberg, the theme of the memorial approach to the Shoah in France will be discussed. As Simone Veil pointed out in her autobiography, there was little or no room for survivors’ voices in the aftermath of the war. With the passage of time, and the ...
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20 January 2024 at the Medem Library How was the body perceived and presented by the Yiddish press over time, the time of the body and the press according to the generations of authors and cartoonists? The evening devoted to this theme at the Medem Library, with curator Natalia Krynicka, will attempt to answer this question through the presentation of numerous archives. There will also be ...
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16 October 2023 at the GIL This lecture, organised in collaboration with the ORT Asnières Institute’s Alumnis, will enable participants to relive the life of the numerous communities at the time of the Temple of Jerusalem, at the crossroads of civilisations and religions. It will also look back at the fabulous archaeological discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. GIL – Conférence de Jacques ...
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3 October 2023 at 12.15pm at the Great Synagogue Beth Yaacov Many writers regularly take part in these meetings organised by the Community. They talk about their latest literary works relating to Jewish culture, and take part in discussions with the public and the journalists who host these events. Other events are scheduled for 12 December 2023, 13 February 2024 and 9 April 2024. T’es ...
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From 9 to 11 October 2023 at the Gregorian University in Milan This conference is organised by five international institutions: the Cardinal Bea Centre at the Pontifical University of Rome; the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; the Centre for Jewish-Catholic Studies at Saint Leo University in ...
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From 22 to 27 December 2023 in Birmingham Probably one of the greatest success stories of contemporary English Judaism, the concept of Limmud has flourished all over the world. So it was in England that it was born, with a few volunteers keen to present and share the different cultural facets of Judaism. The end-of-year festival is the biggest, attracting thousands of people from England and ...
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