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,[…]
The Musical Commitments of a Survivor – Cantor David Wisnia
Cantor David S. Wisnia has a remarkable voice, and he uses it to tell his remarkable story. He is fluent in multiple languages and received his vocal training in his native Poland as a student of renown Cantors Sirota and Koussevitsky. He served as Cantor of Temple Shalom in Levittown, PA for 28 years, and recently retired after 23 years as Cantor of Har Sinai Congregation of Trenton, NJ. David Wisnia is a member of[…]
Bogdan’s Journey with Bogdan Bialek, Directors Jaskulski and Loewinger
A conversation with the eponymous Bogdan Bialek and the film’s co-directors Lawrence Loewinger (USA) and Michal Jaskulski (Poland) on July 4, 2021. Marek Jezowski and Haim Beliak host this discussion. Greetings from members of the Kielce societies and their descendants including: Ya’akov Kotlicki, Manny Becker, Sydney Machtinger and Noa Marco.
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