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Until 21 April 2024 at the mahJ Thanks to Pierre de Girord’s donation of 400 photographs and documents to the mahJ, visitors will be able to appreciate the fascinating Jewish history of Greece’s mythical city. The works are all the more interesting in that they combine the golden age of Thessaloniki’s Jewish community with the beginnings of photography, as artists and ...
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Until 13 December 2023 at the National University Library in Strasbourg David the warrior king and Solomon the man who built the Temple in Jerusalem. How have these two great kings of Israel, key figures in the Bible, been perceived over time? This is what this exhibition is all about, showing the extent to which they are present not only in artistic works but also in the collective ...
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Until 8 January 2024 at the Chagall Museum This three-part exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Musée Chagall, created on the artist’s birthday, 7 July 1973, when it hosted the Biblical Message cycle. To mark the occasion, contemporary artists and writers share their readings of Chagall’s paintings, with a host of events organised on 7 July 2023 and continuing, as the ...
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From 1 December 2023 to 25 February 2024 at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de la Haute Garonne Spirou, a well-known character in Belgian comics, is plunged into the terrible period of the Occupation. The daily life of the Brussels teenager during the Second World War is examined in the work of Emile Bravo. His motivations and doubts in the face of the Nazi war machine, and ...
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Until 3 March 2024 at the Shoah Memorial Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Riss was sent by the newspaper to cover this historic trial. It was a long wait for a senior Vichy official to be brought to justice, and many survivors were able to testify. The 400 drawings by Riss are on display at the Memorial, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in this moment and to understand, with the stroke of a ...
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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first retrospective devoted to Joann Sfar in France, features almost 250 plates and drawings, many of them previously unpublished.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 hundreds of works never leaves his notebook, alternating words and sketches, drawings and observations. From The Rabbi’s Cat to Little Vampire, from his early work with Marjane Satrapi and Riad ...
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Until 28 January 2024 at the Drancy Shoah Memorial Ginette Kolinka bears witness and accompanies groups of schoolchildren to Auschwitz, where she was deported at the age of 19. She was deported with her father, brother and nephew, who were all murdered there. Following a visit to Birkenau in October 2020, in the company of journalist Victor Matet and cartoonist Jean-David Morvan, an album ...
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Until 8 July 2024 This bold exhibition tackles the complex question of how to share the memory of the Second World War to children. The Museum invites parents and children to explore four stories imagined by four authors and illustrators of children’s books. The themes stories chosen to embody the different themes are On Resistance:”Le sac à dos” by Géraldine Alibeu; On ...
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Until 23 December 2023 at the Montluc Prison National Memorial This exhibition, produced by the Association des rescapés de Montluc (Association of Montluc survivors), provides a better understanding of the individual itineraries of the internees who were murdered or disappeared in the prison between 1943 and 1944. The exhibition uses the historic sites in Montluc where these people were ...
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At the CHRD in Lyon 80 years after the death of the Resistance leader, this exhibition at the CHRD provides an opportunity to learn more about the man through the eyes of those who knew or studied him. Testimonies from relatives, witnesses and supporters, as well as detractors. Photos and written documents take visitors through the stages of his life, from his childhood to his arrest. A film ...
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Until 23 December 2023 at the European Centre of Deported Resistance Members at Natzwiller-Struthof This exhibition, produced in partnership with the University of Strasbourg, highlights the well-known and lesser-known links between the medical faculty of the Reichsuniversität Straßburg and the Natzweiler concentration camp. In particular, the “experiments” carried out on ...
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26 November 2023 at JEM Beaugrenelle A host of authors will be on hand to meet visitors at this latest edition, organised by Evelyne Vitkine and her team. Novels and essays tackling so many Jewish cultural and political themes. There will also be a talk on the iconoclastic American author Philip Roth. The day ends with the award of the “First Novel” prize.
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30 November 2023 at Cercle Bernard Lazare Rabbi Myriam Asckerman-Sommer and philosopher Michaël de Saint-Chéron, authors of the book “Revenir, dialogues sur les figures du retour dans la tradition juive” (Returning, dialogues on the figures of return in the Jewish tradition), will talk about this journey and its complexity. The book is published by Actes Sud. Agenda | Cercle ...
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30 November 2023 at the Association Cultuelle Juive de Nancy Jean-Pierre Sakoun, historian and research engineer at the CNRS, looks back at the life of the famous Resistance fighter. The president of Unité Laïque has written extensively on current affairs from a secular and republican perspective. He was also behind the fight for the pantheonisation of Mélinée and Missak Manouchian, which ...
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Until 16 June 2024 at the JHI This exhibition is devoted to the work of Isaac Celniker, born in Warsaw in 1923 and a survivor of the concentration camps during the Shoah. After the war, he studied painting and moved to Paris in 1957, where he died in 2011. The day before he left for France, he had created illustrations for Yiddish publications. These drawings, which have a strong ...
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Until 31 March 2024 at the Jewish Museum Amsterdam The museum is devoting an exhibition to the American artist Sol LeWitt, presenting four huge wall drawings, as well as sculptures and archives. The emphasis is on his relationship with the Netherlands. Dutch institutions played a major role in his work in the 1970s, with his first exhibition taking place at the municipal museum in The Hague. ...
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From 2 March to 26 May 2024 at the Museum Rembrandthuis This original exhibition highlights the links between Rembrandt’s work and the Amsterdam theatre scene of his time. The famous painter seems to have been greatly inspired by theatrical staging and the presentation of characters. Rembrandt’s work does not show the range of feelings that explode onto the canvas, but rather the ...
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26 November 2023 at the Oslo Jewish Museum Every year on this date, the museum commemorates the deportation of Norwegian Jews during the Second World War. Inger-Lise Rothschild Grusd fled to Sweden six months after her parents, hiding first in Norway with anonymous people. As an adult, she set out to find out more, and in particular to find those who had saved her. She told her story in a ...
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16 January 2024 at the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights Claude Marx, who is in charge of the archives of the Consistoire israélite, worked on the Commission for the Spoliation of Jewish Property in Luxembourg. In this talk, he looks back on his life as a child hiding in a town in the Berry region in France during the war, and on his commitment to the memory of the Shoah. Claude ...
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At the Riga Jewish Community House Students from the Jurmala School of Art are exhibiting their work in the Riga Jewish Community House. An initiative in keeping with the tradition of this art school, where artists study the history, culture and art of a country in order to create works of art. More than 200 schoolchildren took part in the project. Exhibition of works of the Jurmala Art ...
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23 January 2024 at the Museo Ebraico di Trieste The museum is organising the presentation of historian Giorgio Fabre’s book devoted to this sad era. The book was published by Il Mulino. The evening will provide an opportunity to discuss contemporary research into the anti-Semitism of that period, when Italy was ruled by Mussolini’s Fascist regime. The evening is organised by ...
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Until 4 February 2024 at MEIS Born in Nice in 1939 to Italian parents from Ferrara, Leo Contini Lampronti grew up and studied in Rome and Milan. He moved to Israel in 1967 with his wife Marcella Mayer and their two children Saul and Rosa. Hava, their third child, was born in Tel Aviv. An industrialist, he increasingly devoted himself to his passion for art and became a painter after a long ...
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21 November 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Ireland Singer Carl Nelkin performs the repertoire of the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music, accompanied by pianist Maja Elliott. The Society was founded in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century by a group of composers who wanted to preserve Jewish folk music while creating a special genre of Jewish classical music. This original idea ...
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Until 21 January 2024 at the Museo Sefardi Following the depopulation of Spain, many musical instruments were abandoned. Artists have seized upon them to bring them back to life through works that require activation. In which components are introduced into the case, giving rise to original performances in each venue. In this case, the case symbolises protection, value and the impregnation of ...
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Until 26 May 2024 at the Jewish Museum of Vienna While war rages in the Middle East and Europe, the museum focuses on the definition of peace as the success of a civilisation. Jewish perspectives on notions of peace, but also the struggles waged in the name of these values, such as the fight for equal rights during the march for Civil Rights in America and feminism. The museum stresses the ...
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3 December 2023 at the Manchester Jewish Museum This documentary presents a figure as little known as he was influential: Fred Stein. The young man was forced to flee Germany when the Nazis came to power. He discovered photography in Paris, a city that welcomed many refugee artists and inspired aspiring artists. His memorable photographs include portraits of Hannah Arendt and Albert Einstein. ...
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Until 5 January 2024 at the Jewish Museum London This original concept allows different voices to be heard on a wide range of subjects. Community leaders, but also people with questions or expressing curiosity about these issues. This approach is inspired by the desire to honour London’s Jewish history and memory, but also to find answers to the challenges of tomorrow. Pitch Up: ...
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Until 17 March 2024 at the Jewish Museum in Munich In 1939, a decree was issued requiring Munich’s Jews to hand over their jewellery and other precious metals, including Sabbath candlesticks, to the local authorities. These discriminatory measures, which began when the Nazis came to power in 1933, became increasingly violent and led to the Shoah. This exhibition gives visitors an ...
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Until 14 January 2024 at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt With the help of numerous films, the exhibition provides a better understanding of the perception and representation of Jews in 20th century cinema. A look at Jewish directors on the fringes, actors such as Lilli Palmer and Peter Lorre, and film producers. This complex research was carried out by Lea Wohl von Haselberg and Johannes ...
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Until 1 December 2023 at the Augsburg Jewish Museum This participatory approach enables schoolchildren in Augsburg to understand the meaning of the Jewish New Year and to use it as inspiration to redecorate the museum. From tradition to the different customs in the countries where Jews live, this wonderful encounter has been welcomed by all. The schoolchildren also designed greetings cards ...
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