JUDAICA FOUNDATION
CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE
in Kazimierz, Cracow


JUDAICA FOUNDATION
CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE
in Kazimierz, Cracow

PROGRAM REPORT 2000

Between January 1st and December 31st, 2000, 364 events took place at the Center for Jewish Culture in Kazimierz, Cracow. Among them were 186 program events (lectures, concerts, exhibitions, film showings, book presentations, conferences, seminars and discussions), 74 VIP-visits, 83 school and tourist group visits, as well as 21 commercial events.

On May 13th, the two thousandth event took place at the Center for Jewish Culture. It was a presentation of the second edition of the Rafael F. Scharf's book "Poland, What Have I To Do With Thee… Essays Without Prejudice…" and concert of the Jewish music by Lepold Kozlowski, Jacek Cygan, Renata Swierczynska, Katarzyna Zielinska and Andrzej Róg.

Between August 2nd and August 15th, 2000, the second edition of the German-language version of the Summer Program Retracing Jewish Heritage in Galicia was organized by the Judaica Foundation - Center for Jewish Culture.

In December 2000, the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw organized at the Center for Jewish Culture the ceremony of conferring the medals Righteous Among the Nations to the Poles, who helped to rescue Jews during the WWII.

LECTURES

1/ Meeting with Dr. Edwin OPOCZYNSKI, an Auschwitz - Birkenau survivor, on the occasion of the anniversary of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau liberation

2/ 6804 - Personal Story by August KOWALCZYK, an Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor - a presentation by August Kowalczyk, on the occasion of the anniversary of KL Auschwitz - Birkenau liberation

3/ Prof. Jan WOLENSKI, Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University, Jews in Polish Philosophy as a part of the series of lectures The Jewish Philosophy

4/ Father Stanislaw MUSIAL SJ, The Ritual Murder - Eight Hundred Years of the Lie Against Jews, as a part of a series of lectures Encounters of Christianity with Judaism

5/ Adolf JUZWENKO, How To Overcome Historical Prejudice, as a part of a program Everyday Minorities

6/ Prof. Irena BOROWIK, Orthodoxy and the Ukrainian Identity, as a part of a program Everyday Minorities

7/ Prof. Bazyli NAZARUK, Ukrainian Poets in Nowadays Poland, as a part of a program Everyday Minorities

8/ Meeting with Budy ELIAS (Holland), Ann Frank's cousin

9/ Meeting with Janina OCHOJSKA, Director of the Polish Humanitarian Organization as a part of a series of lectures Democracy and Tolerance

10/ Prof. Jerzy POMIANOWSKI, The Secret of the March 1968, a lecture on the occasion of the anniversary of the March 1968 events

11/ Prof. Tadeusz GADACZ, Judaism and Christianity in the Rosenzweig's Writings as a part of a series of lectures The Jewish Philosophy

12/ Rev. Prof. Stanislaw OBIREK SJ, The Stockholm Conference on Holocaust and Its Impact, as a part of a series of lectures Democracy and Tolerance

13/ Prof. Andrzej FLIS, Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University, Christian Communities in the Middle East

14/ Antoni KROH, Relationships Between National Minorities in Slovakia in the 20th Century as a part of the program Everyday Minorities

15/ Ludomir MOLITORIS, The Slovaks in Poland Viewed from the Slovak Perspective as a part of a program Everyday Minorities

16/ Prof. Jerzy JEDLICKI, The Freedom of Expression? as a part of a series of lectures Democracy and Tolerance

17/ Jerzy Slawomir MAC, WPROST weekly, The Network of Hatred: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Holocaust Denial in the Internet as a part of a series of lectures Democracy and Tolerance

18/ Rev. Prof. Adam ZAK SJ, Buber And Rosenzweig - Their Philosophical Comments On The Bible as a part of a series of lectures The Jewish Philosophy

19/ Meeting with Rabbi Sacha PECARIC on the occasion of the Shavuot holiday and the presentation of the book Tarjag micwot published by the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation

20/ Rev. Stanislaw MUSIAL SJ, Few Remarks On the Pope's Visit to the Holy Land as a part of a series of lectures Encounters of Christianity With Judaism

21/ Rev. Petra HELD, The Jewish-Christian Dialogue in Israel From the Shoah Until the Visit of the Pope John Paul II.

22) Prof. Tomasz GASOWSKI, Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University, Marshall Józef Pilsudski Vice Versa the Jews, the Jewish Issues and Anti- Semitism in Poland in the Interwar Period.

23/ Prof. Andrzej RYCHARD, Who Needs the Civil Society in Poland, as a part of a series of lectures Democracy and Tolerance

24/ Rev. Stanislaw MUSIAL SJ, A Great Confession of the Church, as a part of a series of lectures Encounters of Christianity with Judaism

25/ Prof. Tadeusz ZIELINSKI, former Ombudsman, Discussions About Tolerance, as a part of a series of lectures Democracy and Tolerance

26/ Tomasz POLKOWSKI, President of the Society Our House, What Would Have Done Doctor Korczak? Consequences of the Reforms of the System of the Aid for Children and Families, as a part of a series lectures Democracy and Tolerance

27/ Meeting with Rabbi Sacha PECARIC on the occasion of Hanukkah holiday

28/ Abraham BRUMBERG (USA), BUND - Historical Achievements of the Murdered Party, as a part of the BAYIT HADASH Program

29/ Michal SOBELMAN, Press Secretary of the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw, Israel and the Holocaust, as a part of the BAYIT HADASH Program.

30/ Marian TURSKI, journalist, POLITYKA weekly, For Whom Did Szmul Zygielbojm Sacrifice His Life? as a part the BAYIT HADASH Program

31/ Meeting with Alex DANZIG (Israel), A Man from the Nir-Oz Kibbutz, combined with a film presentation about A. Danzig, as a part of the BAYIT HADASH Program

32/ Prof. Israel GUTMAN, Yad Vashem Institute, Jeruslem, Reflections on the Polish - Jewish Relations in the Interwar Period, as a part of the BAYIT HADASH Program

33/ Antoni MARIANOWICZ, Does the Occupation Still Last? - On the Dark Side of Jewish-Polish Relations, as a part of the BAYIT HADASH Program

34/ Meeting with Nedo FIANO (Italy), former prisoner of the KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, with the participation of Marcello PEZZETTI from the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milano, Roberto FAENZA, a film director, Elda FERRI, a film producer and Rudi ASSUNTINO, organized jointly with the Italian Cultural Institute in Cracow as part of the series Encounters with the Italian-Jewish Culture - Incontri con la Cultura Ebraica.

CONFERENCES, SEMINARS

1/ The Polish Church And Battling Anti-Semitism: An Exchange of American and Polish Experiences - international seminar organized by the Judaica Foundation and the Cardinal Bernardin Center, Chicago with participation of Martin BRESLER (American Jewish Committee, New York), Rev. Prof. Michal CZAJKOWSKI ( Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw), Konstanty GEBERT (Editor-in-Chief, Midrasz Monthly), Prof. Andrzej KORBONSKI (University of California, Los Angeles), Rev. Stanislaw MUSIAL SJ (Center for Culture and Dialog, Cracow), Rev. Prof. Stanislaw OBIREK SJ (Center for Culture and Dialog, Cracow), Prof. Bohdan OPPENHEIM (Loyola Marymont University, Los Angeles) and Rev. Prof. John PAWLIKOWSKI (Catholic Theological Union, Chicago)

2/ Perspectives for Kazimierz - What About the Gentrification? - a conference organized by the Kazimierz Local Citizens' Office

3/ The Common Fears - a conference organized by the French Cultural Institute in Cracow

4/ Freedom at the Door to the Third Millennium - Chances and Threats - a conference organized by the Center for Political Education in Cracow

5/ Promoting Tolerance in Central and Eastern Europe - a conference for independent journalists form Central and Eastern Europe organized by the American Jewish Committee and Friedrich F. Naumann Foundation in Warsaw

6/ Jewish Identity in Poland and in Germany, a conference with the participation of Prof. Michael WOLFSSOHN (Bundeswehr University, Munich), Marian TURSKI (journalist, Polityka weekly) and Adam KRZEMINSKI (journalist, Polityka weekly), organized jointly with the Goethe Institute in Cracow, as a part of the BAYIT HADASH Program.

BOOK AND POETRY PRESENTATIONS

1/ Readings of poetry by Stanislaw WYGODZKI, with participation of Stanislaw TACZANOWSKI, Wygodzki's friend, Ryszard REISNER, Wygodzki's translator and Jan GÜNTNER, an actor

2/ Meeting with Janina KATZ (Denmark), an author of Pucka and Merry Jewess. The meeting moderated by Boguslawa SOCHANSKA, Director of the Danish Cultural Institute in Poland

3/ Presentation of the book Belzec by Rudol Reder, the bilingual (English-Polish) edition published by the Judaica Foundation - the only oral testimony about the death camp in Belzec, given by R. Reder in 1945

4/ The Spirit Is More Important Than the Blood - discussion on the Memoires by Victor KLEMPERER, with participation of Dr. Andrzej NOWAKOWSKI, Director of the UNIVERSITAS Publishing House and Adam KRZEMINSKI, POLITYKA weekly

6/ Aleksander SZUMANSKI, Cracow Poet, Reads His Lyrics, an event with participation of Barbara BRZEZINSKA and Jan GÜNTNER

7/ Presentation of the book The Gates to the Heaven. Stone Synagogues in Poland by Maria and Kazimierz PIECHOTKA

8/ Presentation of the book Still In the Same Circle. Interviews With the Fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto by Anka GRUPINSKA, with participation of Anka GRUPINSKA, Pawel SZAPIRO (Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw), moderated by Adam SZOSTKIEWICZ, POLITYKA weekly

9/ Presentation of the book Matzevas' Inscriptions In the Old Jewish Cemetery In Cracow by Dr. Leszek HONDO, Jagiellonian University

10/ Meeting with Anna FRAJLICH (USA) on the occasion of publishing her new collection of poems In the November's Sun. Moderated by Wojciech LIGEZA.

11/ Presentation of the book The legend of Esther in the Polish and Yiddish Literature by Prof. Chone SHMERUK, with participation of Krystyna SCHMERUK (Heritage Foundation, publisher of the book) and Dr. Eugenia PROKOP-JANIEC (Jagiellonian University)

12/ Presentation of the album Paintings and Sculptures of the Polish Jews by Prof. Jerzy MALINOWSKI, as part of the BAYIT HADASH Program

13/ Presentation of the book The Jewish Bard. The Story of Mordechaj Gebirtig's Life and Poetry by Natan GROSS, with the participation of Rafael F. SCHARF (London), Dr. Eugenia PROKOP-JANIEC (Jagiellonian University) and Dr. Józef WRÓBEL (Jagiellonian University)

14/ Evening of poetry by Aleksander SZUMANSKI, organized by the Cracow Branch of the Society for Protecting Majdanek

15/ Tomasz KORZENIOWSKI, translator, Presentation of Poems by Israeli Poet Jehuda Amichaj

EXHIBITIONS

1/ Written in the Memory, photographs by Jeffrey WOLIN (USA)

2/ The Silence Upon Lutowiska, photographs by Artur RYCHLICKI (Kraków)

3/ The German Invasion on Poland, 1939-1945 - an exhibition organized by the International Youth Meeting Center in Oswiecim and Anti-War Musem - Library of the Peace in Berlin

4/ Sculptures by Hanna OREN-HUPPERT (Holland)

5/ Exhibition of book-design by students and professors of the Fine Art Academy in Cracow

6/ Icchak Rabin - photo exhibition organized by the Israeli Embassy in Poland

7/ Water-colors by Aviva BLUM (Israel)

8/ Alef - graphic art by Shalom SECHVI (Israel)

9/ Cracow in Prague - Prague in Cracow - exhibition of the photographs by students of the FAMU Film School in Prague as a part of the Cracow 2000 Festival

10/ Where Time Stopped - Eternal Jerusalem - photographic exhibition by Erwin SCHENKELBACH (Israel) as a part of the 10th Jewish Culture Festival

11/ Gehat hob ich a hejm... Cracow's Kazimierz in the Time of Mordechaj Gebirtig- exhibition organized by the Judaica Foundation in the International Youth Meeting Center in Oswiecim

12/ Exhibitions of graphic art by Wojciech MULLER, Professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan

13/ Synagogues and Cemeteries - paintings by Shirley MOSKOWITZ (USA)

14/ Anatomy of the Labyrinth - collage and graphic art by Agnieszka NOWINSKA

15/ My Tadeusz Kantor - photographs by Jacek STOKLOSA (Cracow) as a part of the Tadeusz Kantor Festiwal - Cracow 2000

16/ Gehat hob ich a hejm... Cracow's Kazimierz in the Time of Mordechaj Gebirtig, a photo exhibition, presenting archival photographs from 20-ties and 30-ties, as a part of the Bayit Hadash Program

17/ S'brennt! - computer designed graphics by Justyna CHWASTEK (Cracow), inspired by poems by Mordechaj Gebirtig - as a part of the BAYIT HADASH Program

18/ The Moment - photographs by Tove KURZWEIL (Denmark), organized jointly with the Danish Cultural Institute in Poznan

CONCERTS

1/ Chamber music concert performed by Klaudia ROMEK (soprano), Jacek OZIMKOWSKI (bas), Marek WIATR (tenor) and Barbara PENDERECKA (piano), organized jointly with the Italian Cultural Institute in Cracow

2/ Concert performed by Michal NAGY (guitar) and Arkadiusz KRUPA (oboe) as a part of a series of Guitar Concerts at the Center for Jewish Culture

3/ Concert performed by the students of the Public Music School in Cracow on the occasion of the Grandmother's Day

4/ Guitar concert performed by Lorenzo MICHELI (Italy), organized jointly with the Italian Cultural Institute in Cracow

5/ Chamber music concert performed by Elzbieta TOWARNICKA (soprano) and Janina WERNER (piano), organized jointly with the Italian Cultural Institute in Cracow

6/ Guitar music concert performed by Josep HENRIQUEZ (Spain) organized jointly with the Cervantes Institute in Warsaw

7/ Piano concert performed by Andrea SECCHI (Italy), organized jointly with the Italian Cultural Institute in Cracow

8/ Guitar concert performed by Piotr TOMASZEWSKI (Warsaw) as a part of the series of Guitar Concerts at the Center for Jewish Culture

9/ Jewish music concert performed by THE LIVNAT BROTHERS (Israel), organized jointly with the Polish-Israeli Friendship Society in Warsaw

10/ Guitar concert performed by Adam ZALAS (Vienna), as a part of a series of Guitar Concerts at the Center for Jewish Culture

11/ Concert performed by the youth orchestra CONCERTO LAMELLI (Cracow)

12/ Concert performed by Marcin WOLAK (baritone) and Janina WERNER (piano)

13/ Ararat Mountain - concert of Jewish music performed by the JASCHA LIEBERMAN TRIO (Cracow)

14/ Guitar concert performed by David QUALEY (USA) as a part of a series of Guitar Concerts at the Center for Jewish Culture

15/ Chamber music concert performed by the COPENHAGEN CHAMBER ENSEMBLE (Denmark) organized with the Danish Cultural Institute in Poznan

16/ My Own Personal Music - concert of music composed and performed by Janusz GRZYWACZ, with participation of Katarzyna STEPNIOWSKA, Lucja CZARNECKA, Joszko BRODA and Leszek SZCZERBA

17/ Chamber music concert performed by Pawel PAWLIKOWSKI (viola) and Joanna KWINTA-SLAZYK (cemballo)

18/ Guitar concert performed by Augustin MARURI (Spain), organized jointly with the Cervantes Institute in Warsaw

19/ Concert performed by Marcin SIATKOWSKI (Warsaw) as a part of a series of Guitar Concerts at the Center for Jewish Culture

20/ Chamber music concert performed by Emanuele SEGRE (Italy), organized jointly with the Italian Cultural Institute in Cracow

21/ Jazz concert performed by Brad TERRY (clarinet, whistle) and Joachim MENCEL (piano)

22/ Chamber music concert performed by DUO PEPICELLI (Italy), organized jointly with the Italian Cultural Institute in Cracow

23/ Concert performed by students of the Public Music School in Cracow on the occasion of the Children's Day

24/ Concert performed by Dagmara SIUTY (soprano), Anna IR (mezzosoprano) Dorota BOCZKOWSKA (alt) and Anna GLOWA (piano)

25/ Millenovecentovoci - music performance by Daria DEFLORIAN (Italy) and Prof. Józef OPALSKI (Cracow), organized jointly with the Italian Cultural Institute in Cracow

26/ Concert performed by the youth orchestra CONCERTO LAMELLI (Cracow).

27/ Concert of Jewish music performed by the JASCHA LIEBERMAN TRIO (Cracow) as a part of the Cracow Composers Festival

28/ Piano recital performed by Leon HILFSTEIN (USA)

29/ Concert by the JAROSLAW SMIETANA TRIO as a part of the series of Guitar Concerts at the Center for Jewish Culture

30/ Modern-Etno - concert performed by Mariusz KOLUCH (voice), Anna SLIWA (violin/viola), Joanna STRÓZ (drums) and Krzysztof SZWAJGIER (voice)

31/ Concert performed by guitar duo Krzysztof PELECH - Jarema KLICH, as a part of the series of Guitar Concerts at the Center for Jewish Culture

32/ Concert performed by the youth orchestra CONCERTO LAMELLI (Cracow)

33/ Chamber music concert performed by the AMAR CORDE QUARTET (Cracow): Barbara STUHR (violin), Boguslawa ZIEGELHEIM (violin), Beata PLOSKA (viola) and Agata ZAJAC (cello) as a part of the Festival Music in Europe 2000

34/ Saxophone concert by Claude DELANGLE (France) as a part of the International Clarinet Festival in Cracow

35/ Guitar Concert by Alex GARROBE (Spain), organized jointly with the Cervantes Institute in Warsaw

36/ Clarinet concert by Philippe CUPER (France) as a part of the International Clarinet Festival in Cracow

37/ Chamber music concert performed by the Pecs Orchestra from Hungary

38/ Guitar concert performed by Rafel SERRALET (Spain) organized jointly with the Cervantes Institute in Warsaw

39/ Klezmer music concert performed by the KROKE trio (Cracow) on the occasion of the 7th anniversary of the opening of the Center for Jewish Culture

40/ Classical Spain, Romantic Spain - a concert performed by Malgorzata HENNIG (soprano) and Krzysztof CYRAN (guitar) as a part of the series of Guitar Concerts

41/ Chamber music concert performed by the REINER TRIO (Cracow)

42/ Guitar concert performed by Filomena MORETTI (Italy), organized jointly with the Italian Cultural Centre in Cracow.

43/ Concert of the Jewish music performed by the JASCHA LIEBERMAN TRIO

44/ Concert of the Jewish music performed by the JASCHA LIEBERMAN TRIO in the Castle in Przemysl, as a part of the Festival Musical Autumn in Przemysl

45/ Concert performed by Manfred LEMM (Germany), organized by the Rev. Siemaszko Foundation in Cracow

46/ Concert of the Jewish music performed by the REINER TRIO (Cracow) as a part of the BAYIT HADASH Program

47/ Concert of songs and poetry in Yiddish performed by Abraham BRUMBERG (USA), as a part of the BAYIT HADASH Program

48/ Guitar concert performed by Michal NAGY and Marcin SIATKOWSKI, as a part of the BAYIT HADASH Program

49/ Remembrance of Kazimierz - concert of the Jewish music performed by the JASCHA LIEBERMAN TRIO, as part of BAYIT HADASH Program

50/ Concert of songs by Mordechaj Gebirtig performed by Tova BEN-ZVI (Israel), as a part of the BAYIT HADASH Program

51/ Chamber music concert dedicated to Rachel KNOBLER (Jewish composer born in Cracow, now living in Munich, Germany), performed by Boguslawa HUBISZ- SIELSKA, Mariusz SIELSKI and Agnieszka MONASTERSKA, as a part of the BAYIT HADASH Program.

52/ Dray Techterlekh - musical performance dedicated to Mordechaj Gebirtig, performed by the SHIR-AM Trio (Italy), directed by Rudi ASSUNTINO, as a part of the BAYIT HADASH Program

53/ Concert of a string quartet SOLISTI DI PERUGIA (Italy), as a part of the BAYIT HADASH Program

54/ New Year's Eve concert performed by the youth orchestra CONCERTO LAMELLI

55/ Concert performed by the String Quartet of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra

THEATER PERFORMANCES

1/ Dibbuk, performed by the German, Ukrainian and Polish youth, directed by Peter KRÜGER (Germany)

2/ Dibbuk, based on the play by An-ski, directed by Zofia KALINSKA, performed by the Academy of Theater in Remscheid (Germany)

FILM SHOWINGS

1/ Auschwitz: History - Present - Future (in English) and Eyes from the Ashes - showings of documentaries on the occasion of the anniversary of the KL Auschwitz - Birkenau liberation

2/ The Last Stage by Wanda JAKUBOWSKA on the occasion of the anniversary of the KL Auschwitz - Birkenau liberation

3/ Auschwitz: History - Present - Future (in Polish) on the occasion of the anniversary of the KL Auschwitz - Birkenau liberation

4/ So Far, So Close by Tadeusz KONWICKI as a part of a series of film showings Jewish Motifs in the Polish Cinematography with introduction by Prof. Tadeusz LUBELSKI (Film Institute of the Jagiellonian University)

5/ Indeks by Janusz KIJOWSKI as a part of a series of film showings Jewish Motifs in the Polish Cinematography with introduction by Prof. Tadeusz LUBELSKI (Film Institute of the Jagiellonian University)

6/ The Border Street by Aleksander FORD as a part of a series of film showings Jewish Motifs in the Polish Cinematography with introduction by Prof. Tadeusz LUBELSKI (Film Institute of the Jagiellonian University)

7/ The White Bear by Jerzy ZARZYCKI as a part of a series of film showings Jewish Motifs in the Polish Cinematography with introduction by Prof. Tadeusz LUBELSKI (Film Institute of the Jagiellonian University)

8/ The Sand-Glass, by Wojciech Jerzy HAS, as a part of series of film showings Jewish Motifs in the Polish Cinematography with an introduction by Prof. Tadeusz LUBELSKI (Film Institute of the Jagiellonian University)

9/ Return of Odysseus,
Only that exists, what can be seen,
by Andrzej SAPIJA, film showings in the framework of the Tadeusz Kantor Festival organized by the Cracow Festival 2000

10/ Rehearsals, Only Rehearsals….. by Andrzej SAPIJA, film showings in the framework of the Tadeusz Kantor Festival, organized by the Cracow Festival 2000

11/ History of Art According to Jacek Malczewski,
The Last Supper in Wieleopole,
The Dressing-Room of Tadeusz Kantor: Characters of the CRICOT2 Theater,
About the Consciousness of an Artist,
film showings in the framework of the Tadeusz Kantor Festival organized by the Cracow Festival 2000

12/ My Own History of Art - Lecture by Wojtkiewicz,
The Master - Portrait of Tadeusz Kantor during the Rehearsals to 'Let the Artists Die Like Dogs',
On the Condition of an Artist,
film showings in the framework of the Tadeusz Kantor Festival, organized by the Cracow Fetival 2000

13/ The Long night by Janusz NASFETER, as part of a series of film showings Jewish Motifs in the Polish Cinematography, with an introduction by Bartosz KWIECINSKI from the Film Institute of the Jagiellonian University

14/ Jonah, Who Lived in a Whale, by Roberto FAENZA in the framework of BAYIT HADASH- Icontri co la Cultura Eberica

15/ La Tregua by Francesco ROSSI, in the framework of BAYIT HADASH - Incontri con la Cultura Eberica

16/ Garden Fizzi Continich by Vittorio de SICA, in the framework of BAYIT HADASH - Incontri con la Cultura Eberica

17/ L'amante perduto by Roberto FAENZA in the framework of BAYIT HADASH- Incontri con la Cultura Eberica

OTHER EVENTS

1/ Book auction organized by the Antiquarian Bookstore RARA AVIS

2/ Memorial ceremony on the occasion of the anniversary of the Cracow ghetto liquidation organized by the Society for Protection Majdanek

3/ Post cards auction organized by the Antiquarian Bookstore RARA AVIS

4/ Book auction organized by the Antiquarian Bookstore RARA AVIS

5/ Workshops for the second generation of the Children of the Holocaust with Prof. Maria ORWID

6/ Post cards auction organized by the Antiquarian Bookstore RARA AVIS.

7/ Holocaust - Days of the Remembrance - memorial ceremony organized by the Society for Protection in Cracow

8/ Competition about the knowledge of the contemporary Israel organized by the High Classical School in Pultusk

9/ Meeting of members of the "Childrens' Letters to the World" Foundation

Above that, the Center for Jewish Culture has become a venue for regular meetings of:

- the Society Righteous Among the Nations (10 meetings),
- the Polish - Israeli Friendship Society (10 meetings)
- the Youth Society The Bridge (10 meetings).

VISITS

1. Group of Bundestag's members, Germany

2. Rabbi Walter Rotschild, Berlin

3. Dr. Roland Blatman, French Consul General in Cracow

4. Representatives of the Cultural Department of the German Embassy in Warsaw

5. Prof. Shaul Stampfer, Hebrew University in Jerusalem

6. Pastor Erik Gutheil, Counselor, Evangelical Church in Rhineland

7. Christian Drägert, Vice-President, Evangelical Church in Rhineland

8. Rafael F. Scharf, London, founding member of the Judaica Foundation

9. Teresa Ilardo -Triscari, Director, Italian Cultural Institute in Cracow

10. John Levine, New Zeland

11. Rabbi Sacha Pecaric, Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, Poland

12. Polish MP's, members of the Polish - Israeli Parliamentary Club

13. Angelika Krüger, Eckhardt Barthel, Gisela Schröter, Hanna Wolf - German MP's, members of the SPD

14. Eve Schänen, a journalist, New York Times Berlin

15. Nina Klein, a journalist, Die Welt

16. Jürgen Scholz, a journalist, Radio Wien

17. Dr. Joseph Gore, President, Kosciuszko Foundation, New York (twice)

18. Dr. Eryk Petry, Basil University

19. Garland Pol, Houston Diocese's Commission for Christian - Jewish Dialog, member of the Board of Directors of the Holocaust Museum in Houston, Texas

20. Jehuda Stein, Israel, born in Cracow, an author of the book Cracovian Jews

21. Mrs. Elisabeth Lee-Hölscher

22. Dr. Joachim Rogall, Robert Bosch Foundation, Germany

23. Prof. Stefan Schreiner, University of Tubingen

24. Benjamin Grynberg, USA

26. Maria Ostafin, Ann Arbor University, Michigan

27. Prof. Daniel Hartman, Ann Arbor University, Michigan

28. A delegation from Israel - guests of the Polish President

29. Dr. Ryszard Stemplowski, Director, Polish Institute for International Affairs (twice)

30. Martin Bresler, American Jewish Committee, New York

31. Rev. Prof. Michal Czajkowski, Cardinal Wyszynski University, Warsaw

32. Konstanty Gebert, Editor-in-Chief, MIDRASZ monthly

33. Prof. Andrzej Korbonski, University of California, Los Angeles

34. Rev. Stanislaw Musial SJ, Center for Culture and Dialogue, member of the Judaica Foundation's Board

35. Rev. Prof. Stanislaw Obirek SJ, Center for Culture and Dialogue

36. Prof. Bohdan Oppenheim, Loyola Marymont University, Los Angeles

37. Rev. Prof. John Pawlikowski, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago

38. Irene Pipes, President, American Society for Polish-Jewish Studies, Boston

39. Johanna Ross, American Society for Polish-Jewish Studies, Boston

40. Prof. Alfred Swierk, University of Erlangen, Germany

41. Piotr Jarosz, Director of the 4th department of BPH Bank in Cracow

42. Marlies Lami, Director of the Austrian Institute in Cracow

43. Prof. Jack Kugelmass, Arizona University

44. Prof. Marcin Kula, University of Warsaw

45. Prof. Aron Zlotnik, Israel

46. Beate Winkler, Director of the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia in Vienna

47. Journalists of the German TV-station ZDF

48. Prof. Shevah Weiss, Israel

49. Attilio Geroni, Italian journalist

50. Dieter Hoffman, a journalist from Germany

51. Piotr Halbersztat, Program Director of the Stefan Batory Foundation in Warsaw

52. Karolina Wolfzahn, journalist of L'Arche, France

53. German journalists - guests of the press office of the Cracow Festival 2000

54. Aldabert Reiff, Munich

55. MP's of the Bundestag, Germany

56. Group from the Evangelical Academy, Kassel

57. Professors of the University of Tübingen

58. Board of directors of the Helsinki Foundation 2000

59. Charles V. Raymond of the Citigroup Foundation, New York

60. Rembert Schleicher, former Austrian Consul in Cracow

61. Abraham Brumberg, USA

62. Michal Sobelman, Press Secretary of the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw

63. Marian Turski, a journalist, POLITYKA weekly

64. Alex Danzig, Israel

65. Members of the German Marshallplan Foundation

66. Prof. Israel Gutman , Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem

67. Prof. Abraham Cykiert, Australia

68. Members of the Robert Bosh Foundation

69. Admiel Kosma, a poet from Israel

70. Journalists form the Italian TV-station RAI TRE

71. Dr. Martin Sanders, radio journalist from Germany

72. Beth Eden Kite, First Secretary of the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw

FOREIGN GROUPS OF VISITORS

1. Group from Düsseldorf

2. Group of British architects

3. German teachers - members of the SPD

4. Students of the Jena University, Germany

5. Group from Innsbruck

6. American students of the Polonia Institute at the Jagiellonian University

7. Teachers from Italy

8. Guests of the Gymnasium No. 4 in Cracow

9. Journalists from France

10. Group form New York

11. Group from the USA

12. German students - participants in the seminar organized by the International Youth Meeting Center in Oswiecim

13. Group of lawyers from Berlin

14. History students of the University in Ostrava, Czech Republic

15. Jewish youngsters from the USA

16. Group from Berlin

17. Group form Germany

18. Students of the Gymnasium in Stockholm

19. Professors of the Tübingen University

20. Students of the Catholic Gymnasium in Trevir

21. Soldiers of the Bundeswehr

22. Group of volunteers from Dortmund

23. Group of architects from Germany

24. Students from Germany

25. Graduates of the Polish gymnasiums in Bucharest and Tel - Aviv from the time of the World War II

26. Group from Belgium

27. Group of guests of the Jagiellonian University from Great Britain and the USA

28. American students of the Jagiellonian University

29. Students of the Mainzer - Polonicum in Mainz, Germany

30. Students of the Gymnasium in London

31. Foreign investors in Poland - invited by The International Forum

32. Elder Hostel group form the USA

33. Students of Ostrava University, Czech Republic

34. Group from Montreal - participants in the March of the Living

35. Members of the Swedish Committee Against Anti-Semitism

36. Group of German MP's

37. Group of tourists from Belgium

38. Group from Austria - Guests of Mrs. Marlies Lami, Director of the Austrian Institute in Cracow

39. Group of tourists from Belgium

40. Journalists from Germany

41. Group from USA, on a trip organized by Mazurkas Travel

42. Group Elder Hostel

43. Group of journalists of the 'TIME magazine'

44. Group of teachers from Stuttgart

45. Group of German journalists - guests of the State Information Agency

46. Group of municipal officers from Ukraine - guests of the Foundation for a Socio- Economical Initiative

47. Religion teachers from Rhineland, Germany

48. Students of the Summer School of Polish Culture and Language

49. Members of the German-Polish society in Leipzig

50. Group of students from New York

51. Group from Switzerland

52. Group of students from Finland

53. Students of an adult evening school in Bonn, Germany

54. Religion teachers from Berlin and Düsseldorf

55. Israeli participants in a conference organized by the Forum for Dialogue Between the Nations

POLISH GROUPS OF VISITORS

1. Students of the Gymnasium in Tychy

2. Students of the Primary School No. 162 in Cracow

3. Students of the Jagiellonian University

4. Students of the Primary School No. 148 in Cracow

5. Students of the Teachers' College in Cracow

6. Students of the Sociology Department of the Jagiellonian University

7. Group of students from the International Youth Meeting Center in Oswiecim

8. Students from Pinczów

9. Participants in the art workshops in Kazimierz

10. Group of history students from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan

11. Students of the Fine Art Gymnasium in Cracow

12. Students of the Cultural Management Department of the Jagiellonian University

13. Students of the Private Gymnasium No. 6 in Cracow

14. Students of the Public Gymnasium No. 4 in Cracow

15. Students of the Jagiellonian University - members of the catholic society BROTHERHOOD at the St. Anna's Church in Cracow

16. Students of the gymnasium in Kamienna Góra

17. Members of the Cracow Management Club

18. Members of the Rotary Club in Cracow

19. Group of youth participating in the workshops dealing with national minorities

20. Members of the Polish Union of Jewish Students

21. Students of the Gymnasium in Fromberg

22. Students of the Business School in Kety

23. Students of the Gymnasium in Skarzysko-Kamienna

24. Teachers - participants in the conference "European Dimension of the Education"

25. Students of the Gymnasium in Szczecin

26. Students of the Gymnasium No. 2 in Katowice

27. Students of the Private Gymnasium in Cracow

28. Members of the Forum for Dialogue Between the Nations

COMMERCIAL EVENTS

1. Conference of the HESTIA Insurance Company in Cracow

2. Conference organized by DEXTER Travel Agency in Cracow

3. Training session for the staff of the PepsiCo company

4. Training session for the staff of the CENTERTEL Company

5. Financing the Renovation of the Historical Monuments From the Sources of the European Union - conference organized by the Cracow Polytechnic School

6. Training session for the AC Nielsen staff

7. Training for the staff of the British Petroleum Poland

8. Seminar organized by the Regional Office of the Social Policy

9. Training session organized by the Human Resources Management company.

10. Conference of the BWR Bank

11. Training of staff of the Bank Handlowy

12. Conference of the Incom company in Wroclaw

13. Conference of the DEXTER company

14. Conference of the Phoenix company

15. Conference organized by the Symposium Cracoviense

16. Promotional event organized by the First Tuesday company

JUDAICA FOUNDATION
CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE
in Kazimierz, Cracow
ul. Meiselsa 17, 31-058 Kraków

tel. (12) 430 64 49, 430 64 52
fax (12)430 64 97







JUDAICA FOUNDATION
CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE
in Kazimierz, Cracow
ul. Meiselsa 17, 31-058 Kraków
tel. (12) 430 64 49, 430 64 52

fax (12)430 64 97