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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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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 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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January 2024 at the Gaon Museum in Vilna Each month, the museum highlights certain objects from its collection. This month, they are books found on Jews killed in Kaunas during the Second World War. These are very old books, probably dating from the turn of the 17th century. They were first kept in the museum after the war, before being placed in the central archives, and finally returned to ...
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28 January 2024 at the Cinemas Massimo in Turin This screening of Marina Piperno and Luigi Faccini’s film is being organised to mark the International Day of Remembrance for Victims of the Holocaust. Based on Marina Piperno’s personal story, the film widens the focus and tackles the question in a general way. That of knowing what to do with these heavy suitcases inherited from ...
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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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10 March 2024 at the Jewish Museum Synagogue Manchester Following the success of its previous concerts in 2022 for Synagogue Nights, the Noga Ritter Trio is returning to Manchester for the release of its new album. The album features songs in English and Hebrew, dealing with contemporary social issues as well as more intimate subjects. Manchester Jewish Museum — Noga Ritter Trio (rescheduled)
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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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3 February 2024 at the Maison de la culture yiddish This reading-performance is based on a work by Debora Vogel, translated by Batia Baum and published in a bilingual edition in 2023. It is presented as part of the “Paris-Berlin, a link for the Yiddish diaspora” season. The poet Debora Vogel (1900-1942) was an important representative of Yiddish and Polish modernism, murdered in ...
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11 February 2024 at the Medem Centre The Song of songs has inspired so many readings and interpretations throughout the ages. This talk by François Ardeven, Chairman of the Medem Centre’s Culture Committee, will attempt to answer the secrets and questions surrounding the text, which is based on Henri Meschonic’s translation of the Five Scrolls, published by Gallimard. But also on ...
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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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4 February 2024 at the Musée Albert Kahn The theme of the 28th edition of this event is “sport and science”. There will be family workshops where children can discover film techniques by creating a flipbook using extracts from films about sport. There will also be a screening of the film “1,2,3 shoot! Sport in the Archives of the Planet”. La Science se livre 2024 ...
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28 January 2024 at the Espace des Cultures Juives in Grenoble Author Judith Elmaleh will be on hand to talk about her novel “Une Reine”. The book is based on the story of her grandmother in Casablanca. The meeting will be accompanied by a brunch and pavlovas from the cookery workshop. ECJ CCJ – Espace des Cultures Juives de Grenoble | Grenoble | Facebook
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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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From 22 January to 1 February 2024 in Grenoble and Lyon The lack of understanding between French and Israeli Jews is legendary and has even inspired cult sketches in both countries. Marco Carmel’s excellent comedy “Paris Boutique” dramatises these differences through the story of a French tourist who arrives in Jerusalem, awkwardly guided by an Israeli woman between the Old ...
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From 22 January to 4 February 2024 in Nice, Marseille, Cannes and Saint-Rémy-de-Provence In Mel Brooks’ film “Silent Movie”, which as its name suggests is silent, Marcel Marceau utters the only word. This magnificent example of Jewish humour that turns all certainties upside down is also to be found in the fine selection of films presented in Provence at the 4th edition of ...
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19 October 2023 at the Galerie Brunei This new edition of the Big Mix is true to its ambition: to showcase contemporary music and London encounters. The evening kicks off with a concert by Senegalese kora player Kadialy Kouyate and klezmer accordionist Josh Middleton, blending West African and East European influences. The evening continues with the quartet of Noga Ritter and her fusion of ...
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