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JMI Youth Big Band Live at Jamboree
25 May 2025, 12.30pm at King’s Cross The JMI Youth Big Band, a group of young jazz artists, takes to the stage under the baton of Sam Eastmond, a celebrated conductor who has worked with ...
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Exhibition “The Riga Ghetto in the Drawings of Aleksandra Beļcova”
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 ...
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Exhibition “The contours of otherness”
Until 27 October 2024 at the Jewish Museum in Venice The Jewish Ghetto of Venice is hosting an exhibition on the themes of migration and encounters with others. This theme inspired ten ...
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Exhibition “Monuments to the Resistance: Art in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943-1956)”
Until 1 October 2023 at the Centre Emanuel Ringelblum The exhibition will show how the Jewish uprising was perceived by post-war artists. A wide variety of objects in a wide variety of styles, ...
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80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
16 April 2023 at the Jewish Cultural Association of Nancy A lighting of candles in memory of the victims of the Shoah and songs from the Kaddish, El Maleh Rahamim and the Song of the Partisans ...
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Ostrava
The city of Ostrava is best known for its economic activity. It was one of the great coal mining regions and a major ironworks. The Jewish presence in the city was rather late, being limited by ...
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Osoblaha
Osoblaha is a Silesian village popular with contemporary tourists for its medieval buildings. The Jewish presence probably dates back to this period and was quite stable over the centuries until ...
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Olomouc
Olomouc was the capital of Moravia from the 14th to the 17th centuries and a major trading town at that time. The Jewish presence is very old and seems to date from the 11th century. Documents ...
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Kojetin
Kojetin is a Moravian town that has been known as a commercial crossroads for centuries and now hosts many cultural events. The Jewish presence in Kojetin seems to date back to at least the 13th ...
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Brno
Brno is the capital of Moravia. The Jewish presence dates back to at least the 13th century, when the local authorities invited them to settle there without the discriminatory measures ...
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Austerlitz
Austerlitz, Slavkov u Brna in Czech, is a town most famous for the Napoleonic battle of 1806. The Jewish presence in Moravia is one of the oldest, with a Jewish cemetery dating from the 12th ...
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Chodova Plana
Chodova Plana is a town known as an old trade route, for its mines and brewery and the long-standing fights between nobles to rule it. The Jewish presence probably dates from the end of the 16th ...
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Zatec
Zatec is an ancient royal city, dating back to at least the 11th century. The Jewish presence in Zatec is very old, dating back to at least the 14th century. However, following attacks and ...
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Votice
Votice is a fairly old town in Bohemia. The Jewish presence dates back at least to the 16th century, with a document from 1538 referring to the town’s Jewish cemetery. About ten Jewish ...
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Usti Nad Labem
Usti Nad Labem is a town of Czech nobility and is known for its chemical industry. The Jewish presence in Usti Nad Labem dates back to at least the 16th century, but was very irregular, as it was ...
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Mlada Boleslav
Mlada Boleslav is an old Bohemian town that developed in the industrial age thanks to the automobile industry. The Jewish presence dates back to at least the 15th century, according to written ...
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Klatovy
Klatovy is a Bohemian town known for its old markets on the roads to nearby larger towns. The Jewish presence in Klatovy has been documented since the 14th century, but was not very present in ...
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Carlsbad
Carlsbad, Karlovy Vary in Czech, is a city famous for its spa complex and its festival. The Jewish presence in Carlsbad was “only intermittent” until the middle of the 19th century, ...
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Benesov
Benesov is a town in Bohemia, whose name is derived from its medieval rulers. The Jewish presence dates back to at least the 15th century, making it one of the oldest in the region. Nevertheless, ...
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Bechyne
Bechyne is a fortified town in the Bohemian region near the Luznice River. It dates back to the Middle Ages and was an important regional town. It is best known today as a thalassotherapy centre. ...
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Verona
The second largest city in the Veneto region in terms of economic activity, Verona is also known for its beautiful ancient cultural and religious buildings and its university. The first documents ...
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Treviso
Close to Venice, Treviso is a city known for its commercial activities and its agricultural production, especially in wine and horticulture. The documents that attest to the Jewish presence are ...
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Piove di Sacco
Piove di Sacco was built in Roman times and fortified in the Middle Ages. The Jewish presence is attested by documents dated from the end of the 14th century. They concern the arrival of Jews who ...
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Este
Este is a very old town, which served as a military base and was rebuilt around a castle following a destruction. It reached its peak during the Venetian era. Documents dating from 1389 attest to ...
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Ghetto San Lorenzo
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Urbania
A relatively new town for the region, Urbania was built under the name of Casteldurante in the Middle Ages and then adopted its present name in memory of Pope Urban VIII. Documents dating from ...
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San Severino
San Severino is a Roman town with architectural traces of the different periods, especially the medieval and Renaissance ones. Administrative documents attest to a Jewish presence dating back to ...
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Recanati
Recanati is best known for being the birthplace of the poet Giacomo Leopardi, whose name is also very present on the monuments. In particular, Piazza Leopardi with its monument to the poet. The ...
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Osimo
The city of Osimo is a strategically important place and has been the victim of numerous conquests by regional powers over the years. This is evidenced by the very old buildings, churches and ...
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Monterubbiano
The town of Monterubbiano is situated at a high altitude and is very old, predating the Roman period. The medieval part of the town is still significant, as evidenced by its buildings, numerous ...