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Aug
22
Sat
Singer’s Warsaw Jewish Culture Festival @ Many venues including Jewish Theatre
Aug 22 @ 08:00 – Aug 30 @ 22:00
Singer's Warsaw Jewish Culture Festival @ Many venues including Jewish Theatre | Warszawa | Mazowieckie | Poland

The 17th annual Singer’s Warsaw festival — many on-site and online events are on the program, including concerts, lectures, guided tours, theatrical performances, and more.

On the program, click the title for more information and registration details.

Click here for the program

 

Aug
26
Wed
Guided walk @ New Jewish Cemertery, Krakow
Aug 26 @ 10:00 – 11:30
Guided walk @ New Jewish Cemertery, Krakow | Kraków | Małopolskie | Poland

Guided walk around the New Jewish cemetery, with a discussion of funeral traditions and gravestone symbolism, organized by the Jewish Museum branch of the City Museum.

Meeting point is the courtyard of the Old Synagogue,  Szeroka 24.

The group is limited to 16 people.

For information — scroll down on this page : https://www.muzeumkrakowa.pl/aktualnosci/lato-w-mk

 

 

Sep
5
Sat
Simcha Jewish culture festival @ Wroclaw, Poland
Sep 5 @ 22:00 – Sep 11 @ 20:00
Simcha Jewish culture festival @ Wroclaw, Poland | Wrocław | Dolnośląskie | Poland

The 22nd annual Simcha Jewish Culture Festival, held in and around the White Stork synagogue in Wroclaw, Poland. Concerts, lectures, tours, performances, and more.

Click here to see the program

 

Sep
8
Tue
Lubliner Jewish culture festival @ Lublin, Poland, various locations
Sep 8 @ 19:00 – Sep 13 @ 20:00
Lubliner Jewish culture festival @ Lublin, Poland, various locations | Lublin | Lublin Voivodeship | Poland

A range of concerts, performances, lectures, workshops and other events, at venues including the Yeshiva Chachmei Yeshiva and the Grodzka Gate Theatre NN complex. There are also online events.

Click here to see the program in English

 

Sep
18
Fri
Festival of Three Cultures @ Włodawa, Poland
Sep 18 all-day
Festival of Three Cultures @ Włodawa, Poland | Włodawa | Lubelskie | Poland

21st annual festival with a variety of events centering on Jewish, Catholic, and Orthodox Christian culture in southeastern Poland.

Events take place in and around the complex of historic synagogues, now a museum.

Sep
20
Sun
Festival of Three Cultures @ Włodawa, Poland
Sep 20 all-day
Festival of Three Cultures @ Włodawa, Poland | Włodawa | Lubelskie | Poland

21st annual festival with a variety of events centering on Jewish, Catholic, and Orthodox Christian culture in southeastern Poland.

Events take place in and around the complex of historic synagogues, now a museum.

Sep
21
Mon
Festival of Three Cultures @ Włodawa, Poland
Sep 21 all-day
Festival of Three Cultures @ Włodawa, Poland | Włodawa | Lubelskie | Poland

21st annual festival with a variety of events centering on Jewish, Catholic, and Orthodox Christian culture in southeastern Poland.

Events take place in and around the complex of historic synagogues, now a museum.

May
19
Wed
Jewish Bialystok virtual tour @ Online event
May 19 @ 19:00 – 20:00
Jewish Bialystok virtual tour @ Online event

Take a a virtual tour of Bialystok with Tomasz Wisniewski, an expert in Jewish history of Podlasie region, who will guide viewers through the city space and history of Bialystok, a home to Jewish community from the mid-17th century. Join in to listen to the history of Jewish community of Bialystok: its role in the rapid development of the town in the 19th century, social and cultural life in early 20th century, and the fate of Jews during Soviet and Nazi occupation.

The tour is part of the regular “Zoom in” program of the Forum for Dialogue NGO.

Wisniewski has been working for more than 30 years to preserve the memory of the Jewish communities of Poland’s eastern borderland. He created the web site jewishbialystok.pl as an online museum of Jewish history in the region and he received the POLIN museum award in 2018.

He has written several books, including a guidebook to Jewish Bialystok and surroundings, and on his YouTube channel  you can find more than 2,000 films presenting Jewish history of the region. He has documented Jewish cemeteries and runs the site bagnowka.pl, which collects data on almost 40,000  tombstones, mainly Jewish ones, and also presents other heritage information.

Click here to register

 

 

Jun
25
Fri
Krakow Jewish Culture Festival @ Online event also on-site
Jun 25 – Jul 4 all-day
Krakow Jewish Culture Festival @ Online event also on-site | Kraków | Małopolskie | Poland

The 30th Krakow Jewish Culture Festival will take place on-site and also on-line.

Live-streamed events can be accessed on the new website: 30.jewishfestival.pl

They include the events held in the JCF Tent, concerts organized in the Museum of Urban Engineering, Collegium Maius and the Tempel synagogue.

After the end of the live stream, they will be able to be accessed in the event archives.

Click here to see the Festival program

Aug
19
Sat
Singer’s Warsaw Festival @ Warsaw
Aug 19 – Sep 3 all-day
Singer's Warsaw Festival @ Warsaw | Warszawa | Mazowieckie | Poland

This is the 20th Edition of the Singer’s Warsaw Festival, Warsaw

The premier Jewish culture festival in Poland, aside from the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival. It celebrates its 20th edition jubilee this year.

Theatre performances, concerts, films, guided tours, lectures, food, books — and more.

Click here for the full program (including some preliminary events in Bilgoraj)

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