Monday, March 17, 2014

Jewish Culture, etc Festivals 2014



Jewish Culture Festival, Krakow. Photo © 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 -- September 14 --  15th European Day of Jewish Culture (This year's theme -- Women in Judaism)


AUSTRIA

May 18-27 -- Vienna -- Jewish Culture Festival

Nov. 8-23 -- Vienna -- KlezMORE festival


CZECH REPUBLIC

July 10-13 -- Boskovice -- 22nd Festival for the Jewish Quarter

July 28-August 2 -- Trebic -- Shamayim Jewish Culture Festival

October 18-23  -- Olomouc -- Days of Jewish Culture

October 31-November 21 -- Teplice -- Days of Jewish Culture (Teplicky Cimes)


DENMARK

June 5-9 -- Copenhagen -- Jewish Culture Festival


FRANCE

June 10-26 -- Paris -- 10th Aimer Festival of Jewish Cultures

Nov. 17-Dec. 4 -- Paris -- Jazz & Klezmer festival


GERMANY

March 30-April 13 -- Berlin & Potsdam -- Jewish Film Festival Berlin & Potsdam

July 19-August 16 -- Weimar -- Yiddish Summer Weimar

August 5-9 -- Weimar -- YSW Festival Week

Octboer 10-12 --Valley --  Kunstünger Klezmer Festival


HUNGARY

June 8 -- Budapest --  7th Judafest Jewish street and gastronomic festival

August 31- September 7 -- Budapest -- Jewish Summer Festival

Nov. 20-23 -- Budapest -- Jewish Film Festival

Dec. 16-24 -- Budapest -- Quarter7Quarter8 Hanukkah Festival


ITALY

May 29-June 1 -- Rome -- European Jewish Choir Festival

Every Thursday June 12-Sept 4 -- Florence -- Balagan Cafe

September 13-16 -- Milan -- Jewish and the City festival

September 13-17 -- Rome -- International Jewish Literature Festival

November 30-December 14 -- Pisa -- Nessiah Jewish Culture Festival


NETHERLANDS

April 30 - May 4 -- Leeuwarden -- Jiddisch Festival

September 13-16 -- Amsterdam -- International Jewish Music Festival and Competition


POLAND

Click here for a full list of more than 40 Jewish culture festivals in Poland

March 18-21 -- Szczeczin -- Adlojada Days of Jewish Culture

April 22-27  -- Warsaw -- Jewish Motifs Film Festival

May 10-11 -- Poznan -- 2nd Jewish Street Festival

May 22-25 -- Warsaw -- 5th New Jewish Music Festival

May 25-28 -- Warsaw -- 17th Jewish Book Days festival

June 6-10 -- Wroclaw -- 16th Simcha Jewish Culture Festival

June 15-15 -- Chmielnik -- 12th Meeting with Jewish Culture

June 7 -- Krakow -- 7@Nite festival (Night of the Synagogues)

June 13-15 -- Bialystok -- Zachor Festival Color & Sound

June 25-28 -- Oswiecim -- Oswiecim Life Festival

June 27-29 -- Zdunska Wola -- Festival of Three Cultures

June 27-July 6 -- Krakow -- Jewish Culture Festival

July 7 -- Szczekociny -- VII Jewish Culture Festival "Yahad"

July 12-26 -- southeast Poland -- In the Footsteps of Singer festival

August 19-23 -- Kazimierz Dolny -- Pardes Festival

August 22-24 -- Lelow -- Ciulimu-Czulentu festival

August 23-31 -- Warsaw -- Singer's Warsaw Festival 

November 3-9 -- Warsaw -- Warsaw Jewish Film Festival


ROMANIA

June 14-17 -- Bucharest -- Abraham Goldfaden Days


SPAIN

May 20-25 -- Oviedo -- Israel Week

June 9-14 -- Cordoba -- International Sephardic Music Festival

June 10-15 -- Barcelona -- Jewish Film Festival

Octotber 10-12 -- Toledo -- Sukkot Jewish culture festival


UKRAINE


May 15-19 -- L'viv -- Days of Yiddish in L'viv

May 26-30 -- Drohobycz  -- Bruno Schulz Festival


UNITED KINGDOM

March 28-20 -- Youlgreave (near Matlock) Derbyshire -- KlezNorth

September 7 -- London -- Klezmer in the Park festival