Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland
Lech Lecha – God speaks to Abram, commanding him, “Go from your land, from your birthplace and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you.” Then God promises him that he will be made into a great nation. Abram and his wife, Sarai, accompanied by his nephew Lot, journey to the land of Canaan. But a famine forces him to depart for Egypt, where his beautiful Sarai is taken to Pharaoh’s palace[…]
Lech Lecha – w naszej paraszy Bóg przemawia do Abrama, nakazując mu: „Wyjdź z twojej ziemi, z miejsca urodzenia i z domu twojego ojca, do ziemi, którą ci ukażę”. Następnie Bóg obiecuje mu, że będzie ojcem narodów.. Abram i jego żona Saraj w towarzystwie swego siostrzeńca Lota udają się do ziemi Kanaan. Jednak głód, który zapanował w tej ziemi zmusza go do wyjazdu do Egiptu, gdzie jego piękna Saraj zostaje zabrana do pałacu faraona; Abram unika[…]
Posthumously, Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld (died 2018) released his final book in English translation this Spring 2023. The haunting, evocative writer of over forty books who acquired the Hebrew language late in life may have come full circle. This last book, Poland, A Green Land’s continuity with Appelfeld’s past writing, points to the confrontation of a second generation of Israeli Jews that grew up in an “Israeli” ethos of forgetting and being alienated from their European Jewish survivor generation (VIEW PDF).[…]
Estelle Glaser Laughlin is a child Holocaust survivor who was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1929. We are marking the Polish translation of her book Transcending Darkness: A Girl’s Journey Out of the Holocaust. This interview and other testimonies by Mrs. Laughlin will constitute a curriculum unit for Polish High school students.
In September 1939, Estelle’s family lived in Warsaw when Poland was attacked.. Along with her parents and sister, Freda, they were confined to the 1.3 square mile Ghetto area.[…]
