Lecture at the Jewish Museum in Stockholm “You and I were born into Judaism. You when so many Jewish roads still seemed open, I when so many Jewish roads had been closed. You when there was so much to break, to make up for and to breathe new life into, I when so much Jewish life was wiped out and the question could be seriously asked whether Jewishness was still possible.” This is ...
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Simchat Muzika / Magdalena Maslanova, Pavel Ciprys a Matej Polasek
Concert at the Maisel Synagogue October 7th, 2021 A concert given by leading Czech musicians – members of the Czech Philharmonic and the Czech National Theatre Orchestra – featuring works by Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) and Gideon Klein (1890–1959). Tickets may be purchased in advance at the Maisel Synagogue and at the Jewish Museum’s Information and Reservation Centre (Maiselova 15, ...
Plus d'infosAt the Crossroads: The Jewish Community of Corfu
Digital exhibition created by the Jewish Museum of Greece, to frame the commemorative events organised by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, on the occasion of the German Presidency of the IHRA. The exhibition offers a brief historical overview of a distinct Jewish community that has thrived at the crossroads of East and West and shared in the turbulent history of such a ...
Plus d'infosCopenhagen Culture Night
This year’s Copenhagen Culture Night will be something very special! For the first time we don’t have a museum you can visit, but that shouldn’t stop us from offering many different and exciting activities – both on land and at sea. A very special fact is that the fishing cutter Elisabeth docks at Den Sorte Diamant. Elisabeth was one of the many fishing cutters that, ...
Plus d'infosMonthly seminar on Yiddish literature: Magic in Yiddish Culture
Yiddish literature seminar under the direction of Yitskhok Niborski and Natalia Krynicka, with the participation of Sharon Bar-Kochva. This season’s theme is magic in Yiddish literature. The seminar will be held in Yiddish and in person. 17 October 2021 at the House of Yiddish Culture – Medem Library ...
Plus d'infosTravelling: a history of the Jewish people
An exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Girona on a journey of thirty-eight centuries, through various paths that border practically every corner of the world and span from 1730 A.D. to the present day. It is the story of a whole people, told through a thousand physical and social, political and conceptual paths. It is the story of the paths that the Jewish people has built over time, ...
Plus d'infosRashi and his school
Temporary exhibition and study day at the Comtes de Champagne Campus Thursday 3 March 2022: Opening of the exhibition “The School of Rashi: manuscripts and glossaries, between interpretation, languages and narratives”. In partnership with the Campus Comtes de Champagne of the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, the Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Modèles ...
Plus d'infosRainier Lericolais Leah’le, the voice of the Dibbuk
By Pascale Samuel, curator and curator of the modern and contemporary collection of the mahJ Through drawing, music and installation, Rainier Lericolais (born in 1970) has created a body of work nourished by the historical avant-gardes. His discovery of the painter and decorator Boris Aronson (Kiev, 1899 – New York, 1980), and the sets created by this artist for the Yiddish theatre, ...
Plus d'infosWe dreamed of nothing but Enlightenment: Moses Mendelssohn in His Time
Exhibition shown at the Jewish Museum of Berlin. Immigrant, Enlightenment philosopher, and self-made intellectual in his time, Moses Mendelssohn was already a European celebrity and he remains a central figure in German Judaism to this day. The exhibition tells of Mendelssohn’s life in Berlin and shows him as a figure who integrated polarizing forces in the midst of historical upheaval and ...
Plus d'infosOur Courage. Jews in Europe 1945-1948
The Jewish Museum Frankfurt opens its second temporary exhibition. “Our Courage” is the first exhibition to explore the post-war Jewish experience of flight, expulsion, insurance and reconstruction from a pan-European and transnational perspective. In 1933 there were about 10 million Jews in Europe and the Soviet Union. About 3.5 million survived the years of National Socialist ...
Plus d'infosTravelling exhibitions
The Jewish Museum of Bologna makes some of the exhibitions organised over the years available to museums, cultural institutions, schools, libraries, synagogues and other public places. In some cases, catalogues are available. Through the Museum Library, it will also be possible to receive bibliographic information for possible research leads. Information on the contents, technical notes, loan ...
Plus d'infosThe Jewish year – For Everything there is a Season
Through the years, Jewish life has been closely tied to the celebration and marking of the weekly Sabbath and the many feast and holy days throughout the year. Celebration of these days has been carefully worked out according to the Jewish calendar and are an important backdrop to living and identifying oneself as a Jew.The exhibition shows the various feast and holy days’ distinctive ...
Plus d'infosWilhelm Sasnal: Such a landscape
On 17 June 2021, an exhibition of one of Poland’s most outstanding contemporary artists, Wilhelm Sasnal, opened at the POLIN Museum. It will include paintings and drawings depicting a familiar, if slightly distant, landscape and familiar figures. It is a landscape after the Holocaust. The relationship of the eye and memory, of touch and forgetting, of the search for language and the ...
Plus d'infosBody expression workshop “Connecting with Toledo”
To close the month, we propose an inclusive day aimed at centres and associations that work with people with disabilities. In the rooms of the Museum, we will develop imagination and fantasy through easily solved dynamics, creating a climate of confidence and disinhibition of the body. Movement will help us to create, express and communicate emotions and feelings, connecting us with Toledo ...
Plus d'infosJudaFest 2021: A food, a story
We Jews are good at two things: eating and talking. That’s why we thought we’d organize an event around that! Where, by the way, we don’t even talk, but well-known public figures bring their favourite recipes and talk about them. The menu will consist of these dishes that can be eaten, while these personal stories come to life on the Judafest stage in the form of readings, ...
Plus d'infosA Different Gurlitt
On 9 June 2021, an exhibition A Different Gurlitt opened in the Samuel Bak Museum (at Naugarduko St. 10, Vilnius), which is a division of the Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History, the core of which is made of the never-before-seen works by the expressionist of the early 20th century, Cornelia Gurlitt, and comes from the collection of her nephew, Cornelius Gurlitt, which was ...
Plus d'infosErnst Benedikt – a European destiny. An exhibition of the Valiske Association at the Jewish-Alsatian Museum
Ernst Martin Benedikt was an Austrian journalist, writer, poet, publicist, editor and painter. In May 1939 Benedikt fled with his family first to England and then to Sweden. It was not until 1962 that he returned to Austria permanently. His interviews with leading post-war politicians such as Jan Masaryk, Stanley Baldwin and Herbert C. Hoover caused a sensation. From June 20th to November ...
Plus d'infosPhotos in a Jar: The unusual story of survival and post-war returns of Ryszard Ores.
Guided theme tour with Małgorzata Fus. Starting point: in front of the building of Hala Targowa (14 Grzegórzecka St.) This story has everything: Jewish ancestors – who were Polish patriots fighting with Piłsudski for Polish independence, tickets for a ferry to America, kosher sausages, love, war, and the Shoah. Above all, this story also includes photographs from the Krakow Ghetto, hidden in ...
Plus d'infosJewish footprints in the north
You can now read about the Buchmann family and their life in Trondheim or other traces of Norwegian Jewish life in the north. The family ran several shops and was a visible feature of the cityscape before and after the war. You can find many more stories on jodiskefotspor.no. Feel free to take a closer look by searching for the people and families you want to know more about. If you have your ...
Plus d'infos“Works on Paper” by Galila Hollander-Barzilaï
Exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Belgium “Works on Paper” offers an incursion into the teeming universe of Galila Hollander-Barzilaï, a Belgian collector born in Tel Aviv. For the past fifteen years, this extraordinary personality has been assembling works of contemporary art in a collection that tells the story of her own life: the works she has assembled reveal a compelling ...
Plus d'infosCheetham Cultural Festival
Every September the people, communities and neighbourhoods of Cheetham Hill get together to throw open its doors to provide free food, music and activities for Cheetham Hill residents. From the Football Museum to Abraham Moss Library there are venues to visit all across Cheetham Hill – there’s even an organised bus tour on the Sunday! Head down to the opening ceremony on Thu 23 September at ...
Plus d'infosBerlin
European Days of Jewish Culture 2021 and other special events
Interview with Hetty Berg, Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin Jguideeurope: Which local political and cultural institutions participate in organizing the jubilees? Hetty Berg: We are organizing our own exhibitions and events which tie in with this year’s jubilees. This year, we will also celebrate 20 years of Jewish Museum Berlin during the summer with a cultural festival “Kultursommer zum ...
Plus d'infosEsch-sur-Alzette
European Days of Jewish Culture 2021 and other special events
Interview with David Weis, President of the Liberal Jewish community of Esch-sur-Alzette Jguideeurope: Can you share with our readers some of the recent cultural events organized in Esch-sur-Alzette? David Weis: We organized a concert (both online and in situ) on Yom Haatzmaut (300 people). We organized a commemoration for the international day of Holocaust remembrance as well as the ...
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Piazza Giuseppe De Nava, 26, 89123 Reggio Calabria
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Serrastretta synagogue
Vico I Indipendenza, 18, 88040 Serrastretta Home
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Santo Stefano, 88065 Catanzaro
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Strada provinciale Ofantina, Venosa
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The Jewish presence in Reggio seems to date from the 4th century. However, official documents tracing this presence date from the 12th century. As in various towns in the region, the Jews worked mainly in the field of silk and wool. The first Hebrew books printed in Europe were printed in Reggio by Abraham Garton in 1475. The first Hebrew commentaries on the Hagaddah were also published there ...
Plus d'infosSerrastretta
In 2007, this small town in Calabria inaugurated the first synagogue opened in the region in 500 years. A project made possible thanks to the dedication of Barbara Aiello who was the first female rabbi in Italy, since 2004. Born in the United States, her family was originally from this city. Barbara Aiello’s father, who grew up there, participated as a soldier in the liberation of ...
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