Artists in the Archives

Until April 30th 2021 Over summer 2020, we paired up some of our Artists’ Network to talk about how they re-imagine archives in their work. We asked them to tell us about what inspired them to use personal (family) archives or institutional (museum) archives in their work, what are the responsibilities or struggles of working with archives, and how archives have enriched their practice. The ...

I offer you the birds / I offer you the birds

Audiovisual installation by Marta Marín-Dòmine Until May 2, 2021 An artistic proposal conceived as a gesture of recognition for one of the perceptions shared by many survivors of the Nazi camps: never having seen a bird fly over the fields. The installation, in addition to being a symbolic offering, also wants to show that any act of memory is a failed attempt to recover an event as it was ...

The genocide of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire

Online exhibition until July 11, 2021 The Shoah Memorial wishes to commemorate the 106 anniversary of the Armenian genocide, the precursor of 20th century violence and mass crimes, but which continues to be the subject of denial. In the favorable context of the First World War, the dictatorial and ultra-nationalist regime of the Union and Progress Committee at the head of the Ottoman Empire, ...

Yiddish Summer Weimar

Summer of 2021 Greetings! We’re in the midst of preparing another open air version of Yiddish Summer Weimar. Between mid-July and Aug 21st, 2021, with the help of the town of Weimar and its beautiful squares and parks, we’re planning another inspiring summer of Yiddish culture, language and music – all outdoors and taking every precaution to avoid the further spread of Covid-19. Here’s ...

Series of lectures “Rashi teaches us”

From April 6 to June 1, 2021 April 6: Presentation of the book “The Medicine of Rashi. For a humanist approach to care ”by doctor Ariel Toledano. April 13 and 20: “Learning Freedom” by Rosine Cohen. May 11: Presentation of the book “The first word ‘In the beginning …” by Pierre-Henry Salfati. May 25: Conference by Liliane Vana. June 1: Closing conference by ...

Historical Tour – Exciting Perspectives

Reopening of the exhibition March 26th, 2021 A video installation in the Libeskind Building – Drummerrsss created specifically for the exhibition by Israeli artist Gilad Ratman – is the prelude to walking through the axes and ascending the impressive staircase to the exhibition rooms, where a sculpturally designed welcome point invites visitors to engage. The subsequent tour of the ...

Yevgeny Khaldei. Photographer of liberation

12 May to 01 Nov 2021 The exhibition presents works by Yevgeny Khaldei, who accompanied the Red Army as an official war reporter during the liberation of Vienna. He was experienced enough to know what photos would be regarded in Moscow as ideologically acceptable and was thus able to take the official Soviet picture the liberation of Vienna: a group of soldiers carrying machine guns ...

Moritz Julius Bonn – from Hohenems to the crisis of European democracy

Conference and online conversation with Dr. Jens Hacke (Hamburg) Tue May 4, 2021, 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. As a child in Hohenems, he first breathed “an air hostile to customs”, writes the eminent economist, critic of colonialism and fighter for a plural democracy in his autobiography “This is how history is made”. During the summer holidays at his grandfather Marco ...

Jewish-Feminist Positions

Until August 29, 2021 The year 2021 marks “1700 Years of Jewish Life in Germany,” with celebrations to take place throughout the year. The Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia will be letting out its feminine side with the exhibition Shalom Sisters!, a showcase of Jewish-feminist positions both past and present. The exhibition aims to combat clichés and stereotypes by highlighting the historic and ...

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews – through the Global Education Outreach Program invites scholars and academic institutions to propose three-day research workshops

Topics: GEOP Interdisciplinary Research Workshops may be devoted to any topic of relevance in Polish-Jewish Studies such as history, cultural studies, art history, public history, museology, memory studies or related subjects. We invite applications which approach the field from new and innovative perspectives and especially encourage interdisciplinary and comparative research. ...

“Where Art Thou? Gen 3:9” Temporary exhibition for the 80th anniversary of the closure of the Warsaw Ghetto

Until April 25, 2021 On November 16, 1940, the Warsaw ghetto was closed. 80 years ago, the city was divided into two parts by a wall. Jews trapped in the ghetto were separated from information, their relatives, verdure, trees or the view of the sky to the horizon. The exhibition „Where Art Thou? Gen 3:9” symbolically refers to this moment. The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, ...

Concerts at the Marc Chagall Museum

CYCLE OF 6 CONCERTS, FROM NOVEMBER 2020 TO APRIL 2021 Nice Philharmonic Orchestra. A coproduction of the Opéra de Nice and the 20th century national museums of the Alpes-Maritimes Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 31, Opus 110 Beethoven, Sonata for violin and piano No. 5 opus 24 “Spring” With the performers Hristiana Gueorguieva, violin and Tatiana Smelova, piano ...

Rwanda 1994: The Tutsi’s genocide

Until April 30, 2021 Considering the history and memory of the Tutsi genocide implies a confrontation with the human and material reality of the massacres. Through a scenographic arrangement aimed at approaching the event through a narration centered on objects, sound, video or written archives, the exhibition allows us to recreate the reality of a past that is still alive in Rwanda, ...

Lucien Wercollier exhibit

Stone, bronze, marble, alabaster, glass, the work of Lucien Wercollier is inscribed in these various materials that he will in turn discover and never leave. A work to (re) discover at the Abbey of Neumünster where the private collection of the Wercollier family is reinstalled in the ambulatory of the Abbey, in a scenography specially designed for the place. If the sculptures of Wercollier ...

Online exhibition devoted to Sarah Moon

Exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris Recognized as a great fashion photographer, active in France and abroad since the end of the sixties, the work of Sarah Moon nevertheless goes beyond this single domain. The tutor introduces the students through a slide show to the singularity of this artist’s work, both photographic and cinematographic, oscillating between ...

Colloquium “Medicine and Judaism”

Organized May 30th, 2021 within the framework of the 800th anniversary of the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier, by the Association Cultuelle Israélite de Montpellier (ACIM) in collaboration with the Institut Universitaire Maïmonide-Averroès-Thomas d’Aquin, initially scheduled for December 6. https://www.maimonide-institut.com/

Heroines in the Jewish tradition

Lecture by Dr Gábor Balázs, historian of ideas The conference examines important aspects of the medieval religious life of Jewish women and, ultimately, holds many surprises. The show will focus on the heroic stories of Jewish women during the Crusades. The lectures are based on a joint analysis and discussion of classical and modern Jewish sources. Although the themes are related, each ...

Jewish cemetery of Volos

Nea Ionia 384 46, Volos

Synagogue of Volos

Mouson 11, Volos 383 33, Greece

Holocaust Memorial of Volos

Dimitriados 1, Volos 383 33

Jewish cemetery of Trikala

Seferi 2, Trikala 421 00, Grèce

Trikala Synagogue

Athanasiou Diakou 27, Trikala 421 00 Tel : + 30 24310 258 34 / 24310 706 22

Volos

A port city, the Jewish community has been present in Volos since the Antiquity era. Probably from the 2nd century BC, ancient tombs attesting according to historians. But the certainties between experts on the exact moment concerning this city are not yet established. Benjamin de Tudela noted the presence of Jews in the region in his famous travel accounts. Over the centuries a number of ...

Trikala

The Jewish presence in the city of Trikala seems to date from the Byzantine period. But there is not much documentation to confirm this presence. The arrival of Jews from Spain following the Inquisition, as well as Jews from Portugal, Hungary and Sicily, increased the number of members of the community. A large part of these Jews worked in the weaving of wool. In 1749, a fire ravaged the city ...

Jewish cemetery of Larissa

2 Akadimias Street, Larissa

Ancient Jewish cemetery of Larissa

Agias Triados Street, Larissa

Synagogue of Larissa

Kentavron 29 – Jewish Martyrs of the Holocaust Square, 41222 Larissa Τel : +30.2410 532965 http://www.jcl.gr

Jewish Cemetery of Chalkis

Evraiko Nekrotafio Chalkidas, Messapion ke Anapafseos, Chalkida 341 00

Synagogue of Chalkis

Kotsou 27, Chalkida 341 00

Larissa

The Jewish presence in Larissa seems to date back to ancient times. Archaeological excavations indicate that this presence has probably been continuous for 1900 years. Following the Spanish Inquisition, Jews settled there. Among them are many scientists, philosophers and entrepreneurs. They thus participated in the development of the whole city. The community is known for its large number of ...