Dr. Jan Miklas-Frankowski will visit Temple Beth Israel of Pomona on December 15 at 9 a.m.  The morning includes conversation about pop culture but also a celebration of the long-term twinning relationship of Beit Polska and Beth Israel. At 10 a.m. the community will join in the webinar on Jan Grabowski’s Whitewash: Poland and The Jews. Temple Beth Israel is located at 3033 North Towne Avenue in Pomona.

Jan Miklas-Frankowski is the chair of Beit Trojmiasto (BT) since 2022. He was a member of the board of BT 2018-2021. He is an assistant professor at the Institute of Media, Journalism and Communication; Faculty of Social Sciences; University of Gdansk. His main area of research includes contemporary Polish reportage and literature with a particular interest in Polish-Jewish issues, the Holocaust representations and relations between literary reportage, history and memory, as well as Polish Gonzo and the work of Czesław Miłosz and Olga Tokarczuk.

Oliwa (a district of Gdańsk where Beit Trójmiasto is located) is his place in the world — his family has been living here for three generations. He lives here now with his wife Magdalena, 3 sons (Filip, Julian and Dawid), white Swiss shepherd and 4 cats. He is a player of a handball University team. He loves to run across Oliwa‘s hills with his dog Bisia and plays the acoustic guitar.