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Food A Taste of the Shtetl at Warsaw’s New Jewish Museum
Making sure food is part of a museum is not an easy task — fresh dishes will perish, plastic ones miss the point. But, at Warsaw’s new Museum of the History of Polish Jews, food, drink and the special Jewish relationship to eating and drinking will be a recurring thread woven throughout the yet to…
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News Half of Polish Students Don’t Want Jewish Neighbor
Forty-four percent of Warsaw high school students don’t want a Jewish neighbor. This is one of the findings in a new poll of 1,250 students in 20 Warsaw high schools. The poll was conducted by the Center for Research on Prejudice at Warsaw University. It’s findings came April 16, just days before the commemoration of…
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Opinion Warsaw on My Mind
In a city built on the scars of its destruction, I’ve come to Warsaw hobbled with old scars of my own. As the daughter of Polish Jews, I never felt drawn to the country where they died. Until last month, when it became clear that I must make the trip to attend the 70th commemoration…
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News Poland Plans Monument to Righteous Gentiles on Site of Warsaw Ghetto
A fight over memory overshadows Poland’s commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The controversy surfaced as the April 19 commemoration neared, with information from prominent Jewish activists that the government intended to use the occasion to announce plans for a monument to Righteous Gentiles on the grounds of the former ghetto,…
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Breaking News Polish Jewish Museum Opens as Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 70th Anniversary Nears
Krzysztof Sliwinski, a longtime Catholic activist in Jewish-Polish relations, gazed wide-eyed at the swooping interior of this city’s Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Nearly two decades in the making, the more than $100 million institution officially opens to the public this week amid a month of high-profile, state-sponsored events marking the 70th anniversary…
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Breaking News Poland Has One Month Supply of Kosher Meat Left
Poland’s Jewish community has about a one month supply of kosher meat left, following a ban on ritual slaughter that went into effect at the beginning of the year. Piotr Kadlcik, president of the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland, confirmed to JTA on Monday from Warsaw that Poland will run out of kosher…
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Breaking News Polish President Sponsors Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Commemoration
Polish President Bronisław Komorowski this week announced his sponsorship of events commemorating the 70th anniversay of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Nazis’ destruction of Warsaw’s Great Synagogue. Komorowski welcomed in advance the delegations from around the world that will attend the events, scheduled to take place between April 18 and May 16. Among the…
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Culture Anti-Semitism Sweeps Poland and Vienna
Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75 and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illuminating and edifying clippings from the Jewish past. 100 Years Ago 1913 Anti-Semitism has washed over Poland like a plague. It has poisoned minds,…
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