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Director Maja Kleczewska plans to stage An-sky’s “Dybbuk” in the context of the Holocaust rather than a classic text; Hasidim from abroad are coming to Warsaw for the yortsayt of Rebbe Elimelech of LizenskRead More
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The Jewish Museum in Warsaw leads a Purim workshop for kids; the Yiddish theater is preparing a revival of An-Sky’s “Dybbuk”Read More
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The Polish film Ida, which received the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, has created great controversy among Polish nationalists.Read More
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The official photograph of Warsaw is the famous picture of a Jewish boy in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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Zygmunt Miłoszewski’s novel uses its exciting subject to mention events which many Poles would rather not speak about, although they know that Jews were not only murdered by the Germans.Read More
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An exhibition of the Felix Warburg Colony; the journalist Roman Frister has died.Read More
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Interview with Jewish community leader Artur Hofman; two Greenbergs in the field of Polish culture; fragment of a Torah scroll from the 18th century is discovered.Read More
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The director of the Auschwitz Museum speaks about “the last witnesses” of the Holocaust; the Jewish public school will teach a weekly class in learning Yiddish through song.Read More
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Handing the reins of Jewish institutions over to non-Jews has not been productive so far.Read More
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Jewish Museum in Warsaw is organizing first conference on Interculturalism; Polish translation of Jewish children’s story doesn’t reflect Jewish life at all.Read More
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Jacob “Kobi‟ Weitzner received his doctorate in Yiddish studies from Hebrew University in 1984. Today he is the literary director of the Warsaw Yiddish theater, and the artistic director and playwright for “The Yiddish Bande‟, a traveling Yiddish troupe. He has authored several books, among them: Sholem Aleichem in the Theater and Where the City Ends and the River Begins (Tel Aviv Stories) and an anthology of short stories.Read More
יעקבֿ “קאָבי ווײַצנער” האָט באַקומען זײַן דאָקטאָר־טיטל אין ייִדיש-לימודים בײַם העברעיִשן אוניווערסיטעט אין 1984. הײַנט איז ער דער ליטעראַרישער לייטער פֿונעם וואַרשעווער ייִדישן טעאַטער און דער קינסטלערישער לייטער און דראַמאַטורג פֿון דער “ייִדישע באַנדע”, אַ וואַנדערנדיקע ייִדישע טרופּע. מחבר פֿון אַ צאָל ביכער, צווישן זיי Sholem Aleichem in the Theater און ,Where the City Ends and the River Begins (Tel Aviv Stories) אַן אַנטאָלאָגיע פֿון קורצע דערציילונגען.Read More