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Roman Frister celebrates his 86th birthday and soccer fans who yelled “Jews to the gas chambers” were not acting in an anti-Semitic manner according to Polish prosecutors.Read More
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World premiere of the film “Run, Boy, Run” in the Jewish Museum of Warsaw.Read More
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Everyone in Warsaw knows who Daniel Olbrychski is but few know who Abraham Goldfaden was. Thanks to the Polish “Star” many in Warsaw have learned some theater history.Read More
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A museum will be built in Markowa in honor of gentiles killed trying to save Jews during the Holocaust and Poland’s submission to the Oscars is eliminated from consideration for best foreign film.Read More
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Anti-Semitic pornographic graffiti is spray-painted on the walls of a Polish train station, anti-Semitic opinions are expressed at an environmental conference and Polish society debates reprinting Hitler’s Mein Kampf in Poland.
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The 88th yortsayt of Ester Rachel Kamińska; in a new book, Holocaust survivors describe their childhood under the Nazis.Read More
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News from Poland: Archeologists find the Bund’s archive, a French Prime-Minister’s library is auctioned off including an important Holocaust document from 1942 and two Turkish tourists make a Nazi salute in Auschwitz.Read More
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The Joint in Poland has run its annual Limmud conference and the Israeli firm Teva helps sponsor “the Sholem Asch” festival.Read More
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News from Poland: Polish-Jewish leadership criticizes a report about them in Forbes magazine.Read More
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A Polish delegation attends the Israeli Jewish Congress and the Krakow History Museum debates the behavior of students at its Holocaust exhibition.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