Josh Horowitz and Cookie Segelstein, two of the three members of the band, performing violin and accordion music from their Polish klezmer CD. Brostoff will discuss with them unique features of Polish klezmer music. Veretski Pass has performed throughout Poland frequently.
SPECIAL REPORT
Ukrainian Refugee Relief and Beit Polska Redevelopment
The women and children who fled to Poland after Russia attacked Ukraine on February 24, 2022, were traumatized, hungry, and without shelter. Your compassionate response allowed Beit Polska/Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland to assume a significant leadership role in addressing their[…]
Conscious History
Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust
Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust is a historical triumph focused on the Polish Jewish ethos that developed in post-World War I, newly independent Poland. The emergence of the historian as a public intellectual, academic expert, and community leader is an inspiring saga. Opposition to Jews in Poland included mild forms of suspicion and increasingly new forms of antisemitism that were racial.[…]
Polish Jewish Art Music
Klezmer music has dominated the conversations about the post-communist Jewish culture renaissance in Poland.
However, creative activity in art music (classical music) has its own proud history, beginning with the virtuoso pianist and composer Maria Szymanowska in the late 18th century We will listen to one of her nocturnes, which strongly influenced Frederic Chopin’s compositional style. The webinar will offer[…]
Beit Polska Relief Efforts Name: Janusz Korczak Child Relief
Beit Polska refugee relief efforts announced its official name today – Janusz Korczak Society Child Relief. At the behest of the World Union for Progressive Judaism president Rabbi Sergio Bergman, we shared a few anecdotes about the immediate efforts to aid refugees in Poland initiated by our community and many other Polish civic groups.[…]
Polish Civil Society Efforts to Address Ukrainian Refugee
The Kielce Example
There are circles of kindness in the midst of terrible displacement and the agonies of the past.
Today a powerful direction for Kielce as it responded to the current mass of refugees from Ukraine. The generosity of the Polish people has been quite profound throughout this month of war and fleeing refugees. In Warsaw, the estimate is that 70% of its population responded in one fashion or[…]
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