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Fast Forward Auschwitz Museum ‘May Not Reflect Real Facts’ Says Hungarian Lawmaker
A lawmaker for the ultra-nationalist Jobbik party in Hungary said the Auschwitz death camp museum “may not reflect real facts.” Tamas Gaudi-Nagy made the statement on Thursday during a discussion in Parliament on a proposal to facilitate visits by teenagers or young adults to the former Nazi camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, where approximately one million…
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Books Edouard de Pomiane’s ‘Recollections and Recipes’
Last week, Rebecca Miller wrote about Gluckel of Hameln. She has been sharing texts that shed light on the history of Jewish life in France, the setting of her new novel, Jacob’s Folly. Her blog posts are featured on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog Series….
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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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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