The Center

Summer program

          

Po-Lan-Yah
Part III: Hard Yimes and Part IV: God is Everywhere - film showing
(100 min., in Polish)

Chamber music concert performed by the REINER TRIO: Roman REINER (violin), Barbara ŁYPIK-SOBANIEC (cello) and Sławomir CIERPIK (piano). In the program, works by Max Bruch and traditional Jewish melodies.

Po-Lan-Yah
Part V: Love Poland as a Pole and Part VI: New Jews - film showing
(100 min., in Polish)

Five Years After Jedwabne - meeting (conducted in Polish) with Anna BIKONT, author of the book My z Jedwabnego ("We from Jedwabne"), moderated by Prof. Jacek BOMBA.

Concert of Jewish music performed by the SHUL BAND (New York): Adam FEDER (music director, guitar, voice), Ernesto VILLA-LOBOS (violin), Seth GINSBERG (mandolin, voice), Adam SEIDMAN (piano, voice), Lilly LAVNER (voice), Matt SNYDER (clarinet) and Dave HERTZBERG (bass).

Jerzy Lipman, Born Filmmaker - meeting (conducted in Polish) with Andrzej WAJDA and Prof. Tadeusz LUBELSKI, and presentation of a book about Jerzy Lipman.
Organized jointly with the Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe publishing house.

Restitution of Jewish Property in Poland. The State of Affairs After 10 Years - meeting (conducted in Polish) with Monika KRAWCZYK, CEO of the Foundation for Preservation of the Jewish Heritage in Poland.

The Jews in Cracow. A 700 -Year History - presentation of the book by Prof. Michał ROŻEK and Henryk HALKOWSKI, published by the Judaica Foundation as part of the Aleksander and Alicja Hertz Annual Memorial Lecture series.

THE ALEKSANDER AND ALICJA HERTZ ANNUAL MEMORIAL LECTURE Because He Admitted Being a Jew - lecture (in Polish) by Prof. Jan WOLEŃSKI.

Po-Lan-Yah
Part VII: Between the World Wars - film showing
(50 min., in Polish)

12th ANNIVERSARY OF THE OPENING OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE
I Am the Jew from Wyspianski's Wedding - theater performance by Jan NOWAK, Tadeusz MALAK and Lesław LIC, directed by Tadeusz MALAK.
This theater performance is dedicated to the memory of Rafael F. Scharf.

Concert performed by the KROKE ensemble: Tomasz KUKURBA (violin, viola), Jerzy BAWÓ , (accordion) and Tomasz LATO (double bass).

FORUM-KAZIMIERZ
The Kazimierz of My Dreams - panel discussion (in Polish) with Henryk HALKOWSKI, Tadeusz JAKUBOWICZ (President of the Jewish Religious Congregation in Cracow), Dr. Bogusław KRASNOWOLSKI, Janusz MAKUCH (Director of the Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow), Dr. Monika MURZYN (International Cultural Centre in Cracow), Wojciech ORNAT, and Dr. Stanisław POCHWAŁA (Director of the Municipal Civil Engineering Museum in Cracow).
Organized within the framework of the European Project "Monument Nomination and Pilot Implementation as an Alternative Form of Architecture and Religious Tourism".

Judaism as a Fate. About Bogdan Wojdowski - meeting (in Polish) with writer Alina MOLISAK, moderated by Michał SOBELMAN.