Participation in seminars & meetings

Documento Forum: “Europe, a dark continent again. Fascism–racism. We relive whatever we have forgotten.” The seminar took place on Monday, 25 February 2019, at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, with the participation of Zanet Battinou, director of the Jewish Museum of Greece director, and Alexandra Patrikiou, a JMG historian. You can watch...

The third International Winter School in Jewish Studies, entitled “History and Memory in Judaism: The Greek Case”, was held in January at the Netherlands Institute at Athens, co-organised by the University of Amsterdam, King's College London and the Open University of Israel. The Jewish Museum of Greece’s contribution to...

With the support of the French Institute in Skopje and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs, the Jewish Museum of Greece, the Memorial de la Shoah in Paris and the Holocaust Center for the Jews of Macedonia in Skopje organized an educational...

During the annual conference of the AEJM (Association of European Jewish Museums) entitled The Politicisation of Museums. European Jewish Museums: Consequences and Responses, the director of the J.M.G. presented the museum's  new scientific publication entitled  “Corpus Inscriptionum Judaicarum Graeciae (CIJG): Corpus of Jewish and Hebrew Inscriptions from Mainland and Island...

On Tuesday, 13 November 2018, the Jewish Museum of Greece hosted a meeting of teachers participating in the seminar “The responsibility of memory and the responsibility for the Future”, which was organised by the Interorthodox Centre of the Church of Greece. The meeting commenced with a guided tour, provided by...

XIth Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies 5-19 July 2018, Krakow – Poland The Eleventh Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies took place in Krakow in Poland, from 15th to 19th July 2018. The conference was held in four major Polish academic institutions, hosted by the Instytut...

On Friday 27th October 2017,a round table discussion took place at the French Institute of Athens. The director of the Jewish Museum of Greece, Ms. Zanet Battinou, participated at the discussion. You can watch the discussion here. https://youtu.be/FF8Ygarqn3E

Alexandra Patrikiou conducted a two-hour workshop in English for the use of testimonies in teaching about the Holocaust, as part of the three-day seminar “The Holocaust as a Starting Point. Sharing and Comparing” at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki organized by Mémorial de la Shoah. Teachers from all over...

On Tuesday 10th October 2017, the Jewish Museum of Greece hosted 20 participants of the seminar "Teaching about Judaism through the coexistence of Christians and Jews in Greece" that was organized by the Interorthodox Center. The attendees were guided through the museum premises by Ms. Anastasia Loudarou, JMG researcher...

On 3-5 October 2017, three lecturers from the JMG, participated at the international conference entitled: “The Holocaust: Diachronic and Interdisciplinary Approaches”, that was organized by the Faculty of Social Theology (University of Athens) and focused on presenting both the historical and cultural context (early, medieval and contemporary persecutions of Jews, subversion...