FOSTERING A VIBRANT RENEWAL OF JUDAISM IN POLAND
Freighted Legacies Webinar
January 12, 2025
10AM Los Angeles / 1PM New York / 6PM London / 7PM Warsaw / 8PM Jerusalem
Dr. Robert Bernheim Will Discuss
“Citizen Diplomacy in Poland: Have A Bagel.”
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When Jews visit Poland, the past can present itself as a complex matter. Historian Bernheim created a unique people-to-people experience that framed his visit to his great-grandfather’s village. Robert Bernheim’s third visit to his great grandfather’s Polish hometown, Kanczuga, Poland, and the place of the old bakery was an inspired attempt to connect to the town’s residents. He began making bagels. Over thirty years of visiting Poland, Professor Bernheim has formed important ideas about what we should seek in these visits. Join in an intimate journey told by an unusual “bagel” emissary.
Citizen Diplomacy is associated with the work of Joseph Montville (1937 -2022). Montville was a force of reason and passion in furthering peace. He insisted on cultural encounters’ deep and transforming power for understanding. Citizens are invited to share and build bonds of friendship.
Robert and Patricia Bernheim live in China, Maine. Robert is an Associate Professor of History (Holocaust and Genocide Studies) at the University of Maine at Augusta and the founder of Feivel’s Old World Bagels and Bakery. Patricia is a consultant with Mary Kay and the CEO of ReUse ME, a nonprofit providing makers and tinkerers opportunities to use their skills for local and global good while inspiring a repurposing revolution as a collective of bona fide craftivists. In the spring of 2024, Robert & Patricia began reintroducing bagels to Southeast Poland as part of a concerted effort at bagel diplomacy.
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Freighted Legacies is planning a series of film discussions on visits to Poland that will include movies such as, Treasure (2024, featuring Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry), and A Real Pain (2024, by Jesse Eisenberg).
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