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Nov
23
Wed
Invisible synagogues – Neviditelné synagogy @ Synagogue in Krnov
Nov 23 2022 @ 17:00 – Feb 28 2023 @ 19:00
Invisible synagogues - Neviditelné synagogy @ Synagogue in Krnov | Krnov | Moravskoslezský kraj | Czechia

The latest edition of the exhibit Neviditelné Synagogy — Invisible Synagogues, photographs by Štěpán Bartoš.  The vernissage is November 23 at 17:00.

Bartoš photographs the blank spaces in the Czech Republic where destroyed synagogues once stood and adds a ghostly silhouette of the destroyed synagogue to the exhibition photos of the places where they once stood.

On the Invisible Synagogues project web site (which is in German and Czech) you can see galleries of his photos, without the added silhouette, arranged according to region. They include sites in big cities, small towns, and tiny villages; there are fields and rural spaces as well as modern buildings, crowded city streets, and even artificial lakes.

Read our November 2021 post about his Invisible Synagogues project.

 

Mar
22
Wed
Photo exhibit: Jewish heritage in Argentina
Mar 22 @ 18:00 – 19:30
Photo exhibit: Jewish heritage in Argentina

Opening of an exhibition of photographs by JHE contributor Michele Migliori. 

They are photos of Jewish heritage sites in rural Argentina that Michele has taken during current research work there on his PhD dissertation.

His topic — and thus, the photos — are of particular interest to us, as he is researching how the architecture and decoration of synagogues in Latin America were influenced by the synagogue art and architecture in the countries which the Jewish immigrant communities in Latin America came from in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Click here for further information and some photos

Apr
13
Thu
Mapping Memories: Judengasse Extended @ Judengasse museum
Apr 13 – Apr 30 all-day
Mapping Memories: Judengasse Extended @ Judengasse museum | Frankfurt am Main | Hessen | Germany

The multi-day event “Mapping Memories” revolves around the violently suppressed traces of Frankfurt’s Judengasse from public space. At its center is a pop-up exhibition in the Museum Judengasse with archaeological finds from the time of Europe’s oldest Jewish ghetto; also an artistic intervention in the current form of the historic site.

The exhibition, with archaeological finds that were recovered from Börneplatz – formerly the southern part of the Judengasse ghetto – in 1987, will be held in the atrium of the Museum Judengasse.

It opens at 18:00 on April 13 — to attend, register with anmeldung@metahubfrankfurt.de

The exhibition is a cooperation with the Archaeological Museum Frankfurt.

It shows archaeological finds that were recovered in 1987 at Börneplatz, at the place where they were found at the time. It presents ongoing research and new insights into the everyday culture of Jews in early modern Frankfurt. The archaeological finds come both from the cellars of the Judengasse and from ditches for water supply and disposal.

 

Apr
18
Tue
Yom HaShoah – Holocaust memorial day
Apr 18 all-day
Yom HaShoah - Holocaust memorial day

Many commemorative events are planned to mark the annual Yom HaShoah, the Jewish world’s Holocaust Memorial Day.

 

Apr
19
Wed
80th Anniversary Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Apr 19 all-day
80th Anniversary Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

A number of events are marking the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, including a conference, exhibit, monument dedication, at the POLIN Museum, Warsaw’s Okopowa Jewish cemetery, and elsewhere.

 

 

Apr
20
Thu
Case di vita. Sinagoghe e cimiteri in Italia @ MEIS museum
Apr 20 – Sep 17 all-day
Case di vita.  Sinagoghe e cimiteri in Italia @ MEIS museum | Ferrara | Emilia-Romagna | Italy

“Case di vita.  Sinagoghe e cimiteri in Italia” — “Houses of Life: Synagogues and cemeteries in Italy”

The exhibit, curated by Andrea Morpurgo and the MEIS director Amadeo Spagnoletto, focuses on the architectural, ritual, and social dimensions of the synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in Italy.

It displays architectural plans, documents from state archives and Jewish communities, family heirlooms, and prestigious loans such as the Ark of the Jewish Community of Vercelli.

 

Future for Religious Heritage conference @ Kulturen i Lund
Apr 20 – Apr 21 all-day
Future for Religious Heritage conference @ Kulturen i Lund | Skåne län | Sweden

The biennial conference of the Future for Religious Heritage network.

It will focus on sustainability, a priority objective on the political and cultural agenda of the European Union as reflected in the recent report “Strengthening Cultural Heritage Resilience for Climate Change.

The conference will address various facets of sustainability grouped into four sub-themes:
-Economic sustainability
-Ecological sustainability
-Social sustainability
-Cultural/Spiritual sustainability.

Click here to see the program

 

Orthodoxie et art nouveau. Une synagogue d’Hector Guimard rue Pavée @ Museum of the Art and History of Judaism MAHJ
Apr 20 @ 12:30 – 14:00
Orthodoxie et art nouveau. Une synagogue d’Hector Guimard rue Pavée @ Museum of the Art and History of Judaism MAHJ | Paris | Île-de-France | France

A talk (in French)  by the expert on synagogue architecture Dominique Jarrassé, emeritus professor of art history and the université Bordeaux Montaigne, about the art nouveau synagogue built on rue Pavée in the Marais Jewish district of Paris for the orthodox Agoudas hakehilos congregation.  It was designed by  Hector Guimard, one of the most modern architects of his time.

Apr
29
Sat
Open Jewish Houses @ Various towns
Apr 29 @ 17:22 – May 5 @ 18:22
Open Jewish Houses @ Various towns

The annual “Open Jewish Houses/Houses of Resistance” commemorative program takes place in a score of towns and cities around the Netherlands.

Storytellers, visitors and residents share stories in houses where Jews or members of the resistance lived and worked before, during and just after the Second World War. 

Click to see the program

 

 

 

May
10
Wed
Jewish Country House conference @ Villa Stiassni, Brno
May 10 – May 12 all-day
Jewish Country House conference @ Villa Stiassni, Brno | Jihomoravský kraj | Czechia

Jewish Country Houses and the Holocaust In History and Memory

This conference will investigate the fate in the Holocaust of Jewish country houses and the people who inhabited them. It will explore memory cultures that emerged afterwards and the Cold War context that shaped them. The conference will address and support curatorial, artistic, and narrative practices telling the difficult stories of genocide linked to these properties. As it does so, it will bring together academic historians, heritage professionals, and artists over three days at the Methodological Centre of Modern Architecture at the Villa Stiassni in Brno, Czech Republic. The built heritage of the Villa Stiassni, visits to the nearby villas Tugendhat and Löw-Beer, and an exploration of the experiences and memories of the Czech Jewish industrialist families who inhabited and fled from them will be an integral part of the conference.

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