Lodz
Polish City Has First Jewish Festival In Decades
The event was organized by a rabbi whose job is to bring back to the fold of Judaism descendants of traumatized Holocaust survivors.
He Survived Holocaust And Had A Bar Mitzvah. Now His Grandson Returns To Bimah In Same Polish Synagogue
Philip Epstein has stood in the same exact spot on two separate occasions, 72 years apart.
How Henryk Ross’s Amazing Photos Unearthed The History Of Lodz — And Mine As Well
“These people were ghettoized: they knew that they were being herded like animals. Yet you see people smiling into the cameras.”
Breathtaking Postcards Bring Lost Synagogues Back To Life
For lost synagogues in Slovakia, Moravia and Ukraine, sometimes an antique postcard is the only way we can still remember.
Lodz Gets First New Torah Scroll Since Holocaust
The Jewish community of the Polish city of Lodz received its first new Torah scroll since World War II, its rabbi said.
In Chicago, Poles and Jews Come Together for Lodz
A commemoration in Chicago marking 70 years since the liquidation of the Lodz ghetto offers American Jews and Polish Americans the chance to find common ground.
Avraham Verdiger, 92, Was Haredi Labor's Last Leader
Avraham Verdiger, who died November 27, was the last Knesset representative of Haredi Judaism’s dwindling labor-progressive wing, Poalei Agudat Yisrael.
Czeslaw Milosz Honored at Festival in Lodz
Crossposted from Haaretz
The Jewish Underworld in Song
On the Yiddish Song of the Week blog, Forverts associate editor Itzik Gottesman writes about “Din Toyre,” a song that deals with the question of Justice, in both the mundane and cosmic senses. The performance was “recorded by Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman in the Bronx, 1980s. The singer was a neighbor, M. Bauman, from either Lodz or Warsaw.”
Arthur Szyk: A 'Master Illuminator' Illuminated
I spent a couple of informative hours last Tuesday evening at “Methods of a Master Illuminator,” a new exhibit of Arthur Szyk’s art showing at the Broome Street Gallery through April 25. Irv Ungar, a dealer and foremost expert on Szyk’s work, and co-curator Allison Chang, have assembled an impressive collection of original art, prints, bound books, and some lesser known pencil sketches, that readily satisfy both the already initiated and the not-yet-initiated, who may have heard of, but never explored up-close, the craft of a ‘master illuminator.’