The museum serves as an important symbol of the Jewish life that once thrived here but surprisingly, devotes little space to the shtetl and the Hasidic movement.Read More
An exhibit of the painter, Maurycy Gottlieb, in a Lodz Museum; a Holocaust survivor in Israel seeks info on her parents through the website of the Jewish Museum in Warsaw.Read More
The Jewish Museum was packed at a recent event highlighting Mikolaj Grynberg’s new book “I accuse Auschwitz”.Read More
After the Germans deported the Jews to the death camps, it was the Poles, not the Germans, who moved into their apartments.Read More
The Warsaw Yiddish Theater honors film director Janusz “Kuba” Morgenstern; three performances of Fiddler on the Roof in honor of its 50th anniversary.Read More
Personal objects are uncovered in the former death camp of Sobibor; a new branch of Hashomer Hatzair in Warsaw includes a kosher kitchen.Read More
The directors don׳t care how their actors pronounce the Yiddish words, since no one understands it anyway.Read More
Honoring 115 years since the birth of Yiddish actress, Ida Kaminska; a new public school with a full Jewish curriculum.Read More
Difficulties with Yiddish pronunciation by Israeli and Polish actors today; due to sanctions on Russia, Polish apples are reaching Russia via Israeli companies.Read More
A Jewish woman is swindled by an Arab in Haifa; Polish newspaper lists 10 Jews who made world-changing inventions.Read More