Poland
Yiddish porn, Einstein’s letters and Rabbi Schneerson’s sermons united in ‘largest single remnant of Jewish life’ in Europe
“We have Yiddish pornography, and we’ve gotten the sermons of Rabbi Schneerson. That’s a people, that’s a civilization.”
Lecture: How Yiddish became one of the languages used at the POLIN Museum
The museum is the first and only one in the world to offer a Yiddish audio guide.
My father, the shoemaker
It was a miracle my father wasn’t beaten up by his peasant customers, since after any heavy rain, the boots could fall apart.
Why the exhibit on the Warsaw Jewish quarter, Muranow, is so good
One of the exhibit objects – a simple pair of scissors from that period – show us exactly what a typical tool used by Jews looked like.
Dozens of Jewish headstones found under Polish town’s square
Leżajsk, located about 120 miles south of Warsaw, was 90% Jewish before the Holocaust.
Jewish cemetery in Poland vandalized with spray-paint
Removing the spray-paint will not be easy, the cemetery keeper said, and scraping the paint will leave traces.
Poland’s oldest rescuer of Jews reveals an epic WWII story
When Nazis caught Jozef Walaszczyk and his future Jewish wife in a hotel room, he hatched an ingenious plan.
I went to Poland to research my family’s history. I found a new generation to tell it to.
I am an adjunct professor at New York University writing a book about the intergenerational transmission of trauma.
Former Polish Priest Indicted For Hate Speech And Holocaust Denial
It’s not the first time that Jacek Miedlar, an activist in Poland’s nationalist movement, has had trouble with the law.
Pelosi-led Congressional delegation visits Krakow Jewish Center
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the Jewish community center in Krakow along with a congressional delegation and received honorary membership.