From Mournful To Cool
Hilary Larson Travel Writer Lodz, Poland’s third-largest city, has long held a special resonance for Jewish visitors.This onetime outpost of the Russian and German Empires was among the world’s most...
View ArticleThe True Face Of Polish Jewry
The latest artistic news about Poland’s small-but-emerging Jewish community centers around Pawel Bramson, a skinhead-turned-Orthodox-Jew who’s featured in a new documentary, “The Moon is Jewish,” which...
View ArticleBeyond Semantics: 'Polish Death Camps' And The Suffering Of A Nation
In Poland last year to help the small Jewish community of Poznan lead its Pesach seders, I spent some time in a small café down the street from the city’s former synagogue (serving since communist...
View ArticlePoland And The Death Camps: Setting The Record Straight
Abraham H. Foxman Special To The Jewish Week It should be simple to make the proper distinction: Poland has a long and not distinguished history of anti-Semitism, including before, during, and after...
View ArticlePoles And The Holocaust: Another Side Of The Coin
Have you ever heard of Wincenty and Lucja Baranek, Adam and Bronislawa Kowalski or Josef and Wiktoria Ulma?If not, you’re not alone.They’re not well-known either in Poland, their homeland, where each...
View ArticleThe Best Place To Die
If you had to die, where would you do it? An Israeli professor of economics at Stanford University suggests a kibbutz. His grandmother, an unlettered seamstress who fled anti-Semitism in her native...
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The Gate To Poland’s Jewish Life
Small theater and educational organization in Lublin, founded by non-Jews, keeps memory of Polish Jewry alive. Steve Lipman Staff Writer Tue, 11/06/2012My itinerary in Lublin a few years ago included a...
View ArticleA Seder Comes To Szczecin
Steve Lipman Staff Writer In a northwest corner of Poland, an old-timer remembers a once vibrant Jewish community. Szczecin, Poland — The Jewish senior citizens, dressed in casual skirts and suits,...
View ArticleA Taste Of Poland’s Jewish Past
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Non-Jewish Poles establish Jewish-style restaurants throughout the country. Warsaw — At a corner table in the Pod Samsonem restaurant, under framed etchings of the Bible’s...
View ArticleTurning A New Page In Poland’s Jewish History
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Major Warsaw museum, opening April 19, has attracted support from non-Jewish Poles and Polish-born Holocaust survivors. Warsaw — Nine months before the start of World War II,...
View ArticleMixed Media: Never Forget What Was Never Reported
Ari L. Goldman Special To The Jewish Week Ethics fellowship at Auschwitz highlights failings of media — and others — in stopping the Shoah.Auschwitz, Poland — The philosopher Theodor Adorno famously...
View ArticleSomething Sinister In The Polish Soil
George Robinson Special To The Jewish Week Grave matters in ‘Aftermath,’ which borrows cleverly from the horror film genre. It is oddly appropriate that the new Polish drama “Aftermath” is opening on...
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A Revival Spreads
For isolated members of Poland’s Jewish community, a new online Jewish learning program. Steve Lipman Staff Writer Wed, 01/15/2014 A Jewish teen at a public school in a town in Poland was struggling...
View ArticleOld Traditions, New Faces At Polish Seders
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Twenty-five years after the fall of Communism, more signs of renewed Jewish life in small community. Wroclaw, Poland — The American-born chief rabbi of Lower Silesia stood at...
View ArticleIn Poland, A New National Debate On Hate
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Warsaw — A middle-aged, non-Jewish Polish man, driving a Jewish visitor from the States on a shopping errand one recent morning turned abruptly to his guest and asked, “What...
View ArticleJack The Ripper Identified As Jewish Barber From Poland
JTA The serial killer Jack the Ripper was identified through DNA as a Jewish barber who immigrated to London from Poland.read more
View ArticleLarge Jewish Cemetery In Warsaw Is Vandalized
JTA Warsaw, Poland — The fence of a Jewish cemetery in Warsaw considered to be one of the largest in Europe was defaced.read more
View ArticleFinding Death And Life In Poland
Hugh Pollack Special To The Jewish Week We came to Poland expecting to find death. And death we found in the death camp of Majdanek. It was situated with prewar homes and parks all around it, as if it...
View ArticlePoland’s Jewish Revival Seen Continuing Apace
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Sebastian Rejak has a role that's rare in Europe; he's an envoy of the Polish government to the Jewish diaspora. Raised a Catholic in Lublin, Sebastian Rejak has served for...
View ArticlePoland, Make Restitution, Urge State Officials In Letter
Stewart Ain Staff Writer New York State helped induce Swiss banks to compensate survivors and heirs, say comptrollers. The heads of three of the largest government pension funds in the United States...
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