MUSEUM EVENTS
BOOK TALK
Unpacking the Suitcase:
Exploring our stories
Monday 4 November | 6pm
At birth we are all handed a bag that someone else packed. We carry it without questions for a long time until about middle age, at which point we have collected so much baggage of our own we begin wondering why this bag is so heavy. Why are we carrying it? If we're lucky, there's someone left to ask about the contents. As the people of the book, it is incumbent on us Jews not only to explore our history but also to record it. Telling stories, writing stories and reading stories— that is our legacy as Jews.
CONCERT
Tehorah - A Holocaust Remembrance Concert
Sunday 26 January 2025 | 6pm
The South African Jewish Museum proudly presents Chanteuse Internationale Adrienne Haan in Tehorah.
Tehorah, which means pure in Hebrew, is a poetic musical portrait about love, loss, hope and forgiveness. This one-woman tour-deforce contains German, Yiddish and Hebrew songs, composed and written exclusively by Jewish composers and lyricists. Tehorah is a musical journey through the turbulent times of the Weimar Republic to the Łódź Ghetto all the way to Israel.