The 100-year-old Polish actress Danuta Szaflarska will play the same role that Ida Kaminska played in the film The Shop on Main Street; an anti-Semitic scandal broke out over the Chopin Piano CompetitionRead More
Rare Jewish paintings are on display at the municipal museum in Praga; who is learning Yiddish at the Shalom Foundation?Read More
UNESCO debates the status of Jewish cemeteries in Warsaw, Berlin, Lodz and Budapest; Sholem Asch Festival in Kutna.Read More
Is the comparison between today’s Arab immigrants and Jewish refugees of the Holocaust historically justified; no Jewish organization or individual supports the Yiddish class at Public School 166.Read More
The Holocaust denier David Irving has made a business of Holocaust tourism; Nowy Sacz - an old Hasidic shtetl.Read More
Photography workshop compares streets and buildings in Warsaw today with the same spots before the war; book in Polish about the “False Messiah” is a bestseller.Read More
Upcoming conference in memory of I. L. Peretz will take place in October in his hometown, Zamosç; Bobover Rebbe Mordechai Dovid Unger brings over 300 Hasidim to Poland to visit the graves of their ancestors.Read More
The organization, Shavei Israel, aims to bring children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors in Poland back to the Jewish people; the Joint hosts a weeklong retreat for Jewish families.Read More
The 12th Bashevis-Singer Festival of Jewish Culture in Warsaw will feature a long list of shows, art exhibits and presentations related to Yiddish culture.Read More
An Israeli journalist from Maariv claims that the most popular slogan in Poland today is “Jews to the gas chambers”; a program is held at the Jewish Museum for young people from Poland, Germany and Israel.Read More