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Fast Forward ‘Hunt for Jews’ Wins Yad Vashem Book Award
Prof. Jan Grabowski of the University of Ottawa in Canada was awarded the 2014 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research. Grabowski was awarded the prize for his book “Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland,” the Holocaust museum and memorial said in a statement. The award was presented at Yad…
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News Chasing Ghosts, Reviving Spirits: The Fall and Rise of Poland’s Jews
By the fourth day of my weeklong reporting trip to Poland, I was struggling to make sense of the crushing contradictions. I had felt the palpable excitement unleashed by the newly opened exhibit at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, a rich, sophisticated retelling of the Jews’ thousand-year sojourn in Poland, built on…
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Fast Forward Polish Town Plans To Turn Jewish Cemetery Into Apartment Complex
A town in central Poland has prepared a development plan that will turn a Jewish cemetery into a residential complex with underground parking. The Jewish community of Warsaw and local activist Robert Augustyniak, who is not Jewish, have protested the plan. The City Council in Grodzisk Mazowiecki held a public discussion on the plan on…
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Culture A Monument to the World Before the Holocaust
“At the end of the world, there is a high mountain, and on that mountain, there is a huge rock, and from that huge rock a pure spring comes gushing out. And at the other end of the world, there is the heart of the world… And the heart of the world gazes and gazes…
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News Poland Museum Only Tip of Cultural Revival Iceberg
(JTA) — Crowds have been streaming to Warsaw’s POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews since its core exhibition opened Oct. 28 at a high-profile ceremony led by the presidents of Poland and Israel. Thousands of visitors have toured the museum’s eight interactive galleries that tell the 1,000-year story of Jewish life in Poland and…
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Forward 50 2014 Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
After some two decades of planning, the doors have finally opened on the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The museum, according to the Forward’s A.J. Goldmann, will be “one of the most significant Jewish cultural projects in contemporary Europe” as it seeks to “tell the story of the Jewish people’s 1,000-year…
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The Schmooze The U.S. Tried to Arrest Roman Polanski At Jewish Museum Opening
Getty Images The United States government still really wants to arrest director Roman Polanski — and what better place to catch him than the Polish Jewish history museum? Polanski, who was arrested (but never sentenced) for sexually assaulting a 13-year old girl in 1977, was attending the grand opening of Museum of the History of…
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Opinion When Israel’s Chickens Come Home to Poop
The policies of Israel’s longest-serving prime minister are starting to bear an eerie resemblance to climate change: The critics all look like a bunch of whining scaremongers prophesying an implausibly apocalyptic ruination that’s sure to come in some fuzzily distant end-time. Even if it’s true, it’s too far away to worry about. That is, until…
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