The Center

Summer program

          

Postcards Auction organized by the RARA AVIS Antiquarian Bookstore. Information: www.raraavis.krakow.pl

FATHER STANISŁAW MUSIAŁ, SJ IN MEMORIAM
From Jesus to Shylock: Jews and the Christian Imagination - lecture by Prof. Susannah HESCHEL of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA, organized jointly with The Cardinal Suenens Center at John Carroll University, Cleveland and The Cardinal Bernardin Center at The Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. (in English with a simultaneous translation into Polish)

The Role of Jewish Women in Bequething Values - meeting with Bella SZWARCMAN-CZARNOTA, author of the book (among others) They Girded Their Loins with Might. Portraits of Jewish Women. (in Polish)

64th ANNIVERSARY OF THE KRAKOW GHETTO LIQUIDATION
MARCH OF MEMORY organized jointly with the Jewish Culture Festival Society, Historical Museum of the City of Krakow, - Pharmacy Under the Eagle Pharmacy, and Galicia Jewish Museum. The March will start at 12:00 noon at the Plac Bohaterów Getta in Krakow?s Podgórze and end at the memorial in the former KL Płaszów concentration camp.

Chamber music concert performed by Piotr MARCIAK (violin) and Tomasz WYROBA (cello). In the program, works by Handel-Halvorsen, M. Ravel and Z. Kodaly.

The Hebrew Bible in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context - lecture by Prof. Mervyn E. J. RICHARDSON of the Leiden University, Holland. Lecture in English.

ANNIVERSARY OF MARCH '68 EVENTS IN POLAND
The Train to Vienna - screening of the documentary film by Marek Drążewski (in Polish, 1998, 30 min.)
Seven Jews from my School Class - screening of the documentary film by Marcel Łoziński (in Polish, 1991, 40 min.).

GREAT CHALLENGES OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
Human Nature and Religion - lecture by Prof. Jan WOLEŃSKI, Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University (in Polish)

International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim - 20 Years of Experience - meeting with dr. Alicja BARTUŚ, Leszek SZUSTER, Hartmut ZIESING, and Joanna DYDUCH.

Beyond Esther: a Progressive Rabbi's Perspective on Women in Judaism - meeting with Rabbi Burt SCHUMAN of the Beit Warszawa (in English)

1st International Biennale of the Socio - Political Poster. - opening of the exhibition.

Georg Elser - The One from Germany - lecture by Manfred MAIER on the Georg Elser attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler in 939. (in German)

Georg Elser - The One from Germany - screening of the documentary film by Klaus Maria Brandauer. (in German, 90 min.)
Lecture and film screening organized jointly with the German Consulate General in Krakow.