Three noted academics will address the challenges shaping Ukraine today. The bravery of the Ukrainian people is inspirational. What has created the remarkable resistance and cohesion the world has witnessed?
Letters to My Father
Excavating a Jewish Identity in Poland and Belarus with author Kathleen A. Balgley
Join Kathleen A. Balgley in a discussion of just released Letters to My Father:
Excavating a Jewish Identity in Poland and Belarus. Kathleen Balgley’s memoir begins with her childhood discovery of her father’s hidden Jewish[…]
Neal Brostoff, Pianist /Music Historian, Introduces Us to the Polish Klezmer of Veretski Pass
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[…]