Polish Jews
Forverts Seeks More Stories About Your Favorite Heirlooms
Earlier this year, the Forverts asked readers to submit anecdotes and photos of their favorite heirlooms.
The Holocaust Activist Who’s Warning Poland — About Danger Posed By Jews
In Poland these days, the head of the country’s highest-profile Holocaust remembrance group is warning Poles that attacks on their country are coming from the “leftist Jewish media.”
What Did Poor Jews in the Shtetl Eat?
Jewish villagers may have gone hungry during the week but the community always provided them with at least fish and challah for shabbos.
Poland’s Defense Minister Fends Off Anti-Semitism Allegations By Citing His Support For Israel
Fending off charges that he has promoted anti-Semitism, Poland’s defense minister Thursday cited the support he and his government give to Israel and comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praising Poland for this support.
Meet The Jewish Activist Who Boosts Trump, Netanyahu — And A Powerful Anti-Semitic Polish Priest
Leaders of Poland’s Jewish community were deeply upset last month when President Trump defied precedent to be the first American leader in decades to forego visiting the monument that commemorates the doomed revolt of Warsaw’s Jews against the Nazis.
A Year for Polish Jewry
Two decades in the making, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw finally opened this fall. How will the Jewish ‘Louvre’ change our view of the country?
Remembering How Polish Jews Lived, Not Just How They Died
A new museum in Warsaw preserves the 1,000-year history of Polish Jewry. One of its funders argues it’s important to remember a world before the Holocaust.
Polish Jewish Museum Names New Director
Andrew Cudak began work as the new interim director of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.