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Jun
20
Thu
The House of Life: Gold and Stories around the ancient Jewish cemetery of Bologna” @ Bologna Jewish Museum
Jun 20 2019 – Jan 6 2020 all-day
The House of Life: Gold and Stories around the ancient Jewish cemetery of Bologna” @ Bologna Jewish Museum | Bologna | Emilia-Romagna | Italy

A major exhibit at the Bologna Jewish Museum will focus on the city’s “lost” medieval Jewish cemetery:  it was destroyed in 1569 by order of Pope Pius V and was rediscovered  during excavations in 2012-2014.

the exhibit features material found in the graves — including gold, silver, and bronze jewelry incorporating gemstones and amber, as well as other precious artifacts, using them to tell the story of medieval Jewish life in the city.

It was curated and organized by the Bologna Jewish Museum and the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for Bologna and the provinces of Modena, Reggio Emilia and Ferrara, in collaboration with the Jewish Community of Bologna.

See our JHE article about the exhibition

 

Jun
27
Thu
Jewish textiles in Italy @ Uffizi gallery, Florence
Jun 27 – Oct 27 all-day
Jewish textiles in Italy @ Uffizi gallery, Florence | Firenze | Toscana | Italy

The Colours of Judaism in Italy: Precious textiles and fabrics from ancient Jerusalem to contemporary ready-to-wear

The exhibition at the famed Uffizi Gallery explores various aspects of the Jewish world’s relationship with fabrics and textiles for both religious and secular use, up to and including fashion and business in the 20th century, via such themes as the role of writing as an ornamental motif, the use of textiles to adorn synagogues, embroidery as secret labor, and the role of women. .

The exhibit is included in the general admission ticket to the Uffizi.

 

 

Sep
19
Thu
Romaniote Memories – a Jewish Journey from Ioannina, Greece to Manhattan @ Greek Consulate in New York
Sep 19 @ 18:00 – Oct 3 @ 19:00
Romaniote Memories - a Jewish Journey from Ioannina, Greece to Manhattan @ Greek Consulate in New York | New York | New York | United States

Exhibition of Photographs by Vincent Giordano.

The photographs are part of a multi-media archive, created by Giordano, who died in 2010, that was sponsored by International Survey of Jewish Monuments and in 2019 will find a new home at the Hellenic American Project and Special Collections at the Library of Queens College, New York.

Giordano’s photographs document two related communities of Greek Romaniote Jews – in Ioannina, in northwestern Greece and on Broome Street on New York’s Lower East Side. Romaniote Jews trace their religious and cultural heritage to the Judaism of the ancient Greco-Roman world two-thousand years ago, and these two tiny congregations are among the few remaining to follow these traditions. Romaniotes have their own liturgy and cultural traditions, as well as their own language, a dialect of Greek that combines words and phrases from Hebrew and Turkish. This luminous black and white photo essay includes a poignant exploration of liturgy and ritual, conveying how people engage with religious space and carry on their time-honored sacred traditions.

The exhibition will open on Thursday, September 19th , 2019 at 6:00 p.m. it will continue through October 3rd, 2019. 

A panel discussion by experts will take place at the Consulate on Wednesday, September 25th, 2019 at 6:00 p.m.

 

Oct
3
Thu
House of Life exhibition @ Willesden Library, London
Oct 3 2019 – Feb 16 2020 all-day
House of Life exhibition @ Willesden Library, London | England | United Kingdom

A never before seen showcase of the heritage of Willesden Jewish Cemetery, London’s preeminent Victorian Jewish Cemetery, established in 1873.

The House of Life Exhibition previews new displays of the cemetery’s rich history, ahead of its opening to the wider public in 2020.

The exhibition introduces visitors to the  lives of selected individuals buried there, describes the Jewish approach to death and mourning, and gives a glimpse of the the cemetery buildings and landscape. 
The displays further invite us all to reflect on the people we have lost and how we like to remember them. 

The exhibition is presented by the United Synagogue in partnership with Brent Museum and Archives.

Researched by volunteers and designed by Philip Simpson Design, the exhibition is part of the House of Life heritage project of the United Synagogue, which is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

 

In Fading Light: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe @ Tryptych Gallery
Oct 3 @ 11:00 – 19:00
In Fading Light: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe @ Tryptych Gallery | Kyiv | Ukraine

Kyiv fine art gallery Triptych: Global Arts Workshop with the support of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kyiv presents ‘IN FADING LIGHT: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe’.

Photographs by Christian Herrmann

🔸The exhibition will be on display 26th September to 9th October 2019, Mon-Sat 11.00-19.00.
🔸Sunday closed.
🔸Entrance is free.
🔸Private view: Thursday 26th September at 19.00.
🔸Artist Talk: Saturday 29th September at 17.30.

This exhibition is part of a wider programme of events commemorating the Babyn Yar massacre (29-30th September 1941). It presents for the first time 14 photographs of Jewish heritage sites taken during the photographer’s travels in Ukraine and Belarus in 2018 and 2019: synagogues, batei midrash, private houses, and cemeteries, some ruined or abandoned, others repurposed.

Unveiling memorial @ Jewish cemetery Russocice, Poland
Oct 3 @ 11:00 – 13:00

Dedication of a memorial at the Jewish cemetery in the village. It is composed of  broken gravestones whose fragments have been partially fitted together to form (in part) their stones.

 

 

 

Commemoration of architect of synagogue @ former synagogue, St. Polten, Austria
Oct 3 @ 17:30 – 20:30
Commemoration of architect of synagogue @ former synagogue, St. Polten, Austria | Sankt Pölten | Niederösterreich | Austria

A commemoration of Theodor Schreier, the architect of the synagogue in St. Pölten, will include the unveiling of a commemorative plaque to the architect and his wife — both Holocaust victims who died in the Terezin ghetto/camp north of Prague — and a memorial symphonic concert featuring the music of Brahms, Bloch, Dvorak, Janacek, and Schulhoff.

The synagogue is now the home of the Institut für jüdische Geschichte Österreichs — Institute for Austrian Jewish History.

 

 

Oct
4
Fri
In Fading Light: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe @ Tryptych Gallery
Oct 4 @ 11:00 – 19:00
In Fading Light: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe @ Tryptych Gallery | Kyiv | Ukraine

Kyiv fine art gallery Triptych: Global Arts Workshop with the support of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kyiv presents ‘IN FADING LIGHT: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe’.

Photographs by Christian Herrmann

🔸The exhibition will be on display 26th September to 9th October 2019, Mon-Sat 11.00-19.00.
🔸Sunday closed.
🔸Entrance is free.
🔸Private view: Thursday 26th September at 19.00.
🔸Artist Talk: Saturday 29th September at 17.30.

This exhibition is part of a wider programme of events commemorating the Babyn Yar massacre (29-30th September 1941). It presents for the first time 14 photographs of Jewish heritage sites taken during the photographer’s travels in Ukraine and Belarus in 2018 and 2019: synagogues, batei midrash, private houses, and cemeteries, some ruined or abandoned, others repurposed.

Oct
5
Sat
In Fading Light: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe @ Tryptych Gallery
Oct 5 @ 11:00 – 19:00
In Fading Light: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe @ Tryptych Gallery | Kyiv | Ukraine

Kyiv fine art gallery Triptych: Global Arts Workshop with the support of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kyiv presents ‘IN FADING LIGHT: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe’.

Photographs by Christian Herrmann

🔸The exhibition will be on display 26th September to 9th October 2019, Mon-Sat 11.00-19.00.
🔸Sunday closed.
🔸Entrance is free.
🔸Private view: Thursday 26th September at 19.00.
🔸Artist Talk: Saturday 29th September at 17.30.

This exhibition is part of a wider programme of events commemorating the Babyn Yar massacre (29-30th September 1941). It presents for the first time 14 photographs of Jewish heritage sites taken during the photographer’s travels in Ukraine and Belarus in 2018 and 2019: synagogues, batei midrash, private houses, and cemeteries, some ruined or abandoned, others repurposed.

Oct
6
Sun
In Fading Light: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe @ Tryptych Gallery
Oct 6 @ 11:00 – 19:00
In Fading Light: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe @ Tryptych Gallery | Kyiv | Ukraine

Kyiv fine art gallery Triptych: Global Arts Workshop with the support of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kyiv presents ‘IN FADING LIGHT: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe’.

Photographs by Christian Herrmann

🔸The exhibition will be on display 26th September to 9th October 2019, Mon-Sat 11.00-19.00.
🔸Sunday closed.
🔸Entrance is free.
🔸Private view: Thursday 26th September at 19.00.
🔸Artist Talk: Saturday 29th September at 17.30.

This exhibition is part of a wider programme of events commemorating the Babyn Yar massacre (29-30th September 1941). It presents for the first time 14 photographs of Jewish heritage sites taken during the photographer’s travels in Ukraine and Belarus in 2018 and 2019: synagogues, batei midrash, private houses, and cemeteries, some ruined or abandoned, others repurposed.

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