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Medem Centre Open Days
Registration for courses and workshops on 5 and 8 September 2024 Teachers and facilitators will be on hand to welcome prospective students and introduce them to the Yiddish, Hebrew, Judeo-Spanish ...
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Listening to their voices: 30th commemoration of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda
2 June 2024 at the Shoah Memorial To mark the 30th anniversary of the Tutsi genocide, the Memorial has been organising a number of historical, literary and musical events over the past few ...
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Book festival
8 June 2024 at the House of Yiddish Culture A Book Fair will bring together a host of authors and translators, including Sylvie-Anne Goldberg, Annette Wieviorka, Talila, Virginie Linhart and ...
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Shavuot Study Night
From 11 to 12 June 2024 at JEM Copernic The theme chosen for this night of Shavuot is ‘Am Israel Haï’, marking the famous Jewish resilience, the will to make life triumph over mortifying wills. ...
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Shavuot Study Night
From 11 to 12 June 2024 at JEM Beaugrenelle On 11 June at 7.30pm, the public will be welcomed until the early hours of the morning of 12 June, concluding the many discussions with a service and ...
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Encounters at the Cercle Bernard Lazare
16 and 23 May 2024 The Cercle is offering two meetings this month. The first takes place on 16 May with author Jean-Charles Szurek on the theme of ‘Jewish Resistance fighters who acted for the ...
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Musical reading-performance “Mannequins”
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 ...
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Dia(s)porama – looks at international Jewish cinema
From 22 January to 5 February 2024 at the Escurial and the Espace Rachi Following the success of its previous editions, the Dia(s)porama Festival is back for a fourth season, taking place in all ...
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Reading Night 2024: the body
20 January 2024 at the Medem Library How was the body perceived and presented by the Yiddish press over time, the time of the body and the press according to the generations of authors and ...
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Exhibition “Joann Sfar. Life drawned”
Until 12 May 2024 at the mahJ This exhibition, the first retrospective devoted to Joann Sfar in France, features almost 250 plates and drawings, many of them previously unpublished. The author of ...
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Musical reading “Not everyone is lucky enough to love gefilte fish”
9 December 2023 at the Medem Centre Words and music accompany the presentation of this travel book about Ashkenazi cuisine, not a parade of recipes but an atmosphere, traditions and experiences. ...
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“Amedeo Modigliani: a painter and his dealer” exhibition
September 20, 2023 to January 15, 2024 at the Orangerie Museum In 1914, through Max Jacob, the young gallery owner and collector Paul Guillaume met Amedeo Modigliani. The artist painted his ...
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Let’s eat! Books to devour, Jewish cuisine to savour
September 3, 2023 at the mahJ Jewish culinary traditions, from the contours of the Mediterranean to the deep villages of Eastern Europe, are the gastronomic palettes around which unforgettable ...
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Exhibition “Chagall at work: drawings, ceramics and sculptures 1945-1970”
October 3, 2023 – February 26, 2024 at the Centre Pompidou Thanks to the generosity of Bella and Meret Mayer, a large number of works have been brought together for this exhibition. They ...
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Conference with Benjamin Stora
September 10, 2023 at 11:30 am at the Centre André Spire The author presents his book The Arrival, dedicated to his passage from Constantine to Paris, from childhood to adulthood. The succession ...
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Paris and Berlin through the yiddish press of Warsaw and New York
Thursday 19 October 2023, from 19:30 to 21:00 This lecture in Yiddish by Eliezer Niborski, organised by the Yiddish Culture House, is part of the “Paris-Berlin, a link for the Yiddish ...
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“Exhibition: Patrick Braoudé, Déclic”
Until 31 July 2023 at Galerie Saphir An astonishing journey into the intimate, the topical and the personified. Whether on Talmudic school benches, sports fields or war grounds, Patrick ...
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Open Days
7 and 10 September 2023 at the Medem Centre These days will provide an opportunity to find out more about the centre and its role in sharing Yiddish culture. ...
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Exhibition “Year 1943: the Warsaw ghetto and the creation of the CDJC”
Until 30 August 2023 at the Shoah Memorial To mark the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in May 1943 and the creation of the CDJC (Centre for Contemporary Jewish Documentation) the ...
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80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
19 April 2023 at the Paris City Hall The commemoration of this act of inestimable courage will take place in the Grands Salons of the Hotel de Ville. How a handful of surviving men and women in ...
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Exhibition “Chagall, Paris – New York”
Until 7 January 2024 at the Atelier des Lumières The immersive adventure continues at the Atelier with the reception and the musical walk on the walls of Marc Chagall’s work. Emphasizing ...
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Screening of the documentary “Our Inner Language” and meeting with Talila
15 April 2023 at the Medem Centre The icon of Yiddish music in France shares her lyrics and views during this exceptional meeting. Unpublished documents tell the story of her personal journey, ...
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Workshop “Picturesque Expressions of Folk Yiddish: Comparative Phrases of Blessings, Curses and Swearing”
February 23, 2023 at the Medem Centre This workshop is led by Salomon Bielasiak by ZOOMTM and follows the one held in January. He will present and translate about twenty Yiddish expressions. ...
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Exhibition “Serge Gainsbourg, the exact word”
Until 8 May 2023 at the Centre Pompidou The Bibliothèque publique d’information (BPI) is one of the most frequented by students and researchers. Between the numerous books chosen and ...
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Conference “General History of the Bund”
12 November 2022 at 15:30 at the Medem Centre This literary meeting around Henri Minczeles’ book on the history of the Bund. A rich and diverse history according to generations and ...
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An evening of laughter
Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 7:30 pm at the House of Yiddish Culture If a consensual definition of Jewish humour is difficult to find, the same is true for one of its major influences, Yiddish ...
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Exhibition “Spirou in the turmoil of the Shoah”
From 9 December 2022 to 30 August 2023 at the Shoah Memorial Four generations have travelled far and wide since childhood thanks to the magazines Tintin and Spirou and all their characters, ...
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Exhibition “History of the Sephardim, Conversos and their descendants”
This exhibition is organised by the European Centre for Judaism, in partnership with the ANU Museum in Tel Aviv and the Institute for Marrano Research. It presents the astonishing and very ...
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