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L’Maimonides-Averroes-Thomas Aquinas University Institute don't be idle, Montpellier : after the unprecedented concert in Montpellier by Shura Lipovsky and his Novaya Shira Trio (musical quartet from Amsterdam in the Netherlands, specialized in Jewish music and that of Yiddishland), organized last Saturday November 16, last Petrarque room, in the part of Anima, the 24th Fraternity Festival of sacred music, by Chrétiens et cultures and IUMAT, a new highlight of this season 2024-2025 is proposed.

The 5th Jewish Worlds Book Fair, which will be held this Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 November 20245 at Montpellier town hall, in the Meeting Room, with free entry. An edition organized by the Sepharim Association, in partnership with the Maïmonides-Averroès-Thomas d'Aquin University Institute, the Montpellier Association for Humanist and Secular Judaism (AMJHL) and the Liberal Jewish Community of Montpellier (CJLM).

An award-winning speaker

This book fair which takes place before the next conference which will close the year 2024, proposed by Carol Iancuprofessor emeritus of Contemporary History at Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 University and director emeritus of the School of Advanced Judaism Studies, Monday December 9, 2024, at 6:30 p.m., Salle Pétrarque. The Montpellier academic, who has just been awarded the National Prize for Judeo-Christian Friendship of France AJCF-Hubert Heilbronn 2024.

He will return to the fraternity rediscovered between monotheistic elder brothers in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Shoah, which led to the Second Vatican Council and the Declaration Nostra Aetate, the fruit of the work initiated by the French Jewish historian Jules Isaac with the Sovereign Pontiff John XXIII, to move from the teaching of contempt to that of esteem on the part of Christianity towards Judaism. Two thousand years of incomprehension which gave way to a peaceful and fruitful Judeo-Christian dialogue.

The weekend program

In the meantime, here is the complete program of the Book Fair at Montpellier town hall:

Saturday November 23, 2024
2:30 p.m.: Reception and opening of the stands
2:30 p.m.: Panorama of the latest publications on the tragedies of the 20th century
2:45 p.m.: The heroes: they refused fate with
Brigitte CLAPAREDE-ALBERNHE: Suzanne Babut-Planchon
Maurice LUGASSY: The Jewish army
Jean Charles SZUREK: Gabriel Ersler: International brigades
in Soviet prisons, the other Red Orchestra
3:45 p.m.: Family memories with
Eve BUCHWALD: The Ghosts
Michel CHEIN : Rafistolages I
Véronique CHOURAQUI: The child of Exodus
Guy DUGAS: War diary by Albert MEMMI (reissue)
Jordan MECHNER: Replay, memories of a family
5:15 p.m.: Victims and executioners with:
Lionel DUROY: My steps in their shadows / Have we become
criminals?
Carol IANCU: 80 years since the pogrom of lasi
Murielle SZAC : Tosca
6:30 p.m.: Official inauguration followed by the honorary aperitif
7:30 p.m.: Contemporary anti-Judaism with Paul AUDI for Tenir Tête
8:15 p.m.: Tribute to Leonard Cohen with Laurent COHEN for Leonard
Cohen, mystical poet / Discovery of the exhibition dedicated to Leonard Cohen
8:45 p.m.: Musical and poetic show around the work of Leonard Cohen,
with Laurent Cohen and Sandrine Saporta

Sunday November 24, 2024
10 a.m.: Public reception
10:30 a.m.: Tribute to Benjamin Fondane (80th anniversary of his death) for
Family correspondence 1905-1944 with Michel Carassou, director
from Éditions Non Lieu
1h: Tribute to Franz Kafka (centenary of his death) with Laurent COHEN
for Variations around K
11:45 a.m.: Presentation of the Les dix mots collection from Éditions Verdier by
René LEVY, Director, and his book La mort à vive: Essay on Paul de
Tarse
Lunch break, signing and presentation of works
(A packed lunch is provided for the public at the price of €13)
1:45 p.m.: Sandrine SZWARC, for His name was Chuna and Fascinating Chouchani
2:30 p.m.: A poetic time with Pierre ECH-ARDOUR, Anne ROTHSCHILD
Suzanne AURBACH, (poems read by Pascale Goëta)
3:00 p.m.: Nicolas TENZER: Our war – Crime and oblivion: for a thought
strategic
3:45 p.m.: Round table on Post October 7 writings with:
Rachel BINHAS: French victims of Hamas. Their story – Our silence
Denis CHARBIT: Israel, The Impossible Normal State
Pierre HASKI: A doubly promised land
Haim MUSICANT: Hero of October 7. At 6:30 a.m., their fate changed.
5:45 p.m.: Signatures and stroll through the stands
6:30 p.m.: Doors close

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