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6 April 2025, at 13:45 On this guided tour, the Maison de la Culture Juive, in partnership with the CCLJ, traces the history of Jewish life in Brussels. From the interwar period, with the arrival of Eastern European Jews in its working-class districts, to the way in which the city faced up to Nazi policies during the Shoah, with its courageous acts of resistance, particularly by certain ...
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Until 31 December 2025 Since January, many venues, not just the Vienna Jewish Museum, have been hosting a series of events to celebrate its anniversary. In 1895, the museum became the first Jewish museum in the world. Age does not show on the face of its exhibitions and activities, as the museum remains very active and frequently renews its presentations. Exhibition Detail | Jüdisches Museum Wien
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27 March 2025, 6pm at the Manchester Jewish Museum This event is an opportunity to talk with the leading researcher in Jewish studies. He will share his background and what motivated him to devote himself to this field. In particular, the challenges he faced in his approach to Judaism, having been born into a Protestant family in Northern Ireland. And how he helped to establish this field of ...
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23 March 2025, 11am at the Munich Jewish Museum As part of the International Weeks Against Racism 2025, the museum is organising a workshop to raise awareness of the history of Munich’s Jews. The workshop will use objects from the exhibition as well as textual and photographic sources. In particular, the difficult questions of history will be raised, reflecting on the issues, contexts ...
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From 21 March to 16 November 2025 A face shattered by history facing a mirror shattered by the inspiring and creative force of that face… The Jewish Museum Frankfurt is presenting an exhibition on the artist Léo Maillet (1902-1990). Born Leopold Meyer in Frankfurt, where he began his studies before having to provide for his family’s material needs, he left Germany after the Nazis ...
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24 March 2025, 5pm at the Jewish Museum Berlin The National Library of Israel is lending 15 drawings by Kafka from its archives to the Jewish Museum Berlin. To mark the occasion, Stefan Litt, a Kafka expert working at the library, will give a tour of these archives. He will be accompanied by the curator Shelley Harten, with whom they will discuss Kafka’s work and the organisation of ...
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From 24 May to 22 September 2025 Young or old, Marc Chagall kept the same naive and curious eye, questioning himself and eager to learn about and create new artistic paths. After the war, he experimented with stained glass, as shown by his works from Jerusalem to Metz, tapestry, ceramics and mosaics. This was particularly true in sunny Vence when he returned to France in 1949. Between 1958 ...
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Until 30 June 2025 at the Shoah Memorial To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camps, the Shoah Memorial and leading directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano are paying tribute to the last survivors. This is done through a series of five never-before-seen video vignettes devoted to survivors of the camps. Larissa Cain, Judith Elkán, Ginette Kolinka, Yvette Lévy and Léon ...
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Until 30 March 2025 at the Drancy Shoah Memorial Homosexuality was a taboo subject in France until it was decriminalised in 1982, so the historical perspective, particularly during the dark pages of history, was also slow to be shared with the public. The Shoah Memorial in Drancy is hosting an exhibition and meetings on the history of the pink triangle worn by homosexual deportees, a symbol ...
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17 January 2025 at the Swiss Jewish Museum During the Night of the Museums, in which 40 museums and cultural institutions take part from 6 pm to 2 am. Schalom is Hebrew and peace, love and happiness, welcome… and will be the main theme of this night at the Swiss Jewish Museum, featuring Aline Schroth, a ‘Schalom & Salam’ peace meeting and culminating in a Shtetl Blues concert with ...
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From 7 March to 15 September 2025 This exhibition, created to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, highlights the efforts of survivors to rebuild their lives. While for many people the end of the war was a moment of joy, for Jews it was a time of terrible reflection on the suffering and death and the urgent need to rebuild a future for their children far from the ...
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At the Latvian Jewish Museum The main theme of this virtual exhibition is an individual’s behaviour in the face of the tragedy unfolding around them. As such, Latvian artist Aleksandra Beļcova is exhibiting her work as part of the ‘Art and the Holocaust: Reflections for a Common Future’ project. Her drawings included in the ‘Riga Ghetto Series’ and produced after the war and until the ...
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Until 14 January 2025 at the Jewish Museum Venice The guitar of the legendary troubadour Bob Dylan travels the world and his words the ages. Thanks to his words, the artistic itinerary of his teacher, Norman Raeben, between America and Paris has been reconstructed. Around forty of the painter’s works are exhibited in a vast space, tracing his artistic development, his encounters with ...
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Until 31 August 2025 at the Thessaloniki Jewish Museum This exhibition, presented by the museum in partnership with the Jewish community of Thessaloniki, gives visitors a better understanding of the history of the period of occupation in the city thanks to previously unpublished historical documents and, in particular, photographs of German soldiers during the Occupation. The photographs were ...
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From 20 January to 3 February 2025 at the Museo Sefardi From October 2024 to April 2025, the museum will be exhibiting some of the items stored in the prayer room warehouse. The aim is to give visitors the chance to discover rarely-seen pieces. The pieces have been selected by museum staff for their uniqueness and interest. Every Wednesday, they give a short presentation of that week’s ...
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16 January 2025, 6.30pm at the Museo Sefardi As part of the temporary exhibition celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Museo Sefardí, a series of lectures has been scheduled to enlighten participants on the history of the museum and that of Spanish Jewry since the 14th century. This January’s lecture will be given by Ventura Leblic García, a specialist in heraldic genealogy, who will ...
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16 January 2025, 4pm at the Manchester Jewish Museum ‘The Crafty Corner is a space encouraging artistic expression and experimentation. A series of workshops built around objects from Manchester’s Jewish Museum will provide a deeper understanding of an ancient craft that has been lost over time. The workshop both pays homage to it and reintroduces it into the present. In January, the ...
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Until 15 March 2025 at the European Centre of Deported Resistance Members British photographer Michael Kenna has spent fifteen years travelling across Europe to capture the remains of Nazi camps on the continent. His motivation came from seeing a photo of the Auschwitz camp when Kenna was studying in London, and a visit to the Natzweiler concentration camp in 1986. The exhibition features 41 ...
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9 January, 23 January, 6 February and 13 March 2025 On the initiative of Hélène Attali and Judaïsme en Mouvement, discover the great masters of art, from the Renaissance to the present day, with guide Lauranne Corneau. Coming soon, on Thursday 9 January 2025 at 3.20pm, a guided tour of the exhibition ‘Gustave Caillebotte: painting men’ at the Orsay Museum, and on Thursday 23 January at ...
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Until 12 January 2025 at the Saphir Gallery A great master of magic realism, Sergio Birga (1940-2021) travels through cities at the speed of a red sun rising above a city at night to illuminate it, returning from Berlin, New York, Rome or his native Florence to illuminate our dreams and nights. The Saphir Gallery invites us to discover his career and the development of his work from the 1960s ...
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Until 2 March 2025 at the Departemental Museum Albert Kahn For so long, magnificent exhibitions have been held in these gardens, facilitating great encounters between nature and culture. But for those who have not yet visited them, the question remains: who was Albert Kahn? The museum has teamed up with Gallimard Jeunesse to publish a biography of the patron of the arts for young people. To ...
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15 February at 2.30pm at the Museum of the Résistance and the Deportation in Isère Artist Julia Belle leads a workshop paying tribute to women members of the Isère Resistance. Participants in the workshop will take a guided tour of women members of the Resistance, then engrave and print photos of them on tote bags. Portraits de résistantes
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5 February 2025, 2pm at the Departmental Museum of Resistance and Deportation in Haute-Garonne Thanks to a team of specialists, the Departmental Museum of Resistance and Deportation) is shedding light on the many historical realities of the deportation, highlighting the variety of archive collections available. In particular, thanks to the development of research into these sources and the ...
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Until 4 May 2025 at 2.30pm at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère The museum offers a guided tour of its permanent exhibition every first Sunday of the month. The tour takes visitors through the three levels of the museum, providing a better understanding of how the people of Isère lived through the Second World War. The guide takes a chronological and thematic ...
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At the Judeo-Alsatian Museum in Bouxwiller Norbert and Moritz Max Neiger contributed to the glory of their Czech town, Gablonz, by developing the diamond industry there, creating fabulous Art Deco jewellery for the costume jewellery market. The German invasion and annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938 led to the disappearance of most of Bohemia’s Jewish communities. The Neiger family ...
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From 19 September to 31 October at the Saphir gallery The gallery presents the first retrospective of the work of Spanish artist Elisabeth Ollé Curiel. This coincides with the publication of her monograph, ‘La beauté voyageuse’, written by art historian Delphine Durand. Because of her origins, she reinterprets the colours of the Caribbean in an invigorating multicultural expression. Her work ...
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Until 16 March 2025 at the JHI This exhibition has been organised to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the Lodz ghetto. For four years, 200,000 Jews were imprisoned there, both natives of Lodz and those deported from other towns and regions. Many perished from starvation and disease due to the harsh conditions, while others were deported and murdered in the camps. The ...
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At the Musée Judéo-Alsacien Bouxwiller Art Deco and its daring artistic adventures inspired the brothers Norbert and Moritz Max Neiger to create costume jewellery for this brand new market, in response to the post-First World War desire for more sobriety than the expensive jewellery that had previously been paraded. The exhibition tells the story of these designers from the Czech town of ...
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15 September 2024 from 10am at the Beth Yaacov Great Synagogue and the Geneva Liberal Jewish Community (GIL) A wide range of activities will be on offer throughout the day. Starting with a guided tour of Beth Yaacov by historian Jean Plançon, followed by a tasting of traditional Shabbat dishes. The day continues at the GIL with a visit by Rabbi Emeritus François Garaï. There will also be a ...
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Until 30 September 2024 at the Jewish Museum Prague In this year marking 100 years since the death of Franz Kafka, the museum is devoting an exhibition to Israeli artist and typographer Oded Ezer. The exhibition features a parody of a documentary based on Kafka’s character, Gregor Samsa. It plays between ambitions and realities, the lost texts of the fictional author and the preserved ...
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