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
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?
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
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,[…]