Film tells true story of girl who was called The Clown of Majdanek; generous supporter of Jewish causes, Jan Kulczyk, dies at 65Read More
An Irish airline announces flights from Krakow to Ovda, near Eilat; this year’s Warsaw Ghetto Commemoration honors the “little smugglers” of the ghetto.Read More
Students in this year’s Yiddish summer course came from all over – except Israel; a Polish-born Israeli journalist visits Poland and shares her impressions.Read More
Young non-Jews explain why Yiddish must be preserved as part of Poland’s cultural heritage; a poster for a Jewish school program was vandalized with photos of children’s heads being ripped off.Read More
A Ukrainian student in Poland spreads mocking picture of the Maidanek Holocaust Memorial on the internet; a new Yiddish translation of a play by August Strindberg.Read More
The Yiddish Foundation plans to create a Yiddish class in the state-sponsored Jewish day school; the Jewish Museum hires Hebrew-speaking assistants.Read More
13th international summer seminar in Yiddish language and culture begins; talk by Taduezc Rolkes, photographer of postwar Jewish Warsaw.Read More
Conference about the Japanese Righteous Gentile, Chiune Sugihara, in Warsaw; end-of-year ceremony for students of the Jewish university for senior citizensRead More
A short film, made in gas chambers, makes fun of the Jews killed there; the Morasha school, where most of the teachers are gentiles, wants to become more Jewish.Read More
Few Jews remain in Poland, but the Jewish Question has remained; actors from the Warsaw Yiddish Theater are getting roles in international film productions.Read More