FOSTERING A VIBRANT RENEWAL OF JUDAISM IN POLAND
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. The opportunity for an international connection of people studying Judaism – many for the purpose of joining the Jewish people – allows for people to connect in a common purpose of sharing their Jewish learning experience. The title of the book comes from an Israeli song by the same name. The song, by Israeli composer and singer Naomi Shemer, refers to the fact that so many subjects have both a sweet and a bitter side. And yet she prays, “al kol eyle,” it all belongs together. Both the honey and the sting come from the same creature. Both the sweeter and the bitter parts of the Jewish experience come from the same Creator. The intention – which has been borne out by those who have read the English and the German versions – is that a person who reads and learns from this book in Polish will also acquire this more balanced perspective, not naively optimistic, not depressively pessimistic, but with a touch of both.
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Rabbi Walter Rothschild was born in Bradford, England in 1954 and grew up in a small provincial Reform synagogue with strong Western and Central European influences due to the refugees who had settled there. He studied Theology and Pedagogics at Cambridge University and later rabbinics at Leo Baeck College, London. He worked as a Rabbi in the North of England for eleven years, then in Austria and Central Europe, plus a year in Aruba in the Caribbean! (He speaks Dutch). Since 1998 he has lived in Berlin, serving first the main ‘Einheitsgemeinde’ then smaller liberal communities simultaneously in Halle, München, Köln, Freiburg and in Schleswig-Holstein, as well as ‘Or Chadasch’ in Vienna. For two years he was a Board member of the Union of Progressive Jews in Germany. He is a member of the CCAR and the European Rabbinic Association. He has worked extensively with the European Beit Din in several countries including Slovakia, Poland, Macedonia and Serbia. He is an author, poet, song-writer, historian, cabarettist, translator, and the editor and publisher of a quarterly magazine and father of three adult children. www.walterrothschild.de
Dr. Lena Magnone is a literary and cultural historian, author of, among others, two monographs, Maria Konopnicka. Lustra i symptomy [Maria Konopnicka. Mirrors and Symptoms, 2011] and Emisariusze Freuda. Transfer kulturowy psychoanalizy do polskich sfer inteligenckich przed drugą wojną światową [Freud’s Emissaries: The Cultural Transfer of Psychoanalysis to the Polish Intelligentsia Before World War II, 2016; an English translation is due to be published in 2022 with Sdvig Press]. From 2007 to 2019, she worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw. She spent the academic year 2019-2020 as a Fulbright fellow at New York University, conducting a research project ‘Polish Freudians and the traveling psychoanalysis: The Migration of a Central European modernist thought to the United States (and back to Poland)’. Currently, as a Humboldt fellow, Dr. Magnone is working at the University of Oldenburg in Germany on a new book project, ‘Transnational Female Modernism in Central Europe at the turn of the 19th and 20th century’.
Rabbi Alan Iser is an Adjunct Professor of Theology at St. Joseph’s University and at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia. He is a former synagogue rabbi and Hillel director. During summers he teaches at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He was ordained by the Jewish Theological seminary and holds a B. A. from Washington University in St. Louis and a M. A. from Harvard University.
Mirosław Patalon is a full professor in social sciences (University of Gdansk, 2011). He served as a director of the Institute of Education and Social Work (2013-2016) and as a dean of the Social Sciences Faculty (2016-2019) of the Pomeranian University in Slupsk, Poland. In the years 2014-2015 he was Research Associate at West Virginia University. In 2006/2007 he was granted the scholarship of Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem Institute). Patalon is exploring the Hebrew linguistics. In his research, Mirosław Patalon, focuses on the relation between religious paradigms and social work theory and practice as well as on religious institutions and practices as instruments of socialization and identity formation.
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