Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak

Ghost Citizens: Jewish Return To A Postwar City

By Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak 02/27/2022 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Freighted Legacies

The poignant story of Holocaust survivors who returned to their hometown in Poland and tried to pick up the pieces of a shattered world.

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the lives of Polish Jews were marked by[…]

Freud’s Emissaries

By Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak 12/12/2021 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Freighted Legacies

The Cultural Transfer of Psychoanalysis to the Polish Intelligentsia before WWII

Dr. Lena Magnone, a specialist in the history of psychoanalysis and its influence on Polish culture, completed her habilitation five years ago. We will glimpse some aspects of this 1100 page magnum opus, which is currently being translated into English by Dr. Tul’si Bhambry. Freud’s Emissaries discuss the life trajectories of Polish Jews, rebellious men and women who joined[…]

The Curious Story of Polish-Yiddish Tangos

By Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak 11/28/2021 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Freighted Legacies

The beguiling Argentinian tango zigzagged to Paris, Eastern Europe (especially Poland), then to America. Along the way, it picked up a musical doppelgänger – Yiddish tangos. The Jewish contribution to popular music and tangos in Poland is a significant piece in understanding the symbiosis of Polish and Jewish musical culture through the 1930s. “The Curious Story of Polish-Yiddish Tangos” will investiga[…]

The Honey and The Sting

By Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak 10/31/2021 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Freighted Legacies

Author Rabbi Walter Rothschild and Guests

A comprehensive introduction to Judaism in Polish…is there a need? The Honey and the Sting is about to be published in Polish. This project is an opening to people curious about modern Judaism both its merits and its struggles.[…]

History on Trial & Historians Tested – Can Governments Re-write History?

By Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak 10/10/2021 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Freighted Legacies

Grabowski’s research includes the issues surrounding the extermination of the Polish Jews as well as the history of the Jewish-Polish relations during the 1939-1945 period. He is the author of several monographs, including Hunt for the Jews. Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland (Indiana University Press, Bloomington &[…]

The Return of the Image of the Jew as Poland’s Threatening Other

By Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak 09/19/2021 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Freighted Legacies

Joanna Beata Michlic is a social and cultural historian, and founder and first Director of HBI (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust at Brandeis University. She is an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the UCL Centre for the Study of Collective Violence, the Holocaust and Genocide,[…]