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Erwin Blumenfeld, Double autoportrait
Exhibition

The Trials and Tribulations of Erwin Blumenfeld, 1930-1950

13 October 2022 – 5 March 2023

Featuring some 180 photographs, including series never previously exhibited, "The Trials and Tribulations of Erwin Blumenfeld, 1930-1950" exhibition focuses on the photographer’s most fertile period. It also casts new light on his vision of art and his life during the Second World War.

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Exhibition

Marcel Proust. On his mother's side

From 14 april to 28 August 2022

The "Marcel Proust. On his mother's side" exhibition is the first in France to focus on the writer through the prism of his Jewishness.

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Si Lewen, Parade (détail)
Exhibition

Si Lewen, The Parade

Until May 8th, 2022

The mahJ is showing The Parade, the series of drawings created by Si Lewen (1918–2016) in 1950. Although this Polish-born American artist was a prominent figure in American post-war art, he is still little known in Europe. The recurrent theme in his work is the inexpressible horror of the Holocaust.

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In search of the Hassoun family of Constantine

daily, starting from Tuesday, July 21, 2020 - 11:00, until Sunday, March 28, 2021 - 23:59

After an extensive investigation, the mahJ’s curators have unveiled part of the mystery shrouding three portraits of the Hassoun family of Constantine. Their research succeeded in localising the family, discovering the cultural identities indicated by the garments worn and establishing the singular path that took them to France. 

In addition to these discoveries, this presentation is an opportunity to more fully understand the work of the museum’s curators and their interest in each work’s hidden facets...

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Les colonnes de Guerry
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The Guerry Columns by Georges Jeanclos

Until January 31st 2021

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.

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Exhibition

Adolfo Kaminsky. Forger and photographer

daily, starting from Saturday, June 6, 2020 - 10:00, until Sunday, June 7, 2020 - 23:59
daily, starting from Thursday, May 23, 2019 - 11:00, until Friday, March 13, 2020 - 23:59

Adolfo Kaminsky, a member of the Resistance and a brilliant forger, spent thirty years of his life producing counterfeit identity papers to save lives. He discovered photography during the Second World War reproducing official stamps for forged identity cards.

Prolongation
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Colloquium

Les Mendelssohn. L’entrée du judaïsme dans la modernité

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Sous la direction de Dominique Bourel, CNRS, université de Potsdam, auteur de Moses Mendelssohn. La naissance du judaïsme moderne (Gallimard, 2004)

20 years!