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Zentrum für Jüdische Kultur
in Kazimierz - Krakau
CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE
in Kazimierz, Cracow
PROGRAM REPORT 2 0 0 4
Between January 1st, 2004 and December 31st, 2004, 218 program events took place at the Center for Jewish Culture in Cracow. Among them were:
- 78 lectures and book presentations,
- 5 conferences,
- 46 film showings,
- 22 exhibitions,
- 30 concerts and
- 37 other program-related events.
The Center was visited by
- 94 personalities from international and Polish cultural, social and political life,
- 104 foreign groups and
- 35 Polish groups of visitors.
In the year 2004 approximately 25 000 people visitied the Center and participated in its programs.
On March 14th, as every year on the occasion of the liberation of the Cracow ghetto, the Judaica Foundation – Center for Jewish Culture, Jewish Culture Festival Society, the Polish-Israeli Friendship Society in Cracow, the Cracow Dialogue Club and the Pod Orlem Pharmacy Memorial Museum, organized the MARCH OF REMEMBRANCE. In 2004 the honorary patrons of the March included Jerzy Adamik, Governor of Malopolska Province; Jacek Majchrowski, Mayor of the City of Cracow; and Tadeusz Jakubowicz, President of the Jewish Community in Cracow).
In July 2004 the Judaica Foundation - Center for Jewish Culture organized
the Summer Program POLIN 2004. An Ecumenical Study Visit of British
Christians to Jewish Sites in Europe for members of different churches
from Great Britain.
During the 9th edition of the BAYIT HADASH Encounters with Jewish
Culture program, dedicated to Rafael F. Scharf, late co-founder of the
Judaica Foundation - Center for Jewish Culture, in the main hall of
the Center the Rafael F. Scharf memorial plaque was unveiled.
On this occasion the Gazeta Wyborcza daily in Cracow issued a special
supplement to its November 18th edition.
For the first time this year, the Judaica Foundation conferred the FELEK
AWARD - Rafael F. Scharf in memoriam for those who have made a special
contribution to the revival of Jewish life in Poland and to building
bridges between Poles and Jews. This year, the first Felek Award was
given to Janusz Makuch and Krzysztof Gierat - founders of the Jewish
Culture Festival in Cracow.
LECTURES, MEETINGS
- It Began with a Dividing Line in 1966 - meeting with Waclaw
and Leslaw JANICKI,
the twins from Tadeusz Kantor’s theatre.
- Presentation of the design for the Ghetto Heroes’ Plaza in
Podgórze, with Prof. Andrzej WYZYKOWSKI, Chief Architect of Cracow
and chairman of the design competition jury, and also representatives
of the design studios that took part in the competition.
(FORUM KAZIMIERZ)
- Piotrków Trybunalski - Auschwitz - London - Melbourne - meeting
with Ben HELFGOT (Great Britain).
(59th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF KL AUSCHWITZ)
- Stalwart in the Face of Persecution. The Jehovah’s Witnesses
and Nazism - lecture by Teresa WATOR-CICHY, author of the book
Imprisoned for Faith. The Jehovah’s Witnesses in KL Auschwitz-Birkenau,
and meeting with Bernard CZOCHRA, Krzysztof LEWOWSKI and Remigiusz
KRECZMER - members of the Watchtower Society
(59th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF KL AUSCHWITZ)
- Meeting with Prof. Maria ORWID, psychiatrist, moderated by Prof.
Stanislaw OBIREK SJ. (THEOLOGY AND THE HOLOCAUST)
- The Word - A Witness. A Dictionary of the Language of KL Auschwitz
Prisoners - meeting with Jochen AUGUST, Monika BARWINSKA, Jan
MASLOWSKI and Malgorzata WILK. (59th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION
OF KL AUSCHWITZ)
- The Auschwitz-Birkenau Zone - meeting with Marek RAWECKI,
author of a book published under the same title.
(59th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF KL AUSCHWITZ)
- What the Civic Committee for the Renovation of Cracow’s Monuments
Has Done for Kazimierz - meeting with Committee members Prof.
Andrzej KURZ and Dr. Boguslaw KRASNOWOLSKI, moderated by Joachim S.
RUSSEK. (FORUM KAZIMIERZ)
- Europe After the Brussels Conference - meeting with Bogdan
KLICH, Member of the Polish Parliament (POLAND’S INTEGRATION WITH
THE EUROPEAN UNION)
- The Dreyfus Affair - lecture by Prof. Wieslaw SLADKOWSKI
of the Modern History Department of Maria Curie-Sklodowska University
in Lublin.
- Dialogue at the Threshold to Auschwitz - meeting with Rev.
Dr. Manfred DESELAERS of the Center for Prayer, Meetings and Dialogue
in Oswiecim, moderated by Prof. Stanislaw OBIREK SJ. (THEOLOGY
AND THE HOLOCAUST)
- The Jewish Religious Community Council of Poland, Headquartered
in Warsaw - meeting with Boleslaw SZENICER, President of the Community
Council.
(JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN POLAND)
- Jews in Occupied Cracow - lecture by Prof. Andrzej CHWALBA
of the History Institute of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.
(ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF THE CRACOW GHETTO)
- A Murdered World - meeting with Katarzyna ZIMMERER, journalist,
author of a book about the Cracow ghetto.
(ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATIO OF THE CRACOW GHETTO)
- Occupied Cracow in Photographs - meeting with Prof. Aleksander
SKOTNICKI, Wladyslaw KLIMCZAK, Chairman of the Cracow Photographic
Society, and Aleksandra KURCZAB-POMIANOWSKA with the participation
of Tadeusz MALAK
(ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF THE CRACOW GHETTO)
- The Jewish Community in Podgórze in 1891-1936 - lecture by
Barbara ZBROJA, art historian. (ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF
THE CRACOW GHETTO)
- The Challenge of Polish-Jewish Dialogue - meeting with Stefan
WILKANOWICZ of the Forum for Christian- Jewish Dialogue, moderated
by Joachim S. RUSSEK.
(FORUM KAZIMIERZ)
- Janina Garycka of the Rams’ Cellar Cabaret Speaks of March ’68
and Other Things - presentation of a radio interview with Radio
Cracow journalist Jolanta DRUZYNSKA, with the participation of Prof.
Michal ROZEK. (MARCH ’68 EVENTS IN POLAND)
- Where is God in the Middle East? - meeting with Dr. Beata
KOWALSKA of the Jagiellonian University.
- Father Stanislaw Musial SJ, in memoriam - an evening commemorating
Father Musial SJ, late member of the Judaica Foundation Board, with
the participation of Rev. Adam BONIECKI, Editor-in-Chief of Tygodnik
Powszechny weekly, Józefa HENNELOWA and Krzysztof KOZLOWSKI, organized
jointly with Tygodnik Powszechny weekly.
- The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - 61 Years Later - meeting with
Prof. Barbara ENGELKING. (61st ANNIVERSARY OF THE WARSAW GHETTO
UPRISING)
- The Inability to Speak - meeting with Rabbi Sacha Pecaric
of the Ronald Lauder Foundation in Cracow, moderated by Prof. Stanislaw
OBIREK SJ.
(THEOLOGY AND THE HOLOCAUST)
- Meeting with Wlodzimierz KAC, President of the Jewish Religious
Community in Katowice. (JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN POLAND)
- Abraham J. Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue - meeting
with Prof. Harold KASIMOW of Grinnel College (U.S.A.), moderated by
Prof. Stanislaw OBIREK SJ (in English). (THEOLOGY AND THE HOLOCAUST)
- Poland in Europe - Civil Society as a Challenge and a Task
- meeting with Prof. Marek SIEMEK of the Polish Academy of Sciences
and Arts.
(DEMOCRACY AND TOLERANCE)
- 26) Meeting with Marek OSTROWSKI, journalist of Polityka weekly
(POLAND IN THE EUROPEAN UNION)
- Ignacy Domeyko and His Two Homelands - meeting with Prof.
Zdzislaw Jan Ryn, former Polish Ambassador to Chile. (DEMOCRACY
AND TOLERANCE)
- Polish Ambivalence About Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries
- meeting with Prof. Marcin KRÓL of the Institute for Social Studies,
University of Warsaw.
(POLAND'S INTEGRATION WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION)
- History of the Jews in Slovakia - lecture by Prof. Pavel
ME©TAN, Director of the Jewish Culture Museum in Bratyslava and Katarina
WIECHA of the Jewish Culture Museum in Bratyslava. (JEWS IN SLOVAKIA)
- Night Life in Kazimierz - Bright Spots and Shadows, panel
discussion with Malgorzata WALCZAK, member of the Friends of Royal
Kazimierz Society, Wojciech KOZDRONKIEWICZ, Chairman of the Kazimierz
Council, Dr. Boguslaw KRASNOWOLSKI, urban planner and architect, and
citizens of Kazimierz, moderated by Joachim S. RUSSEK. (FORUM KAZIMIERZ)
- My Experience with Tolerance in Poland - meeting with Brian
SCOTT, radio and television journalist and teacher. (DEMOCRACY
AND TOLERANCE)
- Battlefields of Memory: Landscape and Identity in Polish-Jewish
Relations - lecture by Dr. Slawomir KAPRALSKI, Centre for Social
Studies in Warsaw
(14th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL IN CRACOW)
- Imaging Faith in Modern Britain. R. S. Thomas - Welsh Poet-Priest
- lecture by the Most Reverend Dr. Barry MORGAN, Archbishop of Wales
- open lecture as part of the POLIN 2004 Summer Program - An ecumenical
study visit of British Christians to Jewish sites in Poland (lecture
in English).
- Between Cracow and Tel-Aviv - meeting with Miriam AKAVIA,
Israeli writer
(14th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL IN CRACOW)
- Hassidic Singing - workshop with cantor Benzion MILLER
(14th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL IN CRACOW)
- Hassidic Singing - workshop with cantor Benzion MILLER -
second meeting
(14th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL IN CRACOW)
- Hassidic Singing - workshop with cantor Benzion MILLER -
third meeting
(14th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL IN CRACOW)
- Basic Judaism. Two civilizations: Ashkenazim and Sephardim
- lecture by Benzion MILLER (14th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL IN CRACOW)
- Meeting with Oren RUDAWSKI and Menachem DAUM, authors of the documentary
film Hiding and Seeking (14th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL IN CRACOW)
- Meeting with Aviva SLESIN, author of the documentary film Hidden
Children
(14th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL IN CRACOW)
- The Jews in Cracow, a 700-Year Presence - lecture by Prof.
Michal ROZEK.
(BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Professor Jan Karski - lecture by Dr. Kaja PLOSS (Washington,
D.C.).
(BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Meeting with Miroslaw CHOJECKI, Director of the Warsaw International
Jewish Film Festival (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Jews and the Recovery of Poland's Independence - lecture
by Prof. Szymon RUDNICKI. (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH
CULTURE)
- Czeslaw Milosz in memoriam - meeting with Katarzyna JANOWSKA
and Piotr MUCHARSKI, authors of the last TV interview with Czeslaw
Milosz
(BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Israel - State of Jews or State of Israelis? - lecture by
Konstanty GEBERT.
(BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- The Shadow of the Holocaust on the Jagiellonian University
- lecture by Professor Stanislaw WALTOS. (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS
WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Jacek Kuron - meeting devoted to his memory, with Rev. Adam
BONIECKI, Halina BORTNOWSKA, Ewa KURYLUK and Andrzej ROSNER, and presentation
of the book A Republic for My Grandchildren (in Polish) by Jacek Kuron.
(BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Polish Maccabees - lecture by Professor Maria JANION.
(BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Józef Dietl - Physician, Rector of the Jagiellonian University,
Mayor of Cracow - lecture by Professor Aleksander SKOTNICKI, organized
jointly with the Cracow Medical Society. (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS
WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Irony in the Shadow of the Holocaust. Jadwiga Maurer's Writings
-
lecture by Professor Stanislaw STABRO, Jagiellonian University.
(BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Goldi: About My Parents - meeting with Ewa KURYLUK (Paris)
(BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Father Stanislaw Musial SJ - a Kaddish and a Basket of Crumbs
- meeting dedicated to the memory of Father Stanislaw Musial SJ, late
member of the Judaica Foundation Board
(BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Against Contempt - lecture by Prof. Henryk MARKIEWICZ, as
part of the ALEKSANDER AND ALICJA HERTZ ANNUAL MEMORIAL LECTURE series
(BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Poles and Lithuanians - Friends or Enemies? - lecture by
Prof. Krzysztof TARKA of Opole University
(KALEIDOSCOPE OF CULTURES: LITHUANIANS IN POLAND)
- Lithuanians in Poland - from the Interwar Period until Now
- lecture by Dr. Bronius MAKAUSKAS, Deputy President of the Lithuanian
Community in Poland
(KALEIDOSCOPE OF CULTURES: LITHUANIANS IN POLAND)
- Lithuanians in Poland - Nowadays - lecture by Irena GASPEROWICZ,
President of the Lithuanian Community in Punsk, and Dalia UZDILA of
the Lithuanian House in Sejny
(KALEIDOSCOPE OF CULTURES: LITHUANIANS IN POLAND)
- East of the West. How to Be with Russia - meeting with Prof.
Jerzy POMIANOWSKI an author of the book under the same title. (DEMOCRACY
AND TOLERANCE)
- 700 years of the Jewish Community in Cracow - lecture by
Prof. Jan Maria MALECKI on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of
the Jewish presence in Cracow; lecture organized jointly with the
Cracow Jewish Community.
- Chechens - Victims or Terrorists? - meeting with Krystyna
KURCZAB-REDLICH, journalist, author of a documentary film about Chechnya.
(DEMOCRACY AND TOLERANCE)
BOOK PRESENTATIONS, MEETINGS WITH AUTHORS
- The Lucky One (in Polish) by Magdalena GRODZKA-GUZKOWSKA,
and meeting with the author, moderated by Dr. Zofia RADZIKOWSKA, organized
jointly with the Austeria Publishing House in Cracow.
- The Polish Wallenberg. About Henryk Slawik (in Polish) by
Grzegorz LUBCZYK and meeting with the author, organized jointly with
the Hungarian Cultural Center in Warsaw
- Cinema Encyclopedia (in Polish) - meeting with its editor,
Prof. Tadeusz LUBELSKI
- Book of Books. The Midrash (in Polish) by Pawel SPIEWAK,
and meeting with the author, moderated by Agnieszka SABOR, organized
jointly with the ZNAK Publishing House.
- Jan Karski - meeting with Stanislaw M. JANKOWSKI, author
of a book about Jan Karski, and film presentation: My Mission. Organized
on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of Jan Karski’s birth.
- Murdered World (in Polish) by Katarzyna ZIMMERER, and meeting
with the author, organized jointly with Wydawnictwo Literackie publishing
house in Cracow.
- Slownik schulzowski - meeting with Prof. Jerzy JARZEBSKI,
co-author of a dictionary of terms related to Bruno Schulz..
- The Book of Questions (in Polish) by Edmond JABES - presentation
of Volume I of the Polish translation, with Prof. Adam WODNICKI, translator
and authority on the works of Jabes, and with Agnieszka SABOR, editor
of the book; organized jointly with the AUSTERIA Publishing House.
- Gangrene (in Polish) by Erwin SCHENKELBACH (Israel), and
meeting with the author, moderated by Krzysztof MIKLASZEWSKI, organized
jointly with Hamartef Publishing House
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec - Pole, Jew, European - lecture by Professor
Karl DEDECIUS, and presentation of the book of the same title (in
English and Polish), published by the Judaica Foundation in the ALEKSANDER
AND ALICJA HERTZ ANNUAL MEMORIAL LECTURE series. (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS
WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- ...As Thyself. The German Churches and the "Jewish Question"
- lecture by Prof. Anna WOLFF-POWESKA, Western Institute, Poznan,
and presentation of the book of the same title. (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS
WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Their Town (in Polish) by Anis D. PORDES, and meeting with
the author, moderated by Irek GRIN. (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH
JEWISH CULTURE)
- How Poles and Jews Lived Under One Roof - lecture by Professor
Marcin KULA, and presentation of his book Stubborn Question. Jewish?
Polish? Human? (in Polish) published by the UNIVERSITAS Publishing
House. (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Don’t be Afraid of Gypsies - meeting with Adam BARTOSZ,
Director of the Regional Musuem in Tarnów, author of the book (in
Polish) under the same title.
- A Journey to the Sources of Memory - meeting with Uri HUPPERT
(Israel) and presentation of the book (in Polish) under the same title.
- Eichmann in My Hands - meeting with Peter Z. MALKIN and
presentation of the Polish edition of his book (in Polish), organized
jointly with EMKA Studio Publishing House
- According to Her - presentation of the book by Maciej NAWARIAK,
and meeting with the author.
- Beyond the Limits of Thought - Everything - presentation
of the book by Stanislaw Mateusz Gasiorowski, organized jointly with
Lexis Publishing House and Maria ROSTWOROWSKA.
CONFERENCES, PANEL DISCUSSIONS, SEMINARS
- Mel Gibson's "Passion" - panel discussion with panelists
Jan NOWICKI, Prof. Stanislaw OBIREK SJ, Michal SOBELMAN and Prof.
Jan WOLENSKI
- The New Jewish Cemetery in Cracow, 1804-2004 - seminar organized
jointly with the Commission on the History and Culture of Polish Jews
of the Polish Academy Sciences and Arts and the Chair of Judaic Studies
of the Jagiellonian University. (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH
CULTURE)
- Conference for young French journalists on the occasion of the 59th
anniversary of the liberation of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- Seminar for volunteers from Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic
and Poland organized by Verein fur Dienste im Ausland,Vienna.
- Conference of the European Council of the Jewish Community.
FILM SHOWINGS
- Wanted by Stanislaw Bareja (THE NATIONAL CHARITY CAMPAIGN
ORCHESTRA)
- Every Rose Has Flames by Stanislaw Bareja (THE NATIONAL
CHARITY CAMPAIGN ORCHESTRA)
- Teddy Bear by Stanislaw Bareja (THE NATIONAL CHARITY CAMPAIGN
ORCHESTRA)
- This Phone Monitored by Sylwester Checinski (THE NATIONAL
CHARITY CAMPAIGN ORCHESTRA)
- Kornblumenblau by Leszek WOSIEWICZ (59th ANNIVERSARY OF
THE LIBERATION OF KL AUSCHWITZ)
- The City Was in His Heart. Zbigniew Herbert's Lwów - documentary
film by Jerzy Morawski
- It's Gonna Be Better - film with the Lwów comedians Szczepcio
and Toncio, introduction by Prof. Tadeusz LUBELSKI of the Jagiellonian
University Film Institute.
- Jazzman from the Gulag - documentary about jazz musician
Eddie Rosner by P. H. Salfati
- George Gershwin - American Composer - BBC Documentary
- The What and the Why of Kazimierz Karabasz - documentary
by Nikola Lorencin
- Franek W.'s Year - documentary by Kazimierz Karabasz
- The Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein
- The Way of Youth by Aleksander Ford
- The Olympic Games by Leni RIEFENSTAHL
- Ram's Cellar Cabaret by Antoni KRAUZE (parts I and II)
- Ram's Cellar Cabaret by Antoni KRAUZE (parts III and IV)
- Schindler's List by Steven Spielberg
- My Father, Henryk Splawik - documentary by M. Maldis, G.
Lupczyk and J. Zub.
- March Almonds by Radoslaw PIWOWARSKI
- The Eyes of the Holocaust - documentary by Janos SZASZ (HUNGARIAN
WEEK OF JEWISH CULTURE)
- Porrajamos - documentary by Agot VARGA (HUNGARIAN WEEK
OF JEWISH CULTURE)
- Donau Exodus - documentary by Peter FORGACS (HUNGARIAN
WEEK OF JEWISH CULTURE)
- To Speak the Unspeakable - documentary by Judit ELEK (HUNGARIAN
WEEK OF JEWISH CULTURE)
- I am Jewish in Hungary, I am Hungarian in Israel - documentary
by Diana GROÓ (HUNGARIAN WEEK OF JEWISH CULTURE)
- Rabbi Chatam Sofer - documentary by Ivan Hnúąt (JEWS
IN SLOVAKIA)
- Belief and the Holocaust - Testimony of Rabbi Israel Lau
- documentary by Ivan Hnúąt (JEWS IN SLOVAKIA)
- Hiding and Seeking - documentary by Menachem Daum and Oren
Rudawski (14th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- Hidden Children - documentary by Aviva Slesin (14th JEWISH
CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- The Work - documentary by Bernard Offen (14th JEWISH
CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- My Hometown Concentration Camp - documentary by Bernard
Offen (14th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- Proces B7815 - documentary by Bernard Offen (14th JEWISH
CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- Engraved on Film - showing of documentary films about Rafael
F. SCHARF. (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Showing of prizewinning films from the 2004 Warsaw International
Jewish Film Festival (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- In the Pupil of the Eye - documentary about Ewa Kuryluk
by Andrzej Titkow. (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Songs of the Unknown Land - documentaries presenting life
of Lithuanians in Poland (KALEIDOSCOPE OF CULTURES: LITHUANIANS
IN POLAND)
- Dieses Jahr in Czernowitz (This Year in Chernovitz) - documentary
by Volker Koepp, introduced by Professor Tadeusz LUBELSKI. (BAYIT
HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Korczak by Andrzej Wajda (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH
JEWISH CULTURE)
- In the Likeness of Jacek. Sketch for a Portrait of Jacek Kuron
- documentary by Andrzej Titkow. (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH
JEWISH CULTURE)
- The Dance of His Life (Er tanzte das Leben) - documentary
by Marian CZURA (Hamburg) (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH
CULTURE)
- Vilnius - Milosz's Home Town - documentary by Andrzej Milosz
(BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Conversations at the Beginning of the Century: Czeslaw Milosz
- presentation of the last TV interview with Czeslaw Milosz (BAYIT
HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Divan - documentary by Pearl GLUCK (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS
WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Loved and Hated. The Drama of the Life and Death of the Polish
Film Director Aleksander Ford - documentary by Stanislaw Janicki,
introduced by Professor Tadeusz LUBELSKI. (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS
WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- The Dance of His Life (Er tanzte das Leben) - documentary
by Marian CZURA, presented at the request of the audience
- Reading Sienkiewicz in the Negev Desert - showing of a documentary
about Alex Danzig during the Days of Dialogue in Tomaszów Lubelski.
- Kibbutz Nir-Oz - showing of a documentary about Alex Danzig
during the Days of Dialogue in Tomaszów Lubelski.
EXHIBITIONS
- Traces of History in Oswiecim - exhibition of art by deaf
and hearing-impaired people from Giessen (Germany) and Warsaw, co-organized
with the International Youth Meeting Center in Oswiecim.
- Exhibition of sculptures by Wanda LADNIEWSKA, late Auschwitz
survivor, on the occasion of the 59th anniversary of KL Auschwitz
liberation.
- Zola and the Dreyfus Affair. A Moment in Humanity's Conscience
- opening of an exhibition of documentary materials from the Lorraine
Beitler Collection, University of Pennsylvania
- Jewish Cracow - opening of a photographic exhibition by Jacek
BALCEWICZ
- Dream, Memory, Love - opening of an exhibition of paintings
by Michael ROGATCHI (Finland).
- Towards the Light - opening of an exhibition of paintings
by Ora SINGER (Israel).
- Jewish Tradition in Hungary - opening of an exhibition of
photographs by Tamás FÉNER (HUNGARIAN WEEK OF JEWISH CULTURE)
- Because the Other Books are Like Meteors. Illustrations to Bruno
Schulz's Prose - exhibition of work by Wieslaw SZUMINSKI (Sejny)
- Book of Questions by Edmond Jabes - exhibition of selected
entries in the international competition for the book cover, organized
by art schools in Cracow and Paris.
- I Have Time - exhibition of paintings by Halina KOZIOL (Oswiecim),
organized jointly with the International Youth Meeting Center in Oswiecim.
- Chatam Sofer's Tomb in Bratislava - photographs by Andrej
BÁN (Bratislava) (JEWS IN SLOVAKIA)
- In the Changes of Time - photographs by Viera KAMENICKA
(Bratislava) (JEWS IN SLOVAKIA)
- Faces - exhibition of paintings and prints by Zwy MILSTEIN
(France), organized jointly with the Da Gamma Society and the French
Culture Institute (14th JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- Exhibition of paintings by Ewa SENCZAWA (Switzerland) (14th
JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL)
- Enchanted Kazimierz - exhibition of photographs by Elzbieta
LEMPP (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Mr. Pen, an Unfinished Autobiography - exhibition of drawings
by Andrzej KRAUZE (London). Exhibition arranged within the framework
of the UK21 Festival, organized jointly with the British Embassy in
Warsaw and the British Council. (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH
CULTURE)
- Seinerzeit ausgewandert nach Palästina (Emigrated to Palestine
Long Ago) - exhibition of prints by Reinhold EGERTH and Christine
PIRKER (Austria), organized jointly with the Austrian Consulate General
in Cracow. (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Tykocin - After-images - exhibition of photographs by Boguslaw
ULICKI (Warsaw).
- Stalwart in the face of persecution. The Jehovah's Witnesses
and Nazism - documentary exhibition about the persecution of Jehovah's
Witness during World War II.
- Exhibition of prints by Kaja POTOCKA-WOLAK (Cracow)
- Cats - exhibition of paintings of disabled people, organized
jointly with Miodowa Gallery in Cracow, Sara Café, and Therapy Workshops
for Disabled People in Cracow.
- The Faces of Photographs - exhibition of press photographs
by photographers of Gazeta Wyborcza daily in Cracow.
CONCERTS, THEATER PERFORMANCES
- Jazz concert performed by Gilad ROTH (saxophone, Israel), Asaf SIRKIS
(percussion, Israel) and Maciej DOMARADZKI (bass guitar, Poland).
- Chamber music concert performed by the Piera DADOMO and Vincenzo
TORRICELLA Duo (guitar, mandolin, Italy), organized jointly with the
Italian Cultural Institute in Cracow
- Concert of Mexican and Spanish songs performed by Julietta GONZALES
(soprano, castanets) and Rodrigo de STEFANIS (lute, barocco guitar),
organized jointly with the Cervantes Institute in Warsaw and Mr. Janusz
Postolko, Honorary Consul of Mexico in Cracow.
- Purim Shalechmones - concert of Purim songs performed by
Irena URBANSKA (voice), Leslaw LIC (clarinette), Roman SLAZYK (double-bass)
and Oskar GUT (accordeon).
- Chamber music concert performed by Barbara GASIOR (violin), Anna
OSTACHOWSKA (viola), Ewa PAWLOWSKA (cello), Michal DZIAD (piano),
Marcin WOLAK (baritone) and Janina WERNER (piano). Concert organized
jointly with the French Culture Institute in Cracow.
- Chamber music concert performed by Marco GERBONI and Giorgio FARINA
(saxophone and piano), organized jointly with the Italian Cultural
Institute in Cracow.
- Koluch & the Haveyrim - concert of Jewish songs performed
by Mariusz KOLUCH (voice), Jacek ZIOBRO (trumpet), Max KOWALSKI (double
bass) and Bartlomiej SZCZEPANSKI (percussion). Concert organized jointly
with the Homini Publishing House.
- Piano recital by Piotr RÓZANSKI.
- L'Hayim! - concert of Jewish songs performed by Ervin SCHONHAUSER
(baritone) and Igor BÁZLIK (piano). (JEWS IN SLOVAKIA)
- Chamber music concert performed by the VIOLARIUM TRIO (Cracow):
Anna KOZERA (violin), Mariusz GROCHOWSKI (viola) and Lukasz SZYMANOWSKI
(cello).
- Chamber music concert performed by Krzysztof KLIMA and Renata ZOLOBOWSKA
(INTERNATIONAL CLARINET FESTIVAL)
- Chamber music concert performed by Szymon KLIMA, Jacek MUZYK and
Renata ZOLOBOWSKA (INTERNATIONAL CLARINET FESTIVAL)
- Concert performed by the pupils of the State Music School in Cracow
on the occasion of Mother's Day.
- Piano Recital performed by Stefan LABANOWSKI in Ignacy Paderewski's
Manor House in Kasna Dolna.
- Piano recital by Piotr RÓZANSKI.
- Concert of Jewish music performed by QUARTET KLEZMER TRIO in the
castle in Przemysl, as a part of the Musical Autumn in Przemysl Festival.
- Piano recital by Rev. Jean RUDOLF for a group of French Catholics.
- NEW YEAR'S CONCERT - ROSH HA-SHANA 5765 Concert of synagogal
music and Yiddish songs performed by the LEIPZIG SYNAGOGAL CHOIR,
conducted by Maestro Helmut KLOTZ; soloists: Ulrike HELZEL (alto),
Helmut KLOTZ (tenor), Egbert JUNGHANS (baritone) and Clemens POSSELT
(piano). (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Concert of Jewish, Armenian and Russian songs performed by Irena
VORONTSOVA (voice, Moscow) and Igor EGIKOV (piano, Moscow). (BAYIT
HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Concert of Lithuanian music performed by SESUPE Ensemble (Sejny)
(KALEIDOSCOPE OF CULTURES: LITHUANIANS IN POLAND)
- Concert of klezmer music performed by DI GALITZYANER KLEZMORIM:
Mariola SPIEWAK (clarinet), Grzegorz SPIEWAK (accordion) and Rafal
SEWERYNIAK (double bass). (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH
CULTURE)
- Destination Unknown - world premiere of a composition by
Bartosz CHAJDECKI performed by the QUADRIGA chamber orchestra, directed
by Piotr SULKOWSKI. (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Deco Diva - monodrama about Tamara Lempicka performed by
Kara WILSON (London). Theater performance arranged within the framework
of the UK21 Festival, organized jointly with the British Embassy in
Warsaw and the British Council. (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH
CULTURE)
- Guitar music concert performed by Sante TURSKI (Italy), organized
jointly with the Italian Culture Institute in Cracow. (BAYIT HADASH
ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Concert of klezmer music performed by ZINA & FEDERMAN (Berlin).
(BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Chamber music concert performed by the STRAUSS ENSEMBLE OF VIENNA:
Alfred PFLEGER (violin), Chrisoula KOMBOTIS (violin), Irene FRANK
(cello), Wolfgang HARRER (double bass) and Christian HEITLER (piano).
Concert organized jointly with the Austrian Consulate General in Cracow,
Wien Kultur, Wiener-Krakauer Kultur-Gesellschaft and the Austrian
Cultural Forum. (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- THE 11th ANNIVERSARY OF THE OPENING OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH
CULTURE - concert of chamber music performed by Kaja DANCZOWSKA
(violin, Poland), Jeremy FINDLAY (cello, Canada) and Ellen BRASLAVSKY
(piano, U.S.A.). Concert organized jointly with the Canadian Embassy
and the Italian Culture Institute in Cracow. (BAYIT HADASH ENCOUNTERS
WITH JEWISH CULTURE)
- Witold Lutoslawski - The Source of Fascination - concert
performed by the DAFO Quartet (Cracow): Justyna DUDA (violin), Danuta
AUGUSTYN (violin), Kinga ROESLER (viola) and Anna ARMATYS (cello).
- Concert of Jewish Music performed by the REINER TRIO: Roman REINER
(violin), Barbara LYPIK-SOBANIEC (cello) and Slawomir CIERPIK (piano).
Concert on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the Jewish presence
in Cracow, organized jointly with the Jewish Community in Cracow.
- NEW YEAR'S EVE CONCERT 2004 / 2005 Piano concert performed
by Stefan Labanowski and Piotr Rózanski.
OTHER EVENTS
- Polish Judaica - Time of Stones, Time of Life - slide show
by Anna OLEJ-KOBUS and Krzysztof KOBUS.
- Something Like That - multimedia show by Andrzej KRAMARZ,
presenting his photographs made over the past ten years
- Post card auction organized by the RARA AVIS Antiquarian
Bookstore (February)
- Book Auction organized by the RARA AVIS Antiquarian Bookstore
(March)
- Presentation of the Polish Make a Wish Foundation, helping
terminally ill children to make their wishes come true.
- Post card auction organized by the RARA AVIS Antiquarian
Bookstore (September)
- Book auction organzied by the RARA AVIS Antiquarian Bookstore
(September)
- Book auction organized by the RARA AVIS Antiquarian Bookstore
(October)
- Unveiling of the Rafael F. Scharf memorial plaque at the
Center for Jewish Culture.
- Meeting of the Poland - Israel Friendship Society
- Monthly meetings of the Righteous Among the Nations Society
(12 meetings)
- Lectures and guided tours of the Zola and the Dreyfuss
Affair exhibition for the students of the school from Cracow's
Kazimierz.
- Ceremony conferring Righteous Among the Nations medals to
Poles who rescued Jews during World War II, organized by the Israeli
Embassy in Warsaw and the Yad Vashem Institute.
- Ceremony on the occasion of the 61st anniversary of the
liquidation of the Cracow ghetto, organized by the Society to Protect
Majdanek, for school children from Cracow.
- Meeting of German priests with Wlodzimierz Stein, Holocaust
survivor, member of the Jewish Religious Community in Cracow.
- Press conference related to the Hungarian Week of Jewish
Culture with the participation of Zsoltan Nagyivani, Hungarian Consul
General in Cracow, and Patricia Paszt, Director of the Hungarian Center
in Cracow.
- Workshop for Polish volunteers of the Make a Wish Foundation.
- First meeting of members of the GESHER Society for Polish-Israeli
Friendship.
- Showing of a film about the Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow,
organized by the GESHER Society.
- Meeting of German teachers with Stella Muller-Madej, Holocaust
survivor from Cracow.
- Auction of homeless cats, organized by Shelter for Animals
in Cracow and the Sara Café.
- The Faces of Photographs - slide show by photographers of
Cracow's Gazeta Wyborcza daily.
VISITS
- Prof. Hanna Buczynska-Garewicz, Holy Cross University, MA, U.S.A.
- Michel Raineri, French Consul General in Cracow
- Dr. Hermine Poppeller, Austrian Consul General in Cracow
- Dr. Stefan Wackwitz, Director of the Goethe Institute in Cracow
- Aleksandr Medownikow, Ukrainian Consul General in Cracow
- Walerij Rodionow, Russian Consul General in Cracow
- Stanislaw Kracik, Mayor of Niepolomice near Cracow
- Zoltan Nagyivanyi, Hungarian Consul General in Cracow
- Krisztina Baba, Deputy Director of the Hungarian Culture Institute
in Warsaw
- Frank Schober, Cultural Attache of the German Consulate in Cracow
- Jan Okonski, President of the Our City caucus in the Cracow City
Council
- Wlodzimierz Kac, President of the Jewish Community in Katowice
- Bozena Wawrzyniak, Director of the Jewish Community Office in Katowice
- Alexandra Davison, Political Secretary of the British Embassy in
Warsaw
- Mieczyslaw Lagosz, Chairman of the socialists' caucus (SLD-UP) in
the Cracow City Council
- Pawel Zaorski, Chairman of the liberal caucus (PO) in the Cracow
City Council
- Stanislaw Handzlik, Chairman of the Culture Commission of the Cracow
City Council
- Andrzej Sasula, Deputy Marshal of Malopolska Province
- Krzysztof Markiel, Director of the Department of Culture and Education
of the Marshal's Office in Cracow
- Lilli Galili, journalist of Ha'aretz newspaper, Israel
- Haruhisa Ogawa, the Society to Help Returnees to North Korea
- Prof. Jacek Kochanowicz, President of the "Karta z dziejów" (Chapter
of History) Foundation
- Prof. Gustaw Kazimierz Zemla, sculptor
- His Excellency Cardinal Franciszek Macharski
- Sirpa Rautio, Director of the Human Rights Section of the OSCE in
Warsaw
- Piotr Döerre, President of the Polish Family League caucus in the
Cracow City Council
- Bishop Kazimierz Nycz
- David Peleg, Israeli Ambassador to Poland
- Stanislawa Urbaniak, Deputy Mayor of Cracow
- Anna Tarnawska, Provincial Office
- Pawel Pytko, Chairman of the Cracow City Council
- Agnieszka Gilarska, Director of the Cracow 2000 office
- Rabbi Jakub Szwejcer, Chief-Rabbi of Budapest
- Yosef Lapid, Deputy Prime-Minister and Minister of Justice of Israel
- Christian Strohal, Director, Organization for Democratic Institutions
and Human Rights
- Helmut Morlock, architect from Germany, member of the Foundation
for the International Youth Meeting Center in Oswiecim
- Dieter Althaus, Prime-Minister of Turingen, Germany
- Bishop Dr. Joachim Wanke, Erfurt, Germany
- Franz Kaiser, European Minister of Turingen, Germany
- Jürgen Reinholz, Minister of Labor of Turingen, Germany
- Prof. Karen Gould, University of Cincinnati
- Prof. Robert Schwarzworld, University of Massachusetts, Elmhurst
- Carlos Blau, Costa Rica, born in Cracow's Kazimierz district
- Prof. Gerd R. Hoff, Dean of the Education and Psychology Faculty
at the Freie Universitat in Berlin
- Guy Feaux de la Croix, Director of the Cultural Department of the
German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Amos Lozzatto, President of the Union of Jewish Communities in Italy
- Pietro Marchesani, translator of Polish literature into Italian
- Bernard i Barbara Osher, Osher Foundation, San Francisco
- Tad Taube, Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture, San Francisco
- Most Reverend Bishop Dr. Barry Morgan, Great Britain
- Canon Michael Ipgrave, Great Britain
- Miriam Akavia, writer from Israel, born in Cracow
- Lena Stanley-Clamp, Jewish Policy Institute, London
- Belinda Cook, New School, New York
- Dr. Victoria Mochalowa, Sefer Institute, Moscow
- Felicia Haberfeld, U.S.A.
- Dr. Margolis-Edelman
- Michael Steinman, Philadelphia
- Ben Helfgot, London
- Lili Pohlman, London
- Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Lysyshyn, Canadian Ambassador to Poland
- Dr. Haydar Sari, Cultural Department of the Vienna City Council
- Dr. Hans Guggenheim, Boston
- Irena Fugalewicz, Silesia Foundation
- Henryka Zabicka, Silesian Foundation
- Robert Kuwalek, Director of the Belzec Memorial and Museum
- Marek Szczepanek, Director of Cracow Public Television
- Reinhard Caspari, German-Polish Association in Gottingen, GErmany
- Mereille Silcoff, Senior Editor, Saturday Post, National Post, Canada
- Philip Broadley, Prudential plc, Great Britain
- Liza Vizard, Prudential plc, Great Britain
- Beata Mrozowska, Lovells Law Office, Warsaw
- Prof. Franz Haslinger, Institute of Ethics and Medicine, Vienna
- Szmuel Wircer, Director of the Jewish Theater in Tel-Aviv
- Meier Mandelman, Israel
- Anna Borgenicht, London
- Malgorzata Dzieduszycka, Director of the Foreign Department in the
Polish Ministry of Culture
- Krzysztof Potocki, Paris
- Yossef Levy, Political Counselor, Israeli Embassy in Warsaw
- Norman Kleeblatt, curator, Jewish Museum, New York
- Lea Shinar, writer from Israel, born in Cracow
- Egidijus Meilunas, Lithuanian Ambassador to Poland
- Audrone Markeviciene, Secretary of the Lithuanian Embassy in Warsaw
- Evaldas Stenkievicius, Cultural Attache of the Lithuanian Embassy
in Warsaw
- Dr. Holger Politt, Director of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in
Warsaw
- Charles Crawford, Ambassador of Great Britain to Poland
- Tim Simmons, Deputy Ambassador of Great Britain to Poland
- Susan Maingay, Director of the British Council in Poland
- Television journalists from Perugia, Italy
- Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, CEO of PEKAO S.A. Bank
- Prof. dr hab. Adam Suchonski, Director of the History Institute
at Opole University
- Ryszard Horowitz
- Jörg-Ingo Weber, Member of local Parliament from Berlin (Senatsrat
a. D. Berlin)
- Adam Easton, BBC correspondent in Warsaw
FOREIGN GROUPS OF VISITORS
- Group from Munich and Hamburg
- Students of Polish language and culture at the Mainzer Polonicum
in Mainz, Germany
- Group of Israelis from a kibbutz
- Students from Zaporoze, Ukraine
- Group of religious youth from the U.S.A.
- Fellows of the German Marshall Fund from the U.S.A.
- German priests from Rhine region
- Students from Spanish Galicia - guests of the high school in Cracow's
Kazimierz within the Socrates program
- High school students from Moers in Belgium, guests of the High School
No.10 in Cracow
- High school students from Oest near Dortmund, Germany, participants
in a seminar organized in the International Youth Meeting Center in
Oswiecim
- American students of sociology at the Jagiellonian University
- Members of the Rotary Clubs in north Germany
- Members of Rotary Clubs in south Germany, with Helmut Morlock
- Young Jewish leaders of the United Jewish Appeal
- Students of the Akademia High School in Finland
- Group from Germany
- Group of young people from Jerusalem
- Group of Israelis from a kibbutz
- Students from Canada
- Jewish group from Prodi, Italy
- Group of students from Sweden
- Group of high school students from Israel
- Members of the Rotary Club, Hamburg
- German students
- Group from Minneapolis, U.S.A.
- Group of students from Jerusalem and Kassel
- Group from Hannover
- Students from Germany
- High school students from Bayern, Germany
- Group of tourists from Germany
- Group of students from Jena, Germany
- Students from Germany
- Jewish group from Italy, members of the Italian Union of Jewish
Communities
- Fellows of the German Marshall Fund, U.S.A.
- Group of students of the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point,
U.S.A.
- Students of the Realschule Bockenem in Germany
- Group from Berlin
- Students from Meklemburg, Germany
- Group from Nuremberg
- Group from the police school in Hamburg
- Students from Dresden, Germany
- Group of American volunteers at the Auschwitz Jewish Center
- American students of CET Jewish Studies in Prague
- Russian students of the Sefer Institute in Moscow
- High school students from Germany
- Delegation from the Boll Foundation, Germany
- Die Zeit readers' club members from Germany
- Jewish group from London
- Theology students from Turku University, Finnland
- Group of students of the American School in Warsaw (students from
the U.S.A., Japan and Poland)
- Students from Sweden
- Group from Germany
- Group of young people from Vienna
- Group of young people from Belgium
- Group of students from Austria
- Group of young people from Germany
- Die Zeit readers' club members from Germany
- Young people from Freiburg, Germany
- Group from Munich
- Group from Germany
- Members of Politische Bildung Akademie in Dresden, Germany
- Students from Switzerland
- Students from Heidelberg, Germany
- Group of teachers from Berlin
- Group from Germany
- Group from Deutsche Bildungswerk in Nordrein, Germany
- Members of the German - Polish Association in Germany
- American students of the LEXIA International program in Berlin
- Group of Catholics from Burgundy, France
- Students of technical school in Munich, Germany
- Group from Washington, D.C.
- Group of young people from Germany
- Group of young people from Germany
- High school students from Heidelberg
- High school students from Berlin and Dresden
- High school students from Münster
- Members of Assosation de Jeunesse from Paris
- Group of high school students from Tubing near Stuttgart, Germany
- American students of the CEU in Prague
- Group from Frankfurt / Main
- Group from Hessen, Germany
- Teachers from Lithuania
- Group from Dusseldorf, Germany
- Group from Cologne, Germany
- Young people from Germany
- Young people from Austria
- Group of young people from Bonn and Cologne
- Members of United Jewish Appeal from Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
- Group from Great Britain
- Young people from Berlin
- Young people from Great Britain
- Members of the Rotary Club in Luneburg, Germany
- Group from Germany
- Group from Austria
- Group of Israelis living in London
- Group from Berlin
- Group of young people from Holland, Italy and Germany
- Group from Norway
- Group from Germany
- Group from Ruhr-Region
- Group from Thailand
- Group from Germany
- Group from the Hochschule Magdeburg
- Group from Bildungstatte Burg in Hochenberg, Germany
POLISH GROUPS OF VISITORS
- Students of the High School No. 6 in Cracow's Kazimierz
- High school students from Bydgoszcz
- Students of High School No. 27 in Cracow
- Students of High School No. 6 in Cracow's Kazimierz, with art professor
Jerzy Noworól, visiting Wanda Ladniewska exhibition
- Students of political science at Opole University
- Students of the Middle School No. 2 in Cracow
- High school students from Mikolów
- Disabled people from the Art Therapy Workshops in Cracow, visiting
Wieslaw Szuminski's exhibition with the artist
- Students from the Sociology Department at the Silesian University
STIFTUNG JUDAICA
Zentrum für Jüdische Kultur
in Kazimierz - Krakau
ul. Meiselsa 17, 31-058 Kraków
tel. (12) 430 64 49, 430 64 52
fax (12)430 64 97
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