At the CIG on 9 April 2024 Following the warm reception of previous editions by the public, the Jewish Community of Geneva is renewing these literary events linked to Jewish culture. Authors are invited to share their works and contemporary views, before the signing sessions. T’es livre ce midi? Les rencontres littéraires de la CIG – Communauté Israélite de Genève (comisra.ch)
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Exhibition “(post)Jewish… Shtetl Opatow Through the Eyes of Mayer Kirshenblatt”
From 17 May to 16 December 2024 at the Polin Museum This exhibition gives visitors an insight into Jewish life in Opatow through the works of the painter Mayer Kirshenblatt. All those characters who populate the tales of so many Yiddish authors in the 1001 shtetls of Eastern Europe. Although most of these villages have disappeared, literary and artistic memories remain, a wonderful way of ...
Plus d'infosExhibition “Looted: Personal stories about the looting and restitutions of Jewish cultural property”
From 31 May 2024 at the Jewish Museum Amsterdam and the National Holocaust Museum This exhibition allows visitors to see how citizens were stripped of their rights and then their possessions. This is done through the personal stories of eight Jews during the Shoah. Then, the way in which the survivors and the families of the victims tried to recover their stolen property. Exhibition Looted | ...
Plus d'infosExhibition “Shtetl: a lost world”
At the Jewish Museum Oslo This exhibition gives visitors a better understanding of the origins of Jewish migration to Norway at the turn of the 20th century. What were the countries of origin and the reasons for the departures, according to the challenges of history. But also how the Jews adapted their customs and traditions to Norwegian life. Texts, photos, music and objects are presented to ...
Plus d'infosGuided tour of the Memory Trail of Esch
The tour begins at the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights in Esch-sur-Alzette. The tour takes visitors on a journey of remembrance through the town, visiting various places that recall the tragic hours of the Second World War, the resistance of the population to forced Germanisation and the liberation of the town. Among the places visited are the museum, the Place de la Synagogue ...
Plus d'infosExhibition “The Bones of the Earth: Primo Levi and the Mountains”
Until 13 October 2024 at the National Museum of the Mountain This exhibition, organised in partnership with the Centre d’études Primo Levi, allows visitors to discover the link between the author and the mountains. On display are his texts, as well as photos, documents, objects and video extracts from public and private archives, including those of Primo Levi’s family. A strong ...
Plus d'infosThe Betrayed Care, 1944-2024
27 and 28 March 2024 in San Giovanni Park 80 years after the deportation of people from Trieste’s hospitals, a commemorative event is being organised by the Carlo and Vera Wagner Museum, in partnership with the Department of Mental Health and Addictions of the Giuliano Isontina University and the Humanities Department of the University of Trieste. On 28 March 1944, 47 Jews were arrested ...
Plus d'infosTheatre school on the theme of medieval Jewish theatre
At the Museo Sefardi, from 5 to 7 April 2024 Following the success of the previous edition in 2023, the museum is offering to explore medieval Jewish theatre through the music, dance, mime, pantomime and costumes that accompanied these stage performances. The main focus is on satirical plays that mock both the Jews and the conditions in which they lived, which varied from place to place and ...
Plus d'infosExhibition “Flight and persecution in the 20th century”
At the Danish Jewish Museum The museum presents this very special exhibition devoted to the difficult theme of persecution and flight in contemporary European history. It’s about the situations that encouraged Jews to migrate to Denmark, but also about the courage of the Danish people in helping them to escape during the Second World War. The exhibition is accompanied by objects from ...
Plus d'infosExhibition “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 ...
Plus d'infosGuided tour of “Jewish Brussels”
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. ...
Plus d'infosExhibition “Who Cares? Jewish Responses to Suffering”
Until 1 September 2024 at the Jewish Museum Vienna Based on the concepts of tikkun olam and tzedakah, the exhibition examines the approach to suffering through violence, illness, poverty and depression. How this suffering affects others and creates a societal and individual need to respond to it. The exhibition presents the medical, psychological and social programmes carried out in Vienna, ...
Plus d'infosExhibition “The Uncanny: Sigmund Freud and Art”
From 26 April to 4 November 2024 at the Sigmund Freud Museum This exhibition takes up the complex challenge of unravelling the links between psychoanalysis and art, notably through the works of Louise Bourgeois, Heidi Bucher, Gregory Crewdson, Robert Gober, Birgit Jürgensen, Hans Op de Beek, Markus Schinwald, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, Kai Walkowiak and Francesca Woodman. ...
Plus d'infosFilm screening of “Resistance: They Fought Back”
2 May 2024 This film, directed by Paula S. Apsell and Kirk Wolfinger in 2023, deconstructs the myth of Jewish passivity during the war in the face of the Nazi machine of destruction. In fact, far from allowing themselves to be led to their deaths, they were very much involved in an individual and collective struggle, joining their country’s armies and then, following the invasion, ...
Plus d'infosPrinting with Plants: Make It!
4 April 2024 at the Jewish Museum Manchester Spring is a time when nature and its colours are once again making their presence felt in our towns and cities. It’s a time to encourage creativity. This original workshop allows participants to use plants and flowers to create drawings. They will be shown some astonishing previous creations, but they are also encouraged to bring plants that ...
Plus d'infosJewish Museum London @ Swiss Cottage Library
Until 4 April 2024 This major exhibition presents a thousand years of British Jewish history, through well-known objects and others never before shown to the public. The golden ages, but also the painful periods of British Judaism, are presented throughout the rooms, from the settlement of the Jews, their expulsion, their return and integration, but also the present and the challenges to ...
Plus d'infosOt Azoy 2024: Learn Yiddish
From 18 to 23 August 2024 at SOAS The Jewish Music Institute (JMI) is offering you an intense session to discover the world and the Yiddish language. A week of immersion in which beginners and advanced students share their enthusiasm for Yiddish in a variety of workshops. Through music, theatre, poetry and lectures on the past and future of the language. Among the teachers are Shura Lipovsky, ...
Plus d'infosExhibition “Picture Stories: Portraits of Munich Jews”
Before the war, the Jewish community was as diverse as other European Jewish communities. With its characters, personal experiences, professional achievements… This exhibition presents characters as diverse as a child in a sailor suit, a woman in a beret with very thick sleeves, and a rabbi reading a prayer book. These are works that have been found over time, and we often don’t ...
Plus d'infosExhibition “Mirjam Pressler: Writing her Fate”
From 19 April to 1 September 2024 at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt Mirjam Presseler (1940-2019) was a great translator, notably of the Diary of Anne Frank and of Israeli works by Amos Oz, Zeruya Shalev, Batya Gur, etc. She was also an author and painter. This exhibition invites visitors to enter her imaginary world and explore their own creativity, pushing back the boundaries. The ...
Plus d'infosExhibition “Sex: Jewish Positions”
From 17 May to 6 October 2024 at the Jewish Museum Berlin It was not only Freud who was interested in the place of sexuality in society and in Judaism. This question is present in biblical texts, but also in other ancient documents, works of art and new forms of expression. The exhibition attempts to address this subject, particularly in the context of the centrality of marriage, procreation ...
Plus d'infosTribute to Lev Rubinstein
8 April 2024 at 8pm at the Maison de la Poésie Inspired by his experience as a librarian, the great texts of Russian literature, the popular language of Muscovites and the exploratory madness of pop art, Lev Rubinstein has left his mark on poetry. In form, by publishing his texts on a series of index cards, and in content, by exploring the emotions and feelings of the opponent of the regime ...
Plus d'infosPresentation of Bernard-Henri Lévy’s book “Israel’s Solitude”
2 April 2024 at the Palais de la Méditerranée in NiceThe philosopher examines the shock provoked by the pogrom of 7 October and the international consequences at various levels. This presentation is part of a national tour that will continue in Marseille on 3 April and Lyon on 4 April.
Plus d'infosHistory of Jewish-Christian dialogue in the 20th century
2 April 2024 at 6.30pm at the Institut Méditerranéen Universitaire Maimonide Pierre-Yves Kirschleger, senior lecturer in contemporary history at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III, presents the evolution of this dialogue over the last century. From the commitment of Christian individuals and institutions to saving Jews during the war, to the work of Jules Isaac and the outcome of ...
Plus d'infosSamuel Ackerman exhibition
From 14 March to 20 April 2024 at the Galerie Schwab Beaubourg From Mukachevo to Parisian bohemia by way of Jerusalem, Samuel Ackerman combines cultures and softly installs his works on nature, like his Golem in the middle of the Negev desert. He invites us to try and capture what lies between heaven and earth, these signs of life and survival, these encouragements to joy and to surpass ...
Plus d'infosExhibition “Political Chagall politique, the cry of freedom”
From 1 June to 16 September 2024 at the Musée national Marc Chagall Exile, wars, pogroms, the Shoah… so many painful pages through which the painter has passed in the 20th century since his childhood in Vitebsk. His art enabled him to respond to horror, to perpetuate the memory of people from his childhood and those close to him, and to give new colour to the beautiful pages of history ...
Plus d'infosOpening of the exhibition “1994: The genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda”
4 April 2024 at 7pm at the Shoah Memorial On the occasion of the 30th commemoration of the genocide, this conference aims to take stock of the state of knowledge, understanding and deepening of the duty of history and remembrance. It will be attended by historians Jean-Pierre Chrétien and Marcel Kabanda, and will be moderated by the great reporter Patrick de Saint-Exupéry. Mémorial de la ...
Plus d'infosSholem Aleykhem, 108th anniversary of his death
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 ...
Plus d'infosExhibition “Newcomers”
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 ...
Plus d'infosConference “The Manna: Ecology, Judaism and Biodiversity”
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 ...
Plus d'infosVisits to the Maison Zola and the Musée Dreyfus
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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