Frenchman Michel Hazanavicius, who won the best director Oscar on Sunday, has come a long way from making TV shows and adverts to scoop Hollywood's highest honor for ''The Artist.''

Spain on Tuesday opened one of the most extensive Marc Chagall exhibitions ever mounted, a feat that organisers say will not be repeated for many years.

A burly man with an easy laugh, Dunai lives in Lviv, Ukraine’s fourth largest city. Over the years, the 43-year-old has built a profitable career as a researcher and tour guide, escorting Jews through Ukrainian shtetls in their search for information about departed relatives. He has provided services to Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust museum, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Johannes Heesters, a controversial operetta singer who became famous in Nazi Germany and who was considered one of the world's oldest performing artists, died on Saturday aged 108, his agency said.

Almost seven decades after the Holocaust, Warsaw's Chamber Opera is marking its own anniversary with performances of rare works from composers who lost their lives in Nazi Germany's genocide.

Jewish publishing houses and cultural organizations participated in the 24th Moscow International Book Fair, held September 7-11 at the All-Russian Exhibition Center in Russia’s capital.

The red brick walls of the synagogue in Gora Kalwaria, once a center of Jewish culture in Poland, reverberate anew with music lost in the Holocaust, thanks to one man's search for his Polish roots.

To the delight of people who appreciate Jewish books, a new book store has recently opened, along with an online shop.

The Israel Chamber Orchestra, set to perform in Bayreuth on Tuesday a work by Richard Wagner, the composer revered by the Nazis, are not on a ''political mission,'' director Roberto Paternostro said.

Belgian Corinne Evens was awarded the annual Prize of the 21st Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland, for her active support to this event which attracts thousands of visitors every year.