The Center

Summer program

          

Graduate concert performed by students of the Bronisław Rutkowski Music School in Krakow.

Stories about March '68 and not only - meeting with Leo KANTOR, a March?68 émigré from Sweden. After the events of March '68 he was fired from the post of lecturer at the Pedagogical University in Opole and forced to emigrate. Today, he is a lecturer at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences of University of Stockholm and Director of the International Festival of Documentary Films "Man in the World."

LITERARY PROGRAM I Was Looking at their Lips? The Diary of Warsaw Ghetto - promotion of the book released by Homini Publishing House in Krakow and the National Museum at Majdanek, with the participation of Dr. Krzysztof Bielawski, Dr. Jacek Leociak, and Dr. Piotr Weiser. We know very little about the author of the shocking diary written in Warsaw Ghetto and found at Majdanek. Her name was Maryla and she probably perished at the pacification of the Ghetto Uprising or in the camp soon afterwards. Out of notebooks filled by her, only one survived intact, which deals with the last days of March and April of 1943. The journal ends when people crowded in bunkers await the end, listening to the dying sounds of the battle.

Jewish Community Centre, JCC - dreams, aims and goals. Meeting with Jonathan ORNSTEIN, Director of the recently opened Jewish Community Centre in Kazimierz, Krakow.

Irena Sendlerowa in Memoriam (1910-2008) - film screenings: "Sendlerowa's List" directed by Michał DUDZIEWICZ (45 min.) and "The Teaspoon" directed by Michał NEKANDA-TREPKA (13 min.)

LITERARY PROGRAM Abraham Joshua Heschel - God Seeking Man - Philosophy of Judaism, promotion of the first Polish translation released by Esprit Publishing House in Krakow. A.J. Heschel is recognized as one of the greatest Jewish theologians of the 20th century and "Philosophy of Judaism" is considered one of the best theological books of that period. The author examines religion through difficult questions, both these posed by contemporary secular science and those born in the hearts in view of the evil existing in the world, and the atrocities of the past century in particular.

The tasks of East European and Russian Jewish History - meeting with Prof. Steven ZIPPERSTEIN (Stanford University, the lecture in English).

18th Jewish Culture Festival. Detailed program of the Festival as well as information about ticket sales are available on the Organizer's web-site at www.jewishfestival.pl