Lecture by historian and archivist Anne Sophie Stockbauer
Opening of a exhibit of photographs by Pavlina Scherrer of the Jewish heritage in the Bas-Rhin department of Alsace, France.
The opening will be followed by a concert.
Vilnius presentation of the new book by Dr. Richard Freund, the Maurice Greenberg Professor of Jewish History at the University of Hartford in Connecticut: The Archaeology of the Holocaust: Vilna, Rhodes, and Escape Tunnels.
Click to read more about the book
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.
Lecture and panel discussion about Romaniote Jews, linked to the exhibition “Romaniote Memories – A Jewish Journey from Ioannina, Greece to Manhattan: Photographs by Vincent Giordano.”
A guided visit to one of the synagogues in the Marais Jewish quarter district of Paris., organized by the Museum of Jewish Art and History.
Reservations are obligatory, see web site for details.
A guided walking tour of Montmartre hill, discovering the Jewish history of the district. Organized by the Museum of Jewish Art and History. Will tell the stories of Jews in the district, from artists to WW2 refugees.
Reservations are required, with tickets bought online or at the Museum — see the web site for details.
A guided tour of the Jewish heritage in the town of Ingwiller, including the synagogue, former Jewish school, stolperstein Holocaust memorial, and more, organized by the Friends of the Ingwiller Synagogue Association.
The tour will be conducted in French.
A guided visit to one of the synagogues in the Marais Jewish quarter district of Paris., organized by the Museum of Jewish Art and History.
Reservations are obligatory, see web site for details.
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