Leaders of Poland’s far-right party enter the European Parliament and a Jewish festival with a Polish connection is held in Copenhagen.Read More
The oldest Jewish musician in the country, Leopold Kozlowski, has turned 96; statistics verify that it isn’t easy for the Jews.Read More
An exhibit about Galicia will connect historical materials with the work of contemporary artists; the new state-sponsored Jewish day school will include Yiddish classes.Read More
As European parliament elections approach, the xenophobic right-wing is getting ever stronger, but the left-wingers hasn’t been friendly to Jews either; a group of respected experts of Yiddish language and literature will be teaching in the Yiddish summer course in Warsaw.Read More
A performance at the Yiddish Theater about Jerzy Jurandot, well-known author of poems; a weekend in Otwock celebrating Yom Haatzmaut.Read More
The 100th birthday of the rescuer of Jews Jan Karski; an animated film about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising that is full of stereotypes and the well known photographer Ryszard Horowitz receives an honorary title from the city of Cracow.Read More
A Jewish film festival is being held at the new Jewish Museum; a play speculates what Jewish Warsaw would look like had the Holocaust never happened.Read More
A photo exhibit depicts pre-war Jewish Warsaw; a commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; a well-known Polish actress and writer discovers her Jewish roots.Read More
The work of the ghetto poet, Wladyslaw Szlengel, has become an esteemed part of Holocaust literature in Polish; renovations underway for the Praga (Brodno) Jewish cemetery.Read More
A 101-year-old woman who saved Jews in Warsaw is honored, an Italian tourist is arrested for stealing barbed-wire from Auschwitz and 80 Israeli students staying in a hotel in Lublin had to flee a fire.Read More