JUDAICA
FOUNDATION
CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE
in Kazimierz, Cracow
PROGRAM
REPORT 2 0 0 3
Between January 1st and December 31st, 2003, in the 10th year of the
Center’s activities, 231 program events (including lectures,
conferences, seminars, book presentations, film showings, exhibitions
and concerts) took place at the Center for Jewish Culture in Kazimierz,
Cracow. Additionally, there were:
- 140 visits of foreign groups,
- 24 visits of Polish groups
- 100 visits of noted persons.
On the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,
the Judaica Foundation awarded the Judaica Foundation Medal to Mrs.
Irena Sendlerowa, who rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw
ghetto.
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Center
for Jewish Culture, the Polish Post Office issued special stamp and
Cracow’s Gazeta Wyborcza daily published a special insert to the edition
of November 24th, 2003.
The Jews and Christians in Poland and Europe After the Shoah
Summer Program for students of the Theological University of Reformed
Churches in Kampen, Holland, took place in October 2003.
LECTURES
- From a Skeptic's Point of View - meeting with Dr. Ryszard
BUGAJ (POLAND'S INTEGRATION WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION)
- Auschwitz-Birkenau in the Works of Professor Antoni Kępiński
panel discussion with Prof. Maria ORWID, Prof. Jacek BOMBA and Dr.
Andrzej CECHNICKI (ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF KL AUSCHWITZ)
- Russia, Democracy and Tolerance - Drama in Chechnya - meeting
with Krystyna KURCZAB-REDLICH, journalist, author of the book Pandrioszka
about contemporary Russia (DEMOCRACY AND TOLERANCE)
- Everyday Life of Jewish Polish Children in 1939-1945 lecture
by Joanna MICHLIC, Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem
- Theodor Herzl and Women - lecture by Dr. Erik PETRY, Basel
University
- Poland in the European Union - Chances and Challenges - meeting
with Minister Jerzy TRUSZCZYŃSKI, Poland's Chief Negotiator with the
European Union (POLAND'S INTEGRATION WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION)
- Two Nations - Two Proverbs - meeting with Michał SOBELMAN,
moderated by Prof. Jan WOLEŃSKI. (POLES AND JEWS - ONCE AGAIN?)
- A Europe of Values? - meeting with Bishop Tadeusz PIERONEK,
Rector of the Pontifical Theological Academy in Cracow (POLAND'S
INTEGRATION WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION)
- Jewish Self-Government in the Old Republic of Poland lecture
by Prof. Stanisław GRODZISKI, Jagiellonian University (JEWS IN
POLAND)
- Poles' Views on Yedvabne - Observations, Judgments, Speculations
meeting with Prof. Antoni SUŁEK, Sociology Institute of the Warsaw
University, moderated by Prof. Jan WOLEŃSKI. (POLES AND JEWS -
ONCE AGAIN?)
- Israel After the Elections - meeting with Arie GOLAN, Israeli
journalist, organized jointly with the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw
- Jewish Theater in Bielsko and Biała in the Interwar Period
- lecture by Prof. Andrzej LINERT, Jagiellonian University (INTERNATIONAL
THEATER DAY)
- Ringelblum and His Archive - lecture by Dr. Eleonora BERGMAN,
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw (60th ANNIVERSARY OF THE
WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING)
- Irena Sendlerowa and Her Children - meeting with Elżbieta
FICOWSKA, Chairperson of the Children of the Holocaust Society (60th
ANNIVERSARY OF THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING)
- 60th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Questions and
an Attempt to Answer Them - lecture by Prof. Feliks TYCH, Director
of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw (60th ANNIVERSARY
OF THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING)
- About Yedvabne - Once Again - meeting with Dr. Andrzej ŻBIKOWSKI,
moderated by Prof. Jan WOLEŃSKI. (POLES AND JEWS - ONCE AGAIN?)
- My Dissent About Yedvabne on March 21st, 2001 meeting with
Prof. Stanisław DĄBROWSKI, moderated by Prof. Jan WOLEŃSKI. (POLES
AND JEWS - ONCE AGAIN?)
- Escape from the Treblinka Camp - meeting with Samuel WILLENBERG
(Israel)
- Poles' Views on Integration with the European Union - meeting
with Dr. Tomasz ŻUKOWSKI, Social Policy Institute, Warsaw University
(POLAND'S INTEGRATION WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION)
- Meeting with Minister Danuta HÜBNER, Secretary of the Committee
for European Integration, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs (POLAND'S INTEGRATION WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION)
- The Universe and Elementary Particles - lecture by Prof.
Krzysztof ŚLIWA, Tufts University, Boston
- Zionism - lecture by Dr. Erik PETRY in the International
Youth Meeting Centre in Oświęcim
- First Zionist Congress in Basel, 1897 - lecture by Dr. Erik
PETRY during the Simcha Jewish Culture Festival in Wrocław
- Poles and Jews - Once Again? Post scriptum. meeting with
Prof. Jan WOLEŃSKI (POLES AND JEWS - ONCE AGAIN?)
- Patriotism and Nationalism - meeting with Jan NOWAK-JEZIORAŃSKI
(BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Theology and the Holocaust - lecture by Prof. Stanisław OBIREK
SJ, opening a new series of meetings at the Center for Jewish Culture
(BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- The Holocaust Experience in the Collective Memory of Roma and
Sinti lecture by Dr. Sławomir KAPRALSKI, Centre for Social Studies
in Warsaw (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Poland and Me - meeting with Abraham BRUMBERG (USA). (BAYIT
HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Borderland Trails - meeting with Krzysztof CZYŻEWSKI, President
of the Borderland Foundation in Sejny (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS
WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Meeting with Andrzej WAJDA (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH
CULTURE)
- Theology and the Holocaust - meeting with Prof. Jehuda WEBSTER,
Los Angeles moderated by Prof. Stanisław OBIREK SJ (BAYIT HADASH
ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Ritual Murder. A Legend in European History lecture by Prof.
Józef NIEWIADOMSKI, Innsbruck University (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS
WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- My Seven Years in Cracow. Attempt at a Reckoning meeting
with Rabbi Sacha PECARIC, Ronald S. Lauder Foundation in Cracow. (BAYIT
HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- The Jews in Great Poland - meeting with Zbigniew PAKUŁA,
journalist, author of the book Grey Stones. The Jews of Great Poland
(BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Citizenship, Nationality, Independence lecture by Prof. Ludwik
STOMMA, Sorbonne University, Paris (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH
JEWISH CULTURE)
- Where Was God in Bełżec? - meeting with Prof. Stanisław OBIREK
SJ (THEOLOGY AND THE HOLOCAUST)
- How To Teach Tolerance? Religious, Ethnic and Cultural Minoroties
in High School Polish Language Textbooks. - meeting with Dr. Tomasz
ŻUKOWSKI, member of the Open Republic Research Group, member of the
Literary Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- The Dignity of Difference - meeting with Rev. Jacques DUPUIS
SJ, moderated by Dr. Beata KOWALSKA and Prof. Stanisław OBIREK SJ
- My Mission in Chile - meeting with Daniel PASSENT, former
Polish Ambassador to Chile (DEMOCRACY AND TOLERANCE)
- Multicultural and Multinational Galicia - lecture by Prof.
Michael STEINLAUF (13th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- Jewish Wars - lecture by Prof. Michael STEINLAUF (USA) (13th
JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- The Multilingual Jewish Nation - lecture by Prof. Michael
STEINLAUF (13th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- Jewish Kosher Lifestyle - lecture by Benzion MILLER (USA)
(13th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
BOOK PRESENTATIONS, MEETINGS WITH AUTHORS
- Two Flags. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Marian APFELBAUM,
and meeting with the author, organized jointly with Wydawnictwo Literackie
Publishing House
- Meeting with Henryk GRYNBERG, organized jointly with the Czarne
Publishing House
- Why Should We Teach About the Holocaust edited by Dr. Jolanta
AMBROSEWICZ-JACOBS and Dr. Leszek HOŃDO
- History of the Jews in Lemberg/Lviv. Maurycy Allerhand's Notes
from the Other World by Dr. Leszek ALLERHAND (Zakopane) and meeting
with the author
- Probing the Mysteries of the Church by Rev. Dr. Romuald Jakub
WEKSLER-WASZKINEL, meeting with the author moderated by Prof. Stanisław
OBIREK SJ
- The Pharmacy in the Cracow Ghetto by Tadeusz PANKIEWICZ.
(60th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CRACOW GHETTO LIQUIDATION)
- Women's Underground - by Shana PENN (San Francisco) - presentation
of a book about women in the Solidarity movement and meeting with
the author
- I Encountered Human Beings. Story of a Tragic Beginning and an
Extraordinary Ending by Ruta WERMUTH and meeting with the author
- Heaven's Blood by Piotr RAWICZ and meeting with Prof. Jan
GOŚLICKI, author of the foreword to the Polish edition and Andrzej
SOCHA, translator of the book
- New York... My Boat and My Haven - meeting with Anna FRAJLICH,
poet
- Dear Franz. Franz Kafka by Anna BOLECKA and meeting with
the author (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer - A Writer Still Little Known by Prof.
Chone Shmeruk and meeting with Prof. Monika ADAMCZYK-GARBOWSKA, Maria
Curie- Skłodowska University in Lublin, editor of the book (BAYIT
HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- In Pursuit of the Void. Journeys to Poland in Contemporary Israeli
Literature by Dr. Shoshana RONEN (Israel), as part of the Judaica
Foundation's bilingual series of publications The Aleksander and
Alicja Hertz Annual Memorial Lecture, meeting with the author
and Prof. Shevah WEISS, Israeli Ambassador to Poland (BAYIT HADASH
ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Jewish Life by Henryk HALKOWSKI and meeting with the author
moderated by Prof. Stanisław OBIREK SJ
- My Friend the King. The Story of King Stanisław August by
Józef HEN and meeting with the author
- The House on Groble Street. About Janina Garycka, Piotr Skrzynecki
and the Rams' Cellar Cabaret by Zbigniew ŁAGOCKI, Maria PYRLIK
and Leszek WÓJTOWICZ
- Early Jewish Art in Poland by Dr. Izabella REJDUCH-SAMKOWA
and Prof. Jan SAMEK
- For Spite by Irek GRIN (13th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- The Time of an Ambassador by Prof. Shevah WEISS, Israeli
Ambassador to Poland, and meeting with the author (13th JEWISH
CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- Dictionary of Judaism - book presentation (13th JEWISH
CULTURE FESTIVAL)
CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, DISCUSSIONS AND WORKSHOPS
- About Yedvabne - panel discussion with Prof. Tomasz SZAROTA
and Prof. Ireneusz KRZEMIŃSKI about the publication of the National
Memorial Institute, moderated by Prof. Jan WOLEŃSKI (POLES AND
JEWS - ONCE AGAIN?)
- Zionism and the State of Israel - seminar by Dr. Erik Petry,
Basel University, for teachers from Tarnów, organized jointly with
the Regional Museum in Tarnów
- tolerancja.pl - conference for teachers from Małopolska Province,
organized jointly with the Małopolska Centre for Teachers' Continuing
Education and the ZNAK Catholic Foundation
- Seminar for volunteers organized by Verein für Dienste im Ausland
- Seminar for members of the Cracow Jewish Community organized by
the Jewish Educational Center in Warsaw
- Contact seminar for teachers from Poland, Germany and Denmark organized
by the Małopolska Centre for Teachers' Continuing Education
- The War on Iraq - panel discussion with Prof. Janusz DANECKI,
Oriental Institute of the Warsaw University and Prof. Wojciech GIEŁŻYŃSKI,
Rector of the College of Communication and Public Media in Warsaw
(DEMOCRACY AND TOLERANCE)
- Panel discussion with Prof. Stanisław OBIREK SJ, Bronisław WILDSTEIN,
journalist of Rzeczpospolita daily, moderated by Prof. Jan WOLEŃSKI
(POLES AND JEWS - ONCE AGAIN?)
- FORUM-KAZIMIERZ I - panel discussion inaugurating a new series
of meetings dedicated to the history and future of Kazimierz, with
Seweryn BLUMSZTAJN, Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza daily in Cracow;
Henryk HALKOWSKI, writer, member of the Jewish Community; Prof. Andrzej
KURZ, Kuźnica Society; Janusz MAKUCH, Director of the Jewish Culture
Festival in Cracow; Bartosz SZYDŁOWSKI, theater director, Łaźnia Society;
and Małgorzata WALCZAK, member of the Friends of Kazimierz Society;
moderated by Joachim S. RUSSEK
- FORUM-KAZIMIERZ II - panel discussion with Rev. Wiesław DAWIDOWSKI,
priest of a parish church in Kazimierz; Jadwiga and Wacław JANKOWSKI,
actors and theatre directors, owners of the Scena El-Jot Theatre in
Kazimierz; and Wojciech KOZDRONKIEWICZ, Chairman of the Kazimierz
Council; moderated by Joachim S. RUSSEK
- Hasidic song workshops with Benzion MILLER (USA) (13th JEWISH
CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- Hasidic song workshops with Benzion MILLER (USA) (13th JEWISH
CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- Hasidic song workshops with Benzion MILLER (USA) (13th JEWISH
CULTURE FESTIVAL)
FILM SHOWINGS
- Jesus Christ Superstar by Norman Jewison (THE NATIONAL
CHARITY CAMPAIGN ORCHESTRA)
- Fiddler on the Roof by Norman Jewison (THE NATIONAL CHARITY
CAMPAIGN ORCHESTRA)
- Hair by Milos Forman (THE NATIONAL CHARITY CAMPAIGN ORCHESTRA)
- Moulin Rouge by Baz Luhrmann (THE NATIONAL CHARITY CAMPAIGN
ORCHESTRA)
- Image Before My Eyes by Josh Waletzky (EUROPEAN DAY OF
JEWISH CULTURE)
- Shtetl Passover by David Roskies (EUROPEAN DAY OF JEWISH
CULTURE)
- The Unexpected Guest by William Brand (EUROPEAN DAY OF
JEWISH CULTURE)
- Understanding the Memory by Małgorzata Imielska (EUROPEAN
DAY OF JEWISH CULTURE)
- Remembrance of Years Past by Jan Sosiński (EUROPEAN DAY
OF JEWISH CULTURE)
- PO-LAN-YAH. Here Dwelled God by Amnon Teitelbaum
- PO-LAN-YAH. Here Dwelled God by Amnon Teitelbaum
- PO-LAN-YAH. Here Dwelled God by Amnon Teitelbaum
- PO-LAN-YAH. Here Dwelled God by Amnon Teitelbaum
- PO-LAN-YAH. Here Dwelled God by Amnon Teitelbaum
- PO-LAN-YAH. Here Dwelled God by Amnon Teitelbaum
- PO-LAN-YAH. Here Dwelled God by Amnon Teitelbaum
- PO-LAN-YAH. Here Dwelled God by Amnon Teitelbaum
- Piotr Skrzynecki's Ram's Cellar Cabaret by Antoni Krauze
- Piotr Skrzynecki's Ram's Cellar Cabaret by Antoni Krauze
- Piotr Skrzynecki's Ram's Cellar Cabaret by Antoni Krauze
- Piotr Skrzynecki's Ram's Cellar Cabaret by Antoni Krauze
- The Last Stage by Wanda Jakubowska (ANNIVERSARY OF THE
LIBERATION OF KL AUSCHWITZ)
- The Sand Glass by Wojciech Has, based on the story by Bruno
Schulz, introduction by Prof. Jerzy JARZĘBSKI, Jagiellonian University
- The Price of Truth by Marcin Mamoń and Mariusz Pilis
- Difficult Reconciliation by Andrzej Falber
- The Icicles Weep on Wawelberg Street by Maria Dłużewska
- Quartet by Tomasz Zygadło (ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARCH '68
EVENTS IN POLAND)
- Warsaw Ghetto by Burnett Hugh (60th ANNIVERSARY OF THE
WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING)
- Der Alltag im Warschauer Ghetto by Piotr Szalsza (60th
ANNIVERSARY OF THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING)
- Teaspoon by Michał Nekanda-Trepka (60th ANNIVERSARY OF
THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING)
- Sendlerowa's List by Michał J. Dudziewicz (60th ANNIVERSARY
OF THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING)
- Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising According to Marek Edelman,
by Jolanta Dylewska (60th ANNIVERSARY OF THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING)
- Holy Week by Andrzej Wajda (60th ANNIVERSARY OF THE WARSAW
GHETTO UPRISING)
- At the Railway Track by Michał Nekanda-Trepka
- Glamour by Frigyes Gödrös (JEWISH MOTIFS IN HUNGARIAN
FILMS - BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Sunshine by István Szabó (JEWISH MOTIFS IN HUNGARIAN FILMS
- BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Finding Pictures by Benjamin Geissler (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS
WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Shnirele perele (...like pearls on a string) by Anna Kaplińska
and meeting with Prof. Jerzy POMIANOWSKI (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS
WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Ritual Murder by Andrzej Białko (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS
WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Raft of Musicians, Between New York and Sejny and Stories
Listened To by Krzysztof Czyżewski (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS
WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Ararat by Atom Egoyan, introduction by Prof. Tadeusz LUBELSKI
(BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Samson by Andrzej Wajda (JEWISH MOTIFS IN ANDRZEJ WAJDA'S
FILMS - BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Korczak by Andrzej Wajda (JEWISH MOTIFS IN ANDRZEJ WAJDA'S
FILMS - BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Holy Week by Andrzej Wajda (JEWISH MOTIFS IN ANDRZEJ WAJDA'S
FILMS - BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Verdict Upon Franciszek Kłos by Andrzej Wajda, introduction
by Prof. Tadeusz LUBELSKI. (JEWISH MOTIFS IN ANDRZEJ WAJDA'S FILMS
- BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Life Is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS
WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Train of Life by Radu Mihaileanu (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS
WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Sobibór, October 14th, at 4.00 p.m. by Claude Lanzmann (BAYIT
HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Comedian Harmonists by Joseph Vilsmaier
- PO-LAN-YAH by Amnon Teitelbaum (13th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- PO-LAN-YAH by Amnon Teitelbaum (13th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- PO-LAN-YAH by Amnon Teitelbaum (13th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- PO-LAN-YAH by Amnon Teitelbaum (13th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- PO-LAN-YAH by Amnon Teitelbaum (13th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- PO-LAN-YAH by Amnon Teitelbaum (13th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- PO-LAN-YAH by Amnon Teitelbaum (13th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- Five Polish Cities (13th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- The Work by Bernard Offen (13th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- My Hometown Concentration Camp by Bernard Offen (13th
JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- Process B7815 by Bernard Offen. (13th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- The Unexpected Guest by William Brand (13th JEWISH CULTURE
FESTIVAL)
- German propaganda films - series of film showings organized
jointly with the Film Institute of the Jagiellonian University
EXHIBITIONS
- First Zionist Congress in Basel, 1897 exhibition in the International
Youth Meeting Centre in Oświęcim
- First Zionist Congress in Basel, 1897 exhibition in the Regional
Museum in Tarnów
- First Zionist Congress in Basel, 1897 exhibition during the
Simcha Jewish Culture Festival in Wrocław
- First Zionist Congress in Basel, 1897 exhibition in the library
of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin
- Photographic collages by Charles DUMOLIN (Belgium) (ANNIVERSARY
OF THE LIBERATION OF KL AUSCHWITZ)
- Photographic collages by Charles DUMOLIN (Belgium) in the International
Youth Meeting Centre in Oświęcim
- Paintings and sculptures by Ani MURADJAN (Armenia/Cracow)
- The End and the Beginning - documentary exhibition organized
jointly with the International Youth Meeting Centre in Oświęcim and
the Anti-War Museum Library of Peace of the Evangelical Church in
Berlin
- Children of Kazimierz - photographic exhibition by Jakub
STOŻEK (Cracow)
- Childhood - Between Distance and Encounter - photographic
exhibition by Krzysztof SZWAJCA and Aleksandra SZPAK (Cracow)
- Holocaust - Why Not? - photographic exhibition made by a
high-school student, presenting anti-Semitic graffiti, organized jointly
with the Jewish Community in Wrocław
- The Power of Persuasion. Jewish Posters from Prewar Poland
- exhibition from the collection of the YIVO Institute in New York,
organized jointly with the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw
- Photographic exhibition by Dominik PABIS (Cracow)
- Journeys - Totemenhirs - painting exhibition by Roman NOWOTARSKI
and Tadeusz NOWOTARSKI (Zabrze, Poland)
- Das jüdische Wien/Jewish Vienna - photographic exhibition
by Janos KALMAR, organized jointly with the Austrian Consulate General
in Cracow
- Lithography - exhibition by Marta WAKUŁA (Cracow)
- Life Recalled - graphic art exhibition by Hetty KRIST (Germany)
(BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Ethiopia - The Legacy of King Salomon - photographic exhibtion
by Anna OLEJ and Krzysztof KOBUS (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH
JEWISH CULTURE)
- 10th Anniversary of the Center for Jewish Culture's opening
photographic and poster exhibition (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH
JEWISH CULTURE)
- Rafael F. Scharf - in memoriam - documentary exhibition dedicated
to Rafael F. Scharf, late founding member of the Judaica Foundation
Board
- The Rams' Cellar - photographic exhibition by Zbigniew ŁAGOCKI
(Cracow)
- Presence/Absence, or, Into the Void - installation by Sebastian
MEISSNER (Germany), organized jointly with the Goethe Institute in
Cracow (13th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
CONCERTS, THEATER PERFORMANCES
- Chamber music concert performed by the CONCERTO LAMELLI youth orchestra
(Cracow), conducted by Wiesław GRZEGORSKI
- Mordechaj Gebirtig's Songs - concert by Bente KAHAN (60th
ANNIVERSARY OF THE CRACOW GHETTO LIQUIDATION)
- Concert performed by Cracow Music High School students
- Polish - Jewish Acrostic - concert at the Franciscan Church
in Cracow (60th ANNIVERSARY OF THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING)
- Piano recital by Piotr RÓŻAŃSKI (Cracow)
- Heinrich Heine's Songs performed by Klaudia ROMEK (soprano),
Jacek OZIMKOWSKI (bass/baritone), Marek WIATR (tenor) and Prof. Barbara
PENDERECKA (piano). H. Heine's poems read by Anna SOKOŁOWSKA
- Chamber music concert performed by the REINER TRIO (Cracow)
- Piano recital by the Duo BRUSCO - SCOLASTRA (Italy), organized jointly
with the Italian Culture Institute in Cracow
- Piano recital performed by Piotr RÓŻAŃSKI (Cracow)
- L'ultima lacrima (The Last Teardrop) - theater performance
by the Teatro Universita (Cracow), directed by Gianfranco EVANGELISTA,
based on the novel by Stefano Benni, organized jointly with the Italian
Culture Institute in Cracow (INTERNATIONAL THEATER DAY)
- Mozart Blues - chamber music concert performed by Anatoli
KOGAN (Israel) and Konstanty WILEŃSKI (Poland)
- Meeting Shiva - theater performance by WERTUMNUS Theater
as a part of the project Human Body - Universal Sign
- Chamber music concert performed by the CONCERTO youth orchestra
LAMELLI conducted by Wiesław GRZEGORSKI
- Paris to Kiev - concert of Ukrainian music performed by Alexis
KOCHAN (Canada) and the PARIS TO KIEV ensemble
- Chamber music concert performed by the QUARTETTO D`ARCHI DI VENEZIA
(Italy) organized jointly with the Italian Culture Institute in Cracow
- Concert of ethnic music performed by the ESFAHAN group (Germany/Syria/Poland)
- Chamber music concert performed by Bozidarka NOCOLIC BALDOCCI (violin)
and Carole CARNIEL (piano), organized jointly with the Italian Culture
Institute in Cracow
- Chamber music concert performed by Jurij ŁANIUK (cello, Lviv) and
Jozsef ÖRMÉNY (piano, Lviv) (CRACOW COMPOSER'S DAYS)
- Recital by Urszula KRYGER (mezzo soprano) and Katarzyna JANKOWSKIA
(piano) (CRACOW COMPOSER'S DAYS)
- In the Beginning Was the Song - concert of Jewish and Ukrainian
songs performed by Marjana SADOWSKA (Ukraine) and Victoria HANNA (Israel)
- Chamber music concert performed by the POSAUNE VOCE TRIO (Great
Britain) (CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL)
- Concert of Jewish music performed by the ANAHANU ensemble (Lviv)
during the Musical Autumn Festival in Przemyśl.
- JEWISH NEW YEAR'S CONCERT - ROSH HASHANA 5764 Judeo baroque.
Salomone Rossi - concert performed by the ARS CANTUS ensemble
(BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Concert of Jewish music performed by the DI GALITZYANER KLEZMORIM
ensemble (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Baroque to Broadway - concert performed by the POSAUNE VOCE TRIO
(Great Britain) (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Concert performed by the KROKE trio (Cracow) (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS
WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Concert of Armenian songs performed by the Kalisz Cathedral Girls'
Choir (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Concert of music by Armenian composers performed by the EGINE String
Quartet (Kalisz) (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Piano recital performed by Beata BILIŃSKA (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS
WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Polish Phantasmagoria - theater performance by the El-Jot
Theatre, based on Julian Tuwim poems, directed by Jadwiga LEŚNIAK-JANKOWSKA
(BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- ANNIVERSARY CONCERT ON THE 10th ANNIVERSARY OF THE OPENING OF
THE CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE Leopold Kozłowski and Friends -
concert of Jewish music performed by Leopold KOZŁOWSKI, Marta BIZOŃ,
Renata ŚWIERCZYŃSKA, Katarzyna ZIELIŃSKA, Andrzej RÓG and Halina JARCZYK
(violin), hosted by Jerzy FEDOROWICZ (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH
JEWISH CULTURE)
- Concert of songs by W. Wysocki, B. Okudżawa, M. Cwietajewa, Ch.
Aznavour and J. Brel, performed by Aneta ŁASTIK (Paris) (BAYIT
HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI'S BIRTHDAY CONCERT performed by the
student quartet of the Cracow Music Academy, Kaja DANCZOWSKA (violin)
and Sławomir CIERPIK (piano)
- Jazz concert performed by Assif TSAHAR, Matt MANERI, Jim BLACK,
organized jointly with the INDIGO Club in Cracow
- Jazz concert performed by the PARADOX TRIO (USA), organized jointly
with the INDIGO Club in Cracow
- Guitar recital by Leszek WÓJTOWICZ (Cracow)
- NEW YEAR'S EVE CONCERT 2003 / 2004 performed by a Polish
early music ensemble from Cracow
- Piano recital performed by Natalia KARP and Hisayo SHIMIZU at the
Embassy of the Republic of Poland in London, commemorating Rafael
F. Scharf, late member of the Judaica Foundation Board
- Gimpel - theater performance by the MIST Theatre, based on
the novel by I. B. Singer (13th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- Until Death - theater performance by the MIST Theatre based
on the novel by Amos Oz (13th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
CEREMONIES
- Conferring of Yad Vashem Righteous Among the Nations medals, organized
by the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw
- Ceremony on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Cracow Ghetto
Liquidation, organized by the Society for Preservation of the Majdanek
Camp
- Rafael F. Scharf - in memoriam - commemorative ceremony dedicated
to Rafael F. Scharf, late member of the Judaica Foundation Board,
with Maria RYDLOWA, Prof. Erich DAUZENROTH (Germany), Prof. Zbigniew
PEŁCZYŃSKI (London) and Prof. Sławomir KAPRALSKI (Warsaw) and concert
performed by Adam MUSIALSKI (violin) and Beata MUSIALSKA (piano)
- Conferring of the Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska Award to Dr. Leszek
HOŃDO of the Department of Judaic Studies of the Jagiellonian University,
organized jointly with the YIVO Institute, New York
- MARCH OF REMEMBRANCE on the occasion of the 60th anniversary
of the Cracow ghetto liquidation, organized jointly with the Jewish
Community in Cracow, Jewish Culture Festival Society, Polish-Israeli
Friendship Society and the Sign of the Eagle Pharmacy Museum under
the honorary patronage of Jerzy Adamik, Governor of Małopolska Province,
Janusza Sepioł, Marshal of Małopolski Province, Jacek Majchrowski,
Mayor of Cracow, and Tadeusz Jakubowicz, President of the Jewish Community
in Cracow
OTHER EVENTS
- Meeting of Polish members of the Shimon Peres Peace Center
- Meeting of representatives of the Sephardic community of France
and the U.S.A. on the occasion of the unveiling of the memorial plaque
at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, commemorating Sephardic Jews murdered
in Birkenau
- Meeting of German Scouts with Tadeusz Sobolewicz, KL Auschwitz-Birkenau
survivor
- Contemporary Kazimierz - Historical Kazimierz - presentation
of a project by secondary school students from Cracow
- Meeting of the Culture and Education Commission of the Cracow City
Council
- Post card auction organized by the RARA AVIS Antiquarian Bookstore
- Post card auction organized by the RARA AVIS Antiquarian Bookstore
- Book auction organized by the RARA AVIS Antiquarian Bookstore
- Book auction organized by the RARA AVIS Antiquarian Bookstore
- Meetings of members of the Righteous Among the Nations Society (monthly)
- Meeting of members of the Polish-Israeli Friendship Society
- Meeting of members of the Polish-Israeli Friendship Society
- Meeting of members of the Polish-Israeli Friendship Society
- Meeting of members of the Polish-Israeli Friendship Society
- Dialogue for the Future - presentations of radio programs
on Polish-Jewish issues (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Medicine and Pharmacy Behind the Ghetto Walls - meeting of
members of the Cracow branch of the Polish Physicians Society
- Meeting of German students with Stella MÜLLER-MADEJ, Cracow ghetto
survivor
- Meeting with Stella MÜLLER-MADEJ in the Sign of the Eagle Pharmacy
Museum before the March of Remembrance on the occasion of the 60th
anniversary of the Cracow ghetto liquidation, moderated by Annamaria
ORLA-BUKOWSKA
VISITS
- Aleksander Miedownikow, Ukrainian Consul General in Cracow
- Natalia Sawina, Ukrainian Consul in Cracow
- Michel Reineri, French Consul General in Cracow
- Jean Marc Dreyfus, International Task Force, Paris
- Patrick Amiot, International Task Force, Paris
- Karel Fracapane, International Task Force, Paris
- Józef Winiarski, Deputy Mayor of the City of Cracow for Culture
and Education
- Leonid Rodionow, Russian Consul General in Cracow
- Jan Bereza, Member of the Małopolska Province Board
- Jerzy Kulczycki, President, Deutsche Bank 24 in Cracow
- Bruno Neve de Mevergnies, Belgian Ambassador to Poland
- Marek Siwiec, Chief of the National Security Office
- Karol Drozd, member of the Shimon Peres Peace Center Society
- Prof. Andrzej Rottermund, member of the Shimon Peres Peace Center
Society
- Krzysztof Miklaszewski, member of the Shimon Peres Peace Center
Society
- Kazimierz Czechowicz, member of the Shimon Peres Peace Center Society
- Jan Król, member of the Shimon Peres Peace Center Society
- Janusz Morgensztern, member of the Shimon Peres Peace Center Society
- Prof. Grzegorz Matuszak, member of the Shimon Peres Peace Center
Society
- Szymon Szurmiej, member of the Shimon Peres Peace Center Society
- Prof. Wojciech Froncisz, member of the Shimon Peres Peace Center
Society
- Adam Krzanowski, member of the Shimon Peres Peace Center Society
- Jerzy Halbersztadt, Director, Museum of History of Polish Jews
- Joanna Hofman, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Ryszard Woźniak, Ministry of Interiors
- Dr Jolanta Żyndul, Warsaw University, Mordechaj Anielewicz Centre
- Dr Jacek Krupa, Chair of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University
- Prof. Marian Dąbrowa, History Institute of the Jagiellonian University
- Prof. Szewach Weiss, Israeli Ambassador to Poland
- Prof. Dr. Zbigniew Zuziak, Deputy Mayor of the City of Cracow
- Elżbieta Ficowska, Chairperson of the Children of the Holocaust
Society
- Dr Gabriele Goldfuss, Head of the International Affairs Office of
the City Council of Leipzig, Germany
- Siegfried Haller, City Council of the City of Leipzig, Germany
- Dr Michel Azaria, Judeo-Spanish at Auschwitz Society
- Kenneth Fairfax, US Consul General in Cracow
- Prof. Andrzej Głowacki, Director of the Culture Department of the
Cracow City Council
- Siria Lopez, US Consul General in Cracow
- Dr Maren Klingler, German Consul General in Cracow
- Dr Stefan Wackwitz, Director of the Goethe Institute in Cracow
- Dr Ernst-Peter Brezovszky, Austrian Consul General in Cracow
- Andrzej Czapliński, Director of Cracow Television
- Ewa Bielecka, Deputy Mayor of the City of Cracow
- John Kraaer, Director of the Teachers' Education Center in Odense,
Sweden
- Maria Sołtys, Director of the Małopolska Teachers' Education Center
in Cracow
- Dr Reinhard Schweppe, German Ambassador to Poland
- Rabbi Michael Dushinsky, Praga
- Dr. Susanna Buttaroni, Vienna
- Helmut Morlock, architect from Germany, member of the International
Youth Meeting Centre in Oświęcim Foundation Board
- Janusz Fogler, President of the Art and Film Publishing House
- Dr. Ashot Hovakimian, Armenian Ambassador to Poland
- Adam Terlecki, President of the Armenian Cultural Society in Cracow
- Hafez Al Nimer, Palestinian Ambassador to Poland
- Omar Faris, President of the Palestinian Society in Poland
- Dietmar Mietan, MP of the German Bundestag (SPD), member of the
International Youth Meeting Centre Foundation
- Dr Angelica Schwall-Düren, MP of the German Bundestag (SPD), President
of the Bundestag's Commission for European Integration
- Kai Lingen, SPD Commission for European Integration
- Giovanni Sciola, Director of the Italian Culture Institute in Cracow
- Attila Szalai, Director of the Hungarian Culture Institute in Warsaw
- Istvan Kovacs, Hungarian Consul General in Cracow
- Prof. Barry Kachan, Cardiac surgeon from Houston, TX
- Tad Taube, Prezydent Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture
- Stephen Dobbs, Dyrektor Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture
- Abraham Sofaer, Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture
- Elżbieta Lęcznarowicz, Superintendent of Małopolska Province Schools
- Eva Hoffman, London
- Tadeusz Syryjczyk, President of the Cracow Industrial Society
- Prof. Jacek Majchrowski, Mayor of the City of Cracow
- Rafał Skąpski, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
- Patrick Gautrat, French Ambassador to Poland
- Corinne Evens, Evens Foundation, Paris
- Theodor Bikel, actor and cantor, U.S.A.
- Wolfgang Bittner, German writer
- Alex Danzig, Israel
- Sonja Divé-Dahl, Director of the Radisson SAS Hotel in Cracow
- Tomasz Szyszka, Chief of the Front Desk of the Radisson SAS Hotel
in Cracow
- Dr Dov S. Zakheim, US Undersecretary of Defense
- Minister Marek Siwiec, Chief of the National Security Office, Poland
- Minister Janusz Zemke, Ministry of Defense, Poland
- Andrzej Murawski, Deputy Chief of the National Security Office,
Poland
- Christopher Hill, US Ambassador to Poland
- Dr Marcos Resnizky, Wallenberg Foundation, Buenos Aires
- Christine Lieberknecht, President of the Thuringia Parliament
- Anke Fuchs, Director of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Germany
- Peter Hengstenberg, Director of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in
Warsaw
- Riccardo di Sengi, Chief Rabbi of Rome
- Walter Veroni, Mayor of the City of Rome
- Shlomo di Venezia, Holocaust survivor from Rome
- Maestro Krzysztof Penderecki
- Elżbieta Penderecka
- Prof. Marek Stachowski, Rector of the Academy of Music in Cracow
- Andrzej Wajda
- Krystyna Zachwatowicz
- Anait Asatrian, 2nd Secretary of the Armenian Embassy in Poland
- Jan Mokrzycki, President of the Polish Society in Great Britain
- Prof. Samuel Sandler and Bella Sandler, Washington, D.C.
- Janka Burianova, Slovak Consul General in Cracow
- William Bellis, US Consul in Cracow for Public Relations
- Hans Kaiser, Minister for European Affairs of Thuringia, Germany
- Jakub Müller, Malmö, Sweden, born in Nowy Sącz
- Joanna Karasek, Polish Representation in Brussels
FOREIGN GROUPS OF VISITORS
- Group from Internationale Bildungs und Begegnungswerk, Stuttgart,
Germany
- Group of Sephardic Jews from the USA
- Group of Sephardic Jews from France
- Group of scholars of the German Marshall Fund from the USA
- American students of sociology at the Jagiellonian University in
Cracow
- Group of teachers from Rhineland-Westphalia, participants in the
seminar Auschwitz-Birkenau as a Memorial
- Group of youth from Demokratisches Jugendforum, Brandenburg, Germany
- Group of visitors from Great Britain, with Ben Helfgot
- Group from Strasbourg
- Students from the U.S.A., with Prof. John Arnold
- Group of students from Saxony, Germany
- Group of secondary school student from Heidelberg, Germany
- Group of students from the Jacobsen-Gymnasium in Seesen, Germany
- Group of students from the Evangelical High School of the Hoffbauer
Foundation in Potsdam, Germany
- Group of students from the Volkshochschule in Giessen, Germany
- Group of students from Holland
- Group of students from Duisburg, Germany
- Group of American students studying in Israel
- Group of visitors from Sweden
- Group of students from Berlin
- Group from Israel
- Group from Potsdam, Germany
- Group from Southern Bavaria, Germany
- Group of tourists from Germany
- Group of visitors from Limburg, Germany
- Group of volunteers from Leipzig, Germany
- Group of visitors from Westphalia, Germany
- Group of students from Berlin
- Group of students from Denmark
- Members of the Frauen und Kultur Society from Dortmund, Germany
- Members of the UNA Forum from Ruhr, Germany
- Group of retired persons from Hamburg, Germany
- Group of teachers from Germany, members of the DIVIS Society for
promotion of dialogue between Germany and Israel
- Group of students from Berlin
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of Austrian students of the Polish Language Summer School
at the Jagiellonian University
- Group of Israeli tour-guides from the Yad Vashem Institute, with
Alex Danzig
- Group of German students, participants in a seminar organized by
the International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim
- Group of American visitors from the Mazurkas Travel Office
- Group of visitors from Florida
- Group of alumnae of Stanford University, U.S.A.
- Group from Israel
- Group of students from Germany
- Group of volunteers from Germany, participants in a seminar organized
by Mrs. Elisabeth Lee-Hölscher
- Group of German visitors
- Group of German students from Mainzer Polonicum in Mainz, Germany
- Group of students from Rosa Luxemburg High School in Berlin
- Members of Elder Hostels from the USA
- Members of the Evangelical Church in Klauchau, Saxony, Germany
- Group of students from Germany
- Group of high school students from Hildenberg, Germany
- Group of visitors from Holland
- Group of students from Duisburg, Germany
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of American students from Israel
- Group of visitors from Sweden
- Group of visitors from Jerusalem
- High school students from Mountargieux, France
- Group of students from Orlean, France
- Group of youth from Germany
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of students from Limburg, Germany
- Group of volunteers from Leipzig, Germany
- Group of retired persons from Germany
- High school students from Berlin
- Group of students from Germany
- High school students from Aachen, Germany
- Group of retired persons from Hamburg, Germany
- Group of visitors from Tel-Aviv
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of history teachers from Germany
- Group of students from Berlin
- Group of youth from Berlin
- Group from Germany
- Group from Austria
- Group from Austria
- Group of visitors from Florida
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of students from Germany
- Group from Austria
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of youth from Spain and the U.S.A.
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of visitors from Grenoble, France
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of students from the Czech Republic, Great Britain and Ireland
- Group of visitors from Canada and the U.S.A.
- Group of visitors from Potsdam, Germany
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of students from the U.S.A., Luxembourg and Australia
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of visitors from the USA
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of participants in a chemistry conference from Australia,
Israel, Russia and the U.S.A.
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of visitors from the USA
- Group of visitors from Saxony, Germany
- Group of visitors from London
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of visitors from Cottbus, Germany
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of students from Berlin
- Members of Elder Hostel, U.S.A.
- Group from Aktiv Tours from Berlin and Brandenburg
- Group of visitors from Cologne, Germany
- Polish-Dutch group from Białystok and Amsterdam
- Group of visitors from Cologne, Germany
- Group of visitors from Wiesburg, Germany
- Group of visitors from Nice, France
- Group of visitors from Berlin
- Group of visitors from Cologne and Bonn, Germany
- Group of visitors from Berlin
- Group from Italy and Israel
- Group of visitors from Paris and Compiegne
- High school students from Leipzig, Germany
- Students from the Marienschule Catholic school in Krefeld, Germany
- Group of visitors from the U.S.A.
- Group of visitors from Sweden
- Members of Die Hegge Christliches Bildungswerk in Niesen, Germany
- Students from Germany, Slovakia and Poland, members of the international
school-exchange program of the Vyshehrad Group
- Group of German students - participants in the program organized
by the Catholic Students Organization at St. Anna Church in Cracow
- Members of Politische Jugend Reisen from Dresden, Germany
- Group of visitors from Tel-Aviv
- Group of youth from Lower Saxony, Germany
- Group from Dresden, Germany
- Group of visitors from Bonn, Germany
- Group of teachers from Sweden
- Group of visitors from Berlin
- Group of students from Budapest, Hungary
- Group of high school students from Germany and Slovakia
- Group of tourists from London
- Group of visitors from Germany
- Group of visitors from France
POLISH GROUPS OF VISITORS
- Group of students from Wrocław, members of the Hatikva Society for Polish-Israeli Friendship
- Group of students from Kamienna Góra
- Group of teachers, participants in the tolerance.pl conference organized by Villa Decius in Cracow
- Group of high school students from Warsaw
- Group of high school students from in Jędrzejów
- Students of the school for deaf children in Borek Fałęcki, Cracow
- Group of students from the technical high school in Racibórz
- Participants in the Ecology of Products conference at the Academy of Economics in Cracow
- Group of high school students from Gliwice
- Group of students of the Economic High School in Dąbrowa Górnicza
- Students from Szczecin
- High school students from Elbląg
- High School students from Kazimierza Wielka
- Group of visitors from Gdynia
- Students of the Music High School in Warsaw
- High school students from Mielec
- Group of youth from the Activity Therapy Center in Cracow
- Group of high school students from Elbląg
- Group of visitors from Warsaw and Katowice
- Group of high school students from Katowice
- Group of visitors from Poznań
- Group of students from Dąbrowa Górnicza
- Fourth-grade pupils from Cracow
- Students from Opole
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