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| At the Budapest Jewish Summer Festival. Photo (c) Ruth Ellen Gruber |
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
As usual, I am trying to put together a list of as many as possible of the numerous Jewish festivals -- culture, film, dance, etc -- that take place each year around Europe. Please help me by sending me information!
The big culture festivals and other smaller events make good destinations around which to center a trip. Some, like the annual Festival of Jewish Culture in Krakow, are huge events lasting a week or more, which draw thousands of people and offer scores or sometimes hundreds of performances, lectures, concerts, exhibits and the like. Other festivals are much less ambitious. Some are primarily workshops but also feature concerts. Many of the same artists perform at more than one festival.
The list will be growing and growing -- and again, I ask my readers to please send me information and links to upcoming events. Thanks!
ALL OVER EUROPE -- Sept. 4 -- 12th European Day of Jewish Culture. The theme this year is "Facing the Future."
AUSTRIA
April 3-7 -- Vienna -- Jewish Film Noir festival
Nov. 5-2- -- Vienna -- KlezMORE music festival
CZECH REPUBLIC
April 28-May 1 --Mikulov -- Days of Jewish Culture
June 12-16 -- Terezin -- Defiant Requiem performances
July 7-10 -- Boskovice -- UniJazz/Boskovice Festival. The festival is focused on saving and restoring of local Jewish quarter.
July 25-30 -- Trebic -- Trebic Jewish Festival, held in one of the most extensive and best-preserved old Jewish quarters in Europe, part of the town's UNESCO-listed historic center.
July 25-26 -- Namest nad Oslavou -- Jewish music at Folk Holidays Festival
FRANCE
May 10-13 -- Saint-Gildas-des-Bois -- Festival MusiqueS Klezmer
June 14-30 -- Paris -- Festival of Jewish Cultures
July 2-10 -- Bréau (Gard) -- Le Yiddishland à la rencontre des Cévennes
GERMANY
March 11-13 -- Fuerth -- International Klezmer Festival
May 18-31 -- Berlin/Potsdam -- 17th Jewish Film Festival
June 23-26 -- Berlin -- "Sounds no Walls" -- Jazz and Jewish Culture
July -- Weimar -- Yiddish Summer Weimar
Oct. 23-Nov. 6 -- Dresden -- 15th Yiddish Music and Theater Weeks
November 12-30 -- Munich -- 25th edition of Jewish Culture Days
HUNGARY
April 28-May 4 -- Budapest -- First Israeli Documentary Film Festival
June 5 -- Budapest -- Judafest
Aug. 4-7 -- Bank Lake -- Bankito Festival
Aug. 27-Sept. 5 -- Budapest -- Jewish Summer Festival
ITALY
May 7-9 -- Ferrara -- Festival of the Jewish Book in Italy
June 2-3 -- Casale Monferrato -- Oy Oy Oy Festival
June 26-July 17 -- in val d'Aosta -- Centrad festival/workshops in Ashkenazic culture
Nov. 12-16 -- Rome -- Pitigliani Kolno'a Festival (music, film, etc)
Nov. 20-27 -- Venice -- Festival of Polish-Jewish Culture
NETHERLANDS
October -- many venues around the country -- International Jewish Music Festival -- . See the web site for a calendar of Jewish music events.
POLAND
May 1-6 -- Czestochowa -- International Festival of Sacred Music
May 6, 7, 13 -- Opole -- Days of Jewish Music and Culture
May 14-22 -- Warsaw -- Otwarta-Twarda Jewish Festival
May 15-18 -- Warsaw -- 14th Jewish Book Days
May 29-June 3 --- Wroclaw -- 13th Simcha Jewish Culture Festival
June 1 -- Szydlow -- 9th Encounters with Jewish Culture
June 4 -- Krakow -- Night of the Synagogues
June 11-17 -- Oswiecim -- Oswiecim Life Festival (international music festival with Jewish content, held in the town where Auschwitz is located)
June 18-19 -- Chmielnik -- 9th Encounters with Jewish Culture
June 24-July 3 -- Krakow -- Festival of Jewish Culture
August 19-21 -- Lublin -- Shalom: Encounters with Jewish Culture
August 20-21 -- Lelow -- 9th Cholent and Ciulim festival
August 27-Sept. 4 -- Warsaw -- Singer's Warsaw Festival
ROMANIA
June 16-19 -- Bucharest -- Klezmer & More Festival
June 20-26 -- Bucharest -- First Bucharest Jewish Film Festival
SERBIA
June 12-21 -- Belgrade -- Ethno Fusion Fest (in courtyard of Belgrade synagogue)
SWITZERLAND
June 18-19 -- Geneva -- Friends of Jewish Music Festival
UKRAINE
July 24 -- L'viv -- L'vivKlezFest
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