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The Polish government thinks it‘s wrong to blame the Polish people or the Church as a whole for anti-Semitic acts.Read More
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Artist Marcin Koźliński is producing an animation film about the forgotten Golem of Chelm; First trimester of public Jewish day school was a success.Read More
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lead dreidels discovered under the former Vilna ghetto; Hanukkah candles lit in Korczak’s orphanage; children perform “Joseph and his Brothers”.Read More
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Workshop teaches Polish children about Hanukkah; British prime minister visits Auschwitz MuseumRead More
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Seeking relatives of pre-Holocaust letter writers in Krakow; new Polish translation of Memorial Book of the shtetl, Sierpc.Read More
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A new book about Jewish youth in Poland between 1956 and 1968; an ad in Maariv stereotypes Polish Jewish women.Read More
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New book quotes accusations that the pianist, Wladislaw Szpilman, was a Nazi collaborator; the film “Różyczka” is shown in the Jewish MuseumRead More
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The Otwock Spa Hotel, once popular among Jews, will be renovated; athletes transport abandoned Jewish gravestones to Warsaw.Read More
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Preparations underway for premiere of Hanoch Levin’s “Queen of the Bathtub”; exhibit of martyred Jewish painters; film “Di Shpilke” wins first prize at Jewish film festival.Read More
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For many years, the US has paid former Nazi war criminals social security, and yet Roman Polansky has been forced to hide from the American courts.
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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