Bialystok, Poland February 12, 2014 Father Wojciech Lemanski visited Bialystok, Poland yesterday on a trip to promote his new book, written in co-operation with the journalist Anna Wacławik-Orpik. Despite a busy schedule, Fr. Lemanski took time to visit a controversial fountain located in a public park. The defunct fountain was constructed in the 1950s or 1960s from Jewish gravestones. Fr. Lemanski […]
Rabbi Beliak’s Poland Visit 2014
Shalom Aleichem – May Peace be with You* * Malinowski Lech, “Szalom Alejchem – Pokój Wam”, published in the “Kurier Międzyrzecki”, nr 2 (276), p. 23 As part of the “Second Meeting with Jewish Culture” at the Museum in Międzyrzecz a lecture entitled “Judaism – the elder brother of Christianity” took place. The guest-speaker was […]
Rabbi Havivi Visits and Teaches in Poland, January 2014
Rabbi Avi Havivi visited Poland in January for a whirlwind ten days of lectures, visits and friendship development. Beit Polska’s program of encouraging rabbis and other informed teacher from the various movements of Judaism attempts to teach and inspire people who are curious about Judaism. Dr Havivi gave a formal academic presentation at the annual Day of Judaism conference […]
THE CROOKED MIRROR: A MEMOIR OF POLISH-JEWISH RECONCILIATION BY LOUISE STEINMAN
[maxbutton id=”2″ ] Retrieving a Family’s Thread in Poland Book Review by Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak *Note: Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland secured the rights to the Polish translation in June, 2020. Translation shall commence shortly. Louise Steinman’s The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish- Jewish Reconciliation, interrupts the two universes of meaning hanging […]
Preparing a conversation about “Aftermath” for American Jewish audiences
“Aftermath” is a movie thriller that powerfully focuses on issues related to Jews and Catholics — and many others — in the complex world of Poland during and after World War II. This Polish made film is not a documentary but uses elements from a Polish national conversation sparked by Princeton historian Jan Gross’ historical study entitled Neighbors. The book’s disturbing findings […]
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