Flora Goldenberg
Born in Paris, Jewish French tour guide
Flora is a professional Tour Guide specialized in the Jewish Walking Tours in Paris.
She obtained her License, after studying History and Art in the prestigious Sorbonne University for 5 years, that’s why she can tour in all museums and monuments of the city like the Louvre, Versailles, Orsay and many more.
Parisian, born and raised in a Jewish Family in Paris, in le Marais.
The Jewish Quarter of Paris is her Home: She is actually the granddaughter of Joe Goldenberg, owner of a famous restaurant in le Marais : Rue des Rosiers “Pletzl”.
Her mother Léontine is a tour guide in Paris as well, she inspired her to do Jewish tours.
She started working on her own tours at a young age.
Now Flora is 35, she organized private Tours in the city and its museums, Shabbat dinners, Seder, Yeshiva Week vacation in Paris, she is in charge of bookings for Kosher food tours, dinners in Kosher restaurants, she can answer questions about Paris, its museums, its synagogues.
Flora assists visitors in planning their trip to enjoy Art and learn about the Jewish History in Paris.
Read what Jerusalem Post wrote about Flora Goldenberg
Contact : Flora.goldenberg@gmail.com
Livia
Jewish Tour guide in Paris, she can tour in English / French / Hebrew
Livia is on the right, she is a Jewish tour guide in Paris for the Jewish History.
Livia is a passionate tour guide in Paris, specialized in the Jewish tour in Le Marais.
She speaks English, French and Hebrew. She learned a little bit of Yiddish and German as well.
Born in Israel to an American father and an Israeli mother, Livia is living in Paris for more than 30 years. She came here just for a few months to study the French language and fell in love with the city and with history. A few years later she graduated from university, with a PhD in history, and became specialized in Portuguese Judaism and the history of the Marranos.
Born into a family of musicians, History and art are two of Livia’s passions. She always tried to combine them in her personal and professional life. She was working for 10 years in the Museum of the Holocaust in Paris, Memorial de la Shoah in the cultural activities department, organizing screening of movies, encounters on books, symposiums, concerts, book fair…
Besides her research, Livia is collaborating for many years with a publisher house in which she publishes essays, translates, and for which she also organizes cultural events, relating books, history and knowledge, to various form of art including music, theater, cinema… and recently, she curated a traveling exhibition (20 panels) on the fascinating history of the Jewish Portuguese Diaspora which implanted all around the world from Lisbon to Goa, through Italy, France, Amsterdam, London, Hamburg, the ottoman empire, but also Brazil, the Caribbean and New Amsterdam which became New York!
Infatuated with the city of Paris, eager to meet people, learn from them and extremely fond of being in contact with curious travelers : families with children, adolescents, or grown-ups with a desire to learn more about their Jewish origins, Livia loves to convey History in a vivid and enjoyable way, such as our Jewish walking tours in Paris in Le Marais and her special chocolate tour in Paris and her new 2022 Jewish tour in Jewish Belleville.
Livia organizes exhibits for city halls, museums and cultural events.
She creates new tours and writes articles about the Jewish history.
Today, her passion is to research historical topics and to guide in order to share her findings and her knowledge of Paris city.
Livia wrote some articles about the Jewish History that you can read here.
Livia organizes all the Jewish walking tours of Paris with Flora Goldenberg – Contact : Flora.goldenberg@gmail.com
Alix
Alix is a graduate from the Ecole du Louvre.
Thanks to her license as a Guide-Lecturer, Alix offers quality guided tours in several national museums and cultural institutions in Paris, such as the Louvre, D’Orsay, Versailles Palace, the Picasso Museum or the Palais de Tokyo, in Paris and in Orléans.
Jewish Tour Guide in Paris, she can tour in English & French.
As a grand-daughter of a Parisian survivor, Alix focused her researches on places linked to World War II’s Memory : le CERCIL-Musée Mémorial des Enfants du Vel d’Hiv in Orléans : the Museum – Memorial of the Children of the Vel d’Hiv, the Mont-Valérien and the Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation : National Memorial for concentration camps Victims.
For nine years, Alix has been working as a guide and a education coordinator for the Holocaust Memorial, in both sites Paris and Drancy.
She is passionate about the Jewish history of France, the Jewish culture and art, and loves to share her family stories and her personal interests with her audience.
Alix & Flora Goldenberg
Gabrielle
Passionate about the Jewish history, her Jewish identity, and Jewish culture, as well as History in general and the Holocaust in particular, Gabrielle is a 27-year-old educator and guide living and working in Paris.
Today, she works at the Shoah Memorial, in the Marais district, as an educator for a range of audiences, including school students and adults.
Gabrielle is French-American, perfectly bilingual, and bicultural.
Ben
Jewish and Parisian Tour Guide, Ben can give you a tour in English / French / Hebrew
Ben is one of the rare Jewish Parisians who is a tour guide, born and raised in Paris, graduated from Sorbonne University, like myself.
Contact : Flora.goldenberg@gmail.com
Emma
Highly recommended Professional Tour Guide for the Museums of Paris
Speaks Perfect English & French
Emma holds qualifications in Art History from University College Dublin and La Sorbonne. Her innovative masters research focused on how Egyptian themes were used as propaganda in the public art of Napoleonic Paris.
One thing her research highlighted is that art, architecture and historical events don’t happen in a vacuum and it is only when you start looking at them in context that they really come to life.
She is a great story teller and communicator
Emma has a passion for storytelling and so stories are central to the way she talks about history.
She is amazing with kids, she grabs their attention during her Treasure Hunts that she developed herself.
Kids learn better and retain the stories and the knowledge during the treasure hunts of the Louvre
I recommend her vividly for Treasure Hunts with Families !
TEACHER AT SORBONNE
She has worked as an educator and researcher at various cultural organisations and museums in France, Ireland and the UK – including the Louvre, Orleans House Gallery and the Arts Service of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, where she managed a dynamic team of educators and designed educational programs for a wide range of age groups and backgrounds. She currently lectures in Museum Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Jewish from her Father
Emma is Jewish from her Father and her Grandfather’s name, before the Shoah, was “Izrael”, then due to assimilation during the WWII , her grandfather fled France to go to Ireland and changed his name to Durand.
Contact : Flora.goldenberg@gmail.com
Tobias
Raised in Paris by a French father and an English mother, I grew up surrounded by Parisian culture, while being exposed to an English and Jewish Ashkenazi culture, going to school in the Marais and taking Hebrew classes.
On Sundays, my parents often bring my sister and I to the Marais to visit my great grandmother, who lived just in front of the Musée Picasso.
From time to time we would go down to the Rue des Rosiers, to try out some of the Jewish food specialties.
On school holidays, we go and stay with my grandparents in London, on Friday evenings we go to our local synagogue, celebrate Pessah and Hannukah.
In my early 20’s, I had the chance to travel and live around the world, studying Drama and Film in the United Kingdom, living in abroad in Australia and teaching English in Mexico.
On my return to Paris, I decided to become a tour guide because it provided a fantastic opportunity to meet new people and share my knowledge and fascinating stories while fulfilling my passion for Languages, History, and Foreign Culture study.
I have been working as a tour guide for 4 years now and I am in the process of passing a diploma in History and Art History to become a fully certified guide.
On the side, I work on theater improvisation and music projects.
I have a keen interest in the subject of the History of Jews, the History of the occupation during the IInd World War, as well as the Parisian classical and medieval architecture. Although the IInd World War period is often linked with a sense of fantasy and heroism for many people, for me, personally, it resounds with the French Half of my family’s trying to live through the occupation and surviving the Holocaust…
Today, one of my favorite aspects of being a tour guide with Flora, is meeting people from all over the world and showing them around, not only the Jewish heritage but also the many facets of the city we grew up in.
Caroline
I am Caroline and I am a tour guide in Paris !
I specialized in decorative arts and architecture in College. I continued my studies in the School of the Louvre where I studied Archeology, History, Art History … and I specialized in Design from the 18th century to the early 20th century as well as Museography.
I graduated from my History of Arts Master’s degree in 2018.
Since then, I organized lectures, exhibitions and made cultural mediations in Parisian museums.
Connecting with people and understanding their needs for culture is personally and professionally enriching. What I liked the most from all these years was to work with a different audience because you have to adapt every time and it is much more fun! For instance, working with kids on a contemporary art tour taught me a lot about myself and even changed my perception of modern art. The kids are very bright and provide new and fresh answers. They make unbelievable connections and add more energy and motivation.
I have been working on a die project for several years, making research on a French artist from the Art deco period (1910s) who was collected back at the time by the Rothschild family. I felt an immediate passion for his work and the early Art deco period which took place in the 1910s. That’s why, I did not stop there and started to read and research every art movement that emerged back then. My all time favorite is the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design who came from Jerusalem in the 1910s and produced many artifacts from jewels of Yemenite tradition to silverwork of Ashkenasi design.
Learning about Jewish artists connected me more to my own Jewish culture in many ways. I even started to read Hebrew and I hope I will improve soon !
Being Jewish, eating kosher (I would love to recommend to you my favorite places in the Marais), keeping Shabbat and celebrating the holidays made me feel the need to work for the Jewish community.
That is why I met Flora Goldenberg, with whom I share the same ideals and who trained me as a tour guide.
Discovering Paris (and it never ends!) is a very special feeling that I love to share with you. I am passionate about Paris’ old history and I even served as a guide in the Musée Carnavalet which is also located in the heart of the Marais and covers all of Paris’ History.
I would be delighted to make you discover my city from a Local Jewish perspective !
Eden
Jewish Tour guide in Paris, he can tour in Hebrew / English / French
Eden is a tour guide in Paris, specialized in the Jewish tour in Le Marais.
He is a translator and a Hebrew teacher in Paris. He learned to speak a little Yiddish and German.
He plays Klezmer Music, in Parisian bars and Coffee shops, he mastered the clarinet instrument. Born in Israel, in a Kibboutz in the Neguev, until the age of 8 surrounded by the warmth of the collective life, before he moved to Kfar-Saba, a city not far from Tel-Aviv.Eden’s passion began when he studied philosophy in Jerusalem, seeing everyday from the window of the classroom : the amazing Old City, a labyrinth of history, religion and culture. Knowing that every monument, every church or synagogue have their own history, he quickly started learning about these fantastic and mystical places.
The growing interest for Jewish history came him after he moved to Paris where he got to know and work with the Jewish community in this beautiful city, starting in the Shoah Memorial as an official tour guide.
After living a few years in Paris, he started realizing that the Judaism of today is inextricably related to its diasporic existence and heritage. and the Jewish heritage of Paris is of one of the richest and the most diverse !
Contact : Flora.goldenberg@gmail.com
Marie
My name is Marie, I’m thirty years-old and I live and work in Paris. I was born
and raised in Normandy. At 16, I left the lovely countryside for my studies. I
settled in my great grand-parents house in Boulogne, rue des arts. As the
name of the street indicates, great artists had resided in those house-ateliers
built by the Architect Le Corbusier.
He had planned to build three on the same parcel. One for Chaim Lipschitz,
one for Oscar Miestchaninoff and one for Marc Chagall. All accomplished and
renowned Jewish artists from Eastern Europe. Rumor has it Marc Chagall was
not interested and told Victor Canale (my great-great-grandfather) about the
plot, which he bought. Victor Canale then copied the plans of Le Corbusier
and created his own house ! I come from a family of artists: engravers,
sculptors, enamelers and so on. My great-grand-father, Raymond Corbin
taught in les Beaux Arts of Paris and was a member of the Institut de France.
He was a renowned engraver and a sculptor with many distinctions including
the Blumenthal Prize in 1936 1 as sculptor and medallist. During the war he
and my great-great-grandmother Charlotte Corbin, made utilitarian ceramics
to survive and help the people around them. After the war, he was chosen
along other sculptors to create a high relief representing the Resistance in the
Maquis for the Mémorial of the Mont-Valérien, near Paris, which was
inaugurated by Charles de Gaulle in 1960.
I was lucky enough to spend my young years with them. After their passing,
enriched by their passion and knowledge, I decided to study art history in
University. During my master degree, I specialised in the spoliations that
happened to the Jews due to the antisemitic legislations of the occupant and
the regime of Vichy. I worked in a commission, the CIVS, to provide
compensation for the material and financial spoliations that took place in
France during the Occupation. I got to explore the archives, hoping to find
traces of looted artworks to return. I had the pleasure to witness the
restitutions of great artworks stolen during the occupation and placed in the
care of renowned museums after the war. These numerous artworks were
waiting to be claimed by their owners. Despite the end of my work mission, my
interests for this period of our History kept growing stronger. I continued my
studies abroad, in Madrid and in North Macedonia.
I realize that what I liked the most was sharing knowledge so I became a certified guide by the State and today, I work with Flora Goldenberg on her original Jewish tour of Paris
In 2019, I was hired by the Shoah Memorial of Paris in the pedagogical
department. Visit after visit, and it became more evident for me the importance to pass on
those memories.
By walking in the Marais, it is possible to uncover the history of the Jews in
Paris thanks to some traces that I invite you to discover with me.
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