A new book about the Bund is published; film festival highlights the work of Polish-Jewish cinematographer Adam Holender.Read More
Work has begun on a Yiddish production, “The Shtetl of Kasrilevke”; in the new book, “Revakh”, Poles tell how they discovered their Jewish roots.Read More
Not one Israeli dignitary attends the ceremony memorializing Warsaw Ghetto fighters; Mordkhe Gebirtig’s songs sound beautiful in Esperanto.Read More
Warsaw members of Hashomer Hatzair take part in annual Shomrim ceremony; no demonstrations yet against Syrian government’s chemical attack.Read More
Disturbing headline in a German history magazine at the Goethe Institute in Warsaw; main hall in new theater named Szymon Szurmiej Hall after its late director.Read More
Poland celebrates 100th birthday of poet Zuzanna Ginczanka (Sara Ginzburg); frightening flight for Hasidic passengers on the way to visit grave of Rabbi Elimelekh of Lezhensk.Read More
Title of new art album by Lodz museum is not accurate; why are there no longer any new plays in Yiddish?Read More
Premiere of film about zoo director and his wife, who hid Jews from the Nazis; resourceful Israeli yeshiva students figure out how to cut costs on their school’s trips to Poland.Read More
Exhibit about the Jewish inventor of Nivea skin cream, Oscar Troplowitz; exhibit in Polin Museum marks 100 years of Jewish record albums.Read More
Yaakov Gross, who digitalized Yiddish films from Poland, has died; 74th yortsayt of Bund leader Victor Alter.Read More