PERMANENCE: 2020-2021 Call for Exhibition Proposals Deadline: December 15, 2019 at 11:59pm  *** Deadline EXTENDED: Friday, December 20, 2019 at 9:00am ***   The Museum is inviting artists and collectives to submit their proposed exhibition projects for our 2020-2021 exhibition series on the theme of Permanence. Our curatorial team invites artists to propose...

Join us and KlezKanada on Sunday January 19 to try our delicious brunch menu, hear some amazing live music, and spend time with your friends and family! Music will be held in three sets, from 11:00-11:30 AM, 12:00-12:30 PM, and 1:00-1:30 PM. Special guests Yoni, Eden and Zafer will be...

  Join us at the Museum of Jewish Montreal for Jonathan Rotsztain's “Self-Loving Jew” comic making workshop!  In this hands-on artist-guided workshop, Rotsztain will introduce his own comic work and and other graphic narratives around identity. Following a brief discussion on Jewish religious and cultural history, participants will come together...

Travel back in time to the 1940s and 50s to visit a Yiddish institution that helped shape Jewish identity in Montreal – the Peretz Shule. Telling the story through the eyes of several students who attended the school, our new tour takes a closer look at the history of Montreal’s...

Presentation and Discussion with the Author Michael Blum Moderation: Sonja Finck Michael Blum's book Oranienstraße Ausgrabungen, Eine Verschronik tells the story of a building in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Oranienstrasse 10/11, and the life of the Baum family from the middle of the 19th century until today. Everything begins as in a fairy...

In collaboration with the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, join us in welcoming Drs. Daniel and Irene Oore on their cross-country tour of Genocide and Improvisation: Listener and Teller. Genocide and Improvisation: Listener and Telleris an intergenerational, interdisciplinary performance-talk, created and performed by son-mother duo, Drs. Daniel Ooreand Irene...

Join us and KlezKanada in welcoming Zoë Aqua from New York for our monthly klezmer brunch! Come try our delicious brunch menu, hear some amazing live music, and spend time with your friends and family! Music will be held in three sets, from 11:00-11:30 AM, 12:00-12:30 PM, and 1:00-1:30 PM. Special...

  Join in on the Bosch-annalia as we open the gates to the 🍻 Biergarten of Earthly Delights 🍻, inviting you out of the winter’s cold and into a hidden watering hole for city dwellers and every earth-crawler in-between! 🐍 For its seventh consecutive year, the Museum of Jewish Montreal...

***This event has been postponed, we will update the event date once it has been rescheduled.*** The Museum of Jewish Montreal is thrilled to present the first event of our 2020 Microgrants Program – “Games I Don’t Want to Play” by Joseph Glaser and Michelle Soicher! “Games I Don’t Want...

Join us this spring for a series of 8 beginner or 8 intermediate Yiddish classes at the Museum, led by experienced Yiddish teacher Sheila Witt! Explore this Jewish language and culture through basic vocabulary, short stories, poems, expressions, and well-known songs, and learn how to lead a simple conversation! Classes...

Join the Museum of Jewish Montreal and Carla Friend, founder of Tkiya (NY), for a participatory afternoon of Passover songs, movement, and play! This virtual event is perfect for kids aged 0-6. Sing and dance along as Carla and her puppet friends take us on a musical journey through the story of Passover, from...

  🌊Why is this night different from all other nights? Because it’s our 3rd annual Passover Trivia Night🌊 (*No Passover Knowledge Required!) Join us from your new favourite bar - your living room! - for a new spin on a good old fashioned pub quiz night.💡 The Museum of Jewish...