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Fast Forward Warsaw Jews and Polish History Museum Bury Hatchet
(JTA) — Warsaw’s Jewish community and Poland’s main Jewish museum resolved their legal dispute over copyright in a bid to promote better relations based on unity between two of Poland’s most prominent Jewish institutions, the groups said in a joint statement. The joint statement last week follows a lawsuit filed last year by the community…
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Fast Forward TV Station Ordered To Apologize for Calling Nazi Camps ‘Polish’
(JTA) — A German public broadcasting station must apologize to a survivor of Auschwitz for calling the Nazi death camps “Polish death camps.” An appeals court in Krakow, Poland, announced the ruling on Thursday. Ninety-five year old Polish Holocaust survivor Karol Tendera filed the lawsuit against the ZDF broadcaster over a 2013 promotional trailer for a…
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Fast Forward Joseph Rotblat, Creator of the Atomic Bomb, Honored by Warsaw University
WARSAW, Poland — A marble plaque commemorating the late Joseph Rotblat, a co-creator of the atomic bomb and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was unveiled at the University of Warsaw. Rotblat, a Warsaw native, graduated from the university, where the plaque was unveiled Tuesday. “Joseph Rotblat, who in 1938 defended at our university a doctorate in…
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Fast Forward See Holocaust Righteous Gentiles in Posthumous 3D at New Polish Museum
— Polish and Israeli officials announced the future opening of an innovative museum honoring non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from the Holocaust. The museum is slated to open in 2018 in the center of Warsaw under the auspices of the TSKZ cultural association of Polish Jewry and the commemoration group From the…
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News Europe’s Jews See Donald Trump — and Worry About Their Own Surging Extremists
As the first results of the U.S. presidential election were released on November 8, the Union of French Jewish Students, which goes by the acronym UEJF, posted a worried note on its website. “Donald Trump, through his racist, anti-Semitic, sexist, conspiracy-theorist, xenophobic, misogynist, anti-abortion, pro-death penalty and torture positions, is a threat to human rights,…
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Culture Was Polish Culture Institute Director Fired For Too Much ‘Jewish-Themed Content?’
According to an article published yesterday on Artnet, Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska, the director and cultural manager of the Polish Culture Institute in Berlin, was fired from her post for “too much Jewish-themed content,” among other things. Wielga-Skolimowska’s contract was reportedly set to expire in the summer of 2017, but the dismissal order, given by Poland’s ultra…
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Fast Forward Poland Gives Final ‘No’ to Roman Polanski Extradition
Poland’s supreme court on Tuesday upheld an earlier verdict that Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski cannot be extradited to the United States over a 1977 child sex conviction, bringing a definitive end to the Polish case. The top court’s verdict marks a defeat for Polish Prosecutor General and Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro, who wanted to hand…
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Culture An Ambitious Book Helps Jews Navigate the Complexities of Going Home
This was originally in the print edition of February 20, 1998, and was posted online in December 2016. For some people, going home is a complicated matter — particularly after a long absence. But while some journeys of return are fraught with deep emotion and ambivalence, others are more like an odyssey, an obstacle course…
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