There were more than a thousand shtetls in today’s territories of Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus. The Second World War and the Holocaust obliterated the world of shtetls completely. Today, in Opatów—as well as in tens of other Polish towns—there are no more Jews left.
The OPOLIN Museum’s new temporary exhibition titled (post) JEWISH… demonstrates that Polish towns hide two parallel histories. The history of their Polish inhabitants is well known and remembered. The one of their Jewish neighbours who are no more is forgotten or left unsaid.
Guide in the exhibition will be the late Mayer Kirshenblatt, a painter who emigrated to Canada with his mother and brothers as a teenager, in 1934. Mayer recalls the shtetl of his youth, restoring vivid memories of the people, events, daily life and customs. His paintings—full of color, imagination and humor—show us a world that is no more. Looking at them, we learn about our shared Polish-Jewish history.
The exhibition also features a documentation of artistic interventions carried out in today’s Opatów, aimed at discovering and restoring the vestiges of the pre-war Jewish life.
The first “Shalom Chaverim” Jewish culture festival, in Bratislava and several other locations in the Bratislava Self-Government Region of Slovakia.
Events include concerts, a “Sholet Festival” and the official reopening of the restored synagogue in Senec.
Read more and see programs HERE
Read HERE specifically about the opening of the Senec synagogue
The 37th edition of the Jewish Culture Days festival in Berlin, organized by the Berlin Jewish community with a wide variety of partners.
The theme this year is Light. Concerts, workshops, films, guided tours, literary events, and more.
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