Founded in Russia in 1880 to extricate Jews from misery through the promotion of handicrafts and agriculture, ORT (Organisation Reconstruction Travail) is today an international education and training network established in over forty countries. 2021 marks the centenary of its presence in France.
The Guerry Columns, a major work Georges Jeanclos (1933-1997), joined recently the mahJ’s collections thanks to an exceptional donation by the artist’s family of a full-scale terracotta study of the bronze monument erected in the hamlet of Guerry at Savigny-en-Septaine in the Cher. A poignant evocation of one of the crimes of the Shoah perpetrated on the French territory, this work constitutes a major enrichment of the mahJ’s contemporary collection.
Avec le Katerina Klezmer Orkestra, dirigé par Alain Gourdeau, et les Klezmorimlekh, musiciens amateurs de la Maison de la culture yiddish, dirigés par Marthe Desrosières
Avec la participation d’Andreas Schmitges, maître de danse, et de Muriel Bloch, conteuse
daily, starting from Thursday, February 23, 2017 - 11:00, until Sunday, July 30, 2017 - 23:59
Max Wechsler’s donation of works to the mahJ consecrates the long dialogue between the museum and the artist, awarded the Prix Maratier by the Fondation Pro mahJ in 2003.
