Book discussion “Towarzysz Nachman” with: Karolina Szymaniak, Krzysztof Modelski and Natalia Moskal
Bookstore at Tłomackie, Jewish Historical Institute, 3/5 Tłomackie St.
Free admission
Supporting event organized by the Jewish Historical Institute
Lecture about Jewish art: “Gold, silver, copper” | Monika Krajewska
 | Monika Krajewska has been focusing on the Jewish art for more than 30 years. She is the author of albums with photographs picturing Jewish cemeteries: “Time of Stones” and “A Tribe of Stones.” She runs Jewish art workshops and creates art works inspired by the traditional Jewish paper cutting. |
Austrian Cultural Forum, 7/9 Próżna St.
Free entry; seats are not numbered
Lecture: “Polish Vodka during Jewish holidays” | Andrzej Szumowski
Does Jewish tradition leave any space for vodka drinking at all? Or maybe vodka is drunk only by Polish Jews? The answer is not so simple – hence, the lecture, during which we will not only hear answers to the aforementioned questions but will familiarize with many historic and cultural facts associated with Polish vodka.
The subject will be presented by Andrzej Szumowski – president of Polish Vodka Association, chairman of the Main Board of the Employers Association “Polish Spirit Industry.” As of 2003, he has been appointed the vice-president of the Management Board of Wyborowa S.A., currently, he is also the spokesperson of the Company and the External Affairs Director. His 25-year long professional career started in the Ministry of Economic Cooperation with Abroad, he was also the undersecretary in the Office of European Integration and the advisor to the Head of the Chancellory Office of the President of Poland. A graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw and postgraduate public relations studies in the Warsaw School of Economics.
3/4 Koneser Bar in the Polish Vodka Museum, VIP zone, 4th floor, Praga Koneser Center, 1 Konesera Square
Free admission, a limited number of seats (first comes first in)
Supporting event organized by Polska Wódka Association/ Polish Vodka Museum
A lecture about Holocaust in Białostocki Region | Helena Datner
The Jewish History Institute, 3/5 Tłomackie (the space on the ground floor of the Blue Tower)
Free admission
Supporting event organized by the Jewish Historical Institute
10.00-16.00
Academic session in the Yiddish Cultural Center: “Culture and politics. The 70th anniversary of the death/murder of the members of the Jewish Antifascist Committee in the SSSR” – under the academic supervision of Karolina Szymaniak, PhD
PROGRAM:
10.00 Session’s opening:
10:15 Inaugurating lecture
Professor Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov (IH PAN): “Did the Jewish issue exist in the Soviet Union? A short course on the history of Jews in the SSSR”
Discussion
11:15 Break
From the women’s perspective:
11:30 Professor Joanna Degler (Lisek) (University of Wrocław): “Chana Lewin – a poet, soldier, feminist. Why did Stalin forget about her?”
11:50 Karolina Szymaniak: „Szyra Gorszman as a reporter”
12:10 Anna Rozenfeld (LMU München): “Ida Kamińska – refugee experience” [on-line]
Discussion
12:45 PM-14:00 Break
War, camp, literature:
14:00 Professor Magdalena Ruta (Jagiellonian University): “Jewish poets of gulag”
14:20 Philip Schwartz |DE| (IH PAN): “Death, survival, resurrection. Polish-Soviet relations from the perspective of Yiddish literature in the 1940s and 1950s ” [online]
Discussion
14:40-15:00 Break
Between literature and music:
15:00 Bella Szwarcman-Czarnota: “Legal address of Szmuel Halkin. Icyk Manger and Lew Ozierow about the poet’s life”
15:20 Maria Sławek (Mieczysław Wajnberg Institute): “I once had
a home – I have it no more. By Szmuel Halkin and the series Jidisze lider op. 17th by Mieczysław Wajnberg”
Discussion
Yiddish Cultural Center, 15 Andersa St.
Entry upon confirmation, registration available until 20 August at:cjk@jidysz.org.pl; a limited number of seats
This event will also be broadcast online – for details, please visit: www.festiwalsingera.pl
A lecture about Jewish refugees who fled to England | Anna Rosner
The Jewish History Institute, 3/5 Tłomackie St. (the space on the ground floor of the Blue Tower)
Free admission
Supporting event organized by the Jewish Historical Institute
A lecture presented by the representative of Jüdisches Museum Hohenems accompanying the exhibition “Hide-outs. The architecture of survival / Case study Będzin”
The lecture will be in German and translated into Polish
Austrian Cultural Forum, 7/9 Próżna St.
Free admission
This event will be broadcast online by the Austrian Cultural Forum and Singer’s Warsaw Festival on their Facebook pages
Supporting event organized by the Austrian Cultural Center
Jewish Literary Salon: “Fighting the plague with words and songs” – lecture by Bella Szwarcman-Czarnota
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photo Janusz Paliwoda
Austrian Cultural Forum, 7/9 Próżna St.
Entry upon confirmation available since 3 August at: warschau-kf@bmeia.gv.at; seats are not numbered
This event will be broadcast online by the Austrian Cultural Forum and Singer’s Warsaw Festival on their Facebook pages
The Jewish Culture Fan Club “From The Tree of Life to the history of love – introduction to the translation of the novel written by Chava Rosenfarb into Polish” – lecture by Professor Joanna Degler (Lisek)
Yiddish Cultural Center, 15 Andersa St.
To register, until 20 August, please write to: ckj@jidysz.org.pl, number of seats is limited
This event will also be broadcast online – for details, please visit: www.festiwalsingera.pl
Lecture given by Andrzej Szumowski: “Vodka in the history and traditions of the Jewish community”
KOTŁOWNIA in the Polish Vodka Museum, Praga Koneser Center, 1 Konesera Square
Free admission, a limited number of seats – maximum 20 people (first come first in)
Supporting event organized by Polska Wódka Association/ Polish Vodka Museum
