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MUSICSYNAGOGUE

Cantors’ Concert

Sunday, June 24, 7:00 pmTempel Synagogue · ul. Miodowa 24

Those Who Trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion (Psalms 125:1)

In the Psalms it is said that “The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the other dwelling places of Jacob”. The word “Zion” appears in the Bible more than 150 times. It means both the city of David and the city of God. It is a place of encounter with a man’s individual life story and with its spiritual dimension. Zion also means

“the people of God”, in this sense we are all in-habitants of this dream land. This year’s concert opens the Gates of Zion.

The concert will star:Cantor Yaakov Lemmer (US) – in the opin-

ion of many, probably the most outstanding con-temporary cantor in the world with a unique timbre (lyrical tenor). His repertoire includes synagogue music, Hebrew and Yiddish songs, and even opera music and musicals.

Cantor Shulem Lemmer (US) – Yaakov’s brother, endowed with melodious timbre and unusual tone. He combines rare mastery of the vocal art of the chazzans with the tradition of Hasidic singing. In 2017, he released his debut album Shulem.

Cantor Shlomo Seletski (IL) – a powerful, dramatic tenor of the young generation, perform-ing in Israel, the United States and in Europe.

Yossi Schwartz (IL) – one of the most out-standing contemporary conductors of synagogue choirs, also an excellent cantor.

The Bells Vocal Ensamble (IL) – one of the two best synagogue choirs in the world conduct-ed by chazzan and maestro Yossi Schwartz.

Menachem Bristowski (IL) – piano virtu-oso, guest of the Israel Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Production: Yosi Notkowitz (IL)

Halleluyah Productions, cantors.co.il

Classics at Noon

Sunday, June 24, noonTempel Synagogue · ul. Miodowa 24

David Krakauer (US) Pan Ton Quartet (PL)

The Dybbuk was composed by a young Polish-Be-larusian-Jewish composer. Wlad Marhulets was commissioned to compose the concert by JCF for the Polish quartet called the Pan Ton Quar-tet and the brilliant clarinettist, David Krakauer, who will perform this work at noon, on the first Festival Sunday. The concert will also include other classical works and a selection of the best pieces of klezmer music.

David Krakauer (clarinet), Karolina Szymbara ( first violin), Joanna Okoń (second violin), Paweł Riess (viola), Łukasz Laxy (cello)

Klezmer Orchestra of the Sejny Theatre / PL

Thursday, June 28, 7:00 pmTempel Synagogue · ul. Miodowa 24

feat. Frank London (US) David Krakauer (US) Michael Alpert (US)

The orchestra consists of young people associ-ated with The Borderlands of Arts, Cultures and Nations Centre in Sejny. In their educational and artistic work both institutions draw on the mul-ticultural heritage of Central and Eastern Eu-rope. The orchestra was established to work on the stage production of The Dybbuk by Szymon An-ski in 1996. Since then, a fascinating adven-ture with klezmer music for young people from the border region of Sejny has been going on.

This year orchestra will perform with prom-inent New York musicians, beloved by festival audience – Frank London, David Krakauer and Michael Alpert. Sejny and New York become symbolic. The former is a town in Central Europe where Yiddish culture once flourished; the latter is the metropolis of the “Goldene Land”, where Jewish immigrants settled at the turn of the 20th century, and a repository of their cultural herit-age. A key part of this heritage is klezmer music, inherent in the culture of borderlands, its sound a blend of traditions rooted in the lands of pres-ent-day Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Poland.

Dominika Korzeniecka (drums), Mateusz Bar-tosiewicz (drums), Borys Pol (percussion), Tadeusz Soroko (tuba), Michał Jachimowicz (tenor saxo-phone), Stanisław Soroko (alt saxhorn), Mateusz Sznejkowski (slide trombone), Maciej Soroko (slide trombone), Patryk Masłowski (velve trombone), Dominik Sekura (trumpet), Kacper Szroeder

(trumpet), Marcin Dąbrowski (trumpet), Michał Popiel (cornet), Maciej Popiel (alto saxophone), Paweł Jaczewski (alto saxophone), Maja Misiu-kanis (alto saxophone), Mikołaj Pol (vibraphone, dulcimer), Michał Moniuszko (double bass), Woj-ciech Szroeder (accordion), Janek Głembocki (alto saxophone), Hubert Okulanis (alt saxhorn), Frank London (trumpet), David Krakauer (clari-net), Michael Alpert (vocal, violin)

Eleanor Reissa, Frank London & Klezmer Brass Allstars / US

Monday, June 25, 7:00 pmTempel Synagogue · ul. Miodowa 24

The Brooklyn-based singer and actress Eleanor Reissa is one of few Yiddish vocalists who learned klezmer music and language in her family home. In turn, Frank London, also from Brooklyn, grew up listening to rock music and Frank Zappa while at home he spoke only English and then suddenly discovered the klezmer heritage of his ancestors and completely revolutionized it. The combina-tion of Eleanor’s talent and Klezmer Brass Allstars’ madness in Frank’s arrangement produce a pro-gramme that goes straight to the heart. It consists of forgotten songs as well as klezmer hits, poetic song, or ones that talk about the situation of wom-en and politics. Their first album, Vilde Mekhaye (Wild Ecstasy) was released in June 2016. After a year of absence, Frank London returns to Jew-ish Cultural Festival to take over the stage again at the Tempel Synagogue.

Eleanor Reissa (vocal), Frank London (trupmet), Michael Winograd (clarinet), Brian Drye (trom-bone), Ron Caswell (tuba), Patric Farrell (accor-dion), Aaron Alexander (drums)

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Jerusalem Quartet / IL

Tuesday, June 26, 7:00 pmTempel Synagogue · ul. Miodowa 24

“Passion, precision, warmth, a gold blend: these are the trademarks of this excellent Israeli string quartet”. Such was The New York Times’ impression of the Jerusalem Quartet. Since the ensemble’s founding in 1993 and subsequent 1996 debut, the four Israeli musicians have em-barked on a journey of growth and maturation. This journey has resulted in a wide repertoire and stunning depth of expression, which carries on the string quartet tradition in a unique manner. The ensemble has found its core in a warm and full sound and an egalitarian balance between high and low voices. This approach allows the quartet to maintain a healthy relationship be-tween individual expression and a transparent and respectful presentation of the composer’s work. It is also the drive and motivation for the continuing refinement of its interpretations of the classical repertoire as well as explora-tion of new epochs.

For Festival audience, the quartet will pres-ent works of Leoš Janáček, Erwin Schulhoff and Antonín Dvořák.

Alexander Pavlovsky (violin), Sergei Bresler (vio-lin), Ori Kam (viola), Kyril Zlotnikov (violoncello)

The Kutiman Orchestra / IL

Wednesday, June 27, 7:00 pmTempel Synagogue · ul. Miodowa 24

Referred to as the “psychedelic space funk archi-tect”, Kutiman has gained recognition among fans and the media for his audio-visual collag-es that have had millions of hits on YouTube within a decade. Thru You, his pioneering pro-ject, was hailed by Time Magazine as one of the

“Best Inventions 2009”, and Pitchfork called Kutiman “a psyched out groove monster” in 2012, Kutiman made the video Mix Krakow with the participation of the musicians of the 22nd Jewish Culture Festival, the second film in the Mix the City series after Jerusalem, pre-senting a unique portrait of Krakow and Jewish Culture Festival.

The Kutiman Orchestra’s concerts bring the leader’s vision and creativity to life. Kutiman has invited the most talented and esteemed musi-cians from the Israeli stage to cooperate. Raw, bold, intelligent sounds, heavy groove, free inter-pretations of the precursors of cosmic jazz: this will certainly be one of the most unforgettable concerts in your life.

Ophir Kutiel (keyboard), Sefi Zisling (trumpet), Amir Bresler (drums), Eyal Talmudi (saxophone), Elran Dekel (bass), Idan Kupferberg (percussion), Uri Brauner Kinrot (guitar), Yaron Sarel (sound engineer)

Leopold Kozłowski. The Master and His Followers / PL

Sunday, July 1, 6:00 pmTempel Synagogue · ul. Miodowa 24

Leopold Kozłowski – the pianist, composer and conductor who has been called the last Klezmer of Galicia – is the grandson of Pejsach Brandwein, the founder of the most famous klezmer band in Galicia. Leopold Kozłowski has been the musical director of the Jewish Theater in Warsaw and the Roma troupe. He has arranged all Polish versions of musical Fiddler on the Roof, and has composed music for film and theatre. As they do every day, his arrangements of Jewish songs will ring out on the last day of the Festival.

Leopold Kozłowski, Halina Jarczyk (violin), Marta Bizoń (vocals), Kamila Klimczak (vocals), Renata Świerczyńska (vocals), Andrzej Róg (vo-cals), Jacek Bylica (piano), Michał Wierba (pi-ano), Olek Brzeziński (piano), Jacek Hołubowski (accordion), Jacek Cygan (master of ceremony)

The Jerusalem Orchestra East & West / IL

Friday, June 29, 6:00 pmTempel Synagogue · ul. Miodowa 24

This orchestra is a fascinating musical phenome-non, specializing in the music of the Middle East, Andalusia and Maghreb. It consists of musicians originating from three great cultural and reli-gious orders: well-known soloists playing orig-inal Arab instruments, graduates of the music

academies of the former USSR and Israeli mu-sicians of the young generation.

Western music is represented by string, brass sections, a percussion section with drums and a bass guitar. It is headed by seven soloists, repre-senting the music of the east, playing traditional instruments: the qanun, the oud, the nay, the Arabic violin, the flamenco guitar, the mando-lin and the banjo. The orchestra performs and records with vocalists representing a broad spec-trum of music – from performers of liturgical music and virtuosos of oriental genres, through pop and rock artists, to opera singers. The con-ductor and music director, Tom Cohen, is an in-ternationally acclaimed composer, arranger and producer famous for his unique ability to play Arabic and North African music to classically educated Western musicians.

Tom Cohen (conductor, music director), Moshe Louk (vocal), Emil Zrihan (vocal)

NEW STAGE

Yudko / IL

Sunday, June 24, 9:00 pmHevre · ul. Meiselsa 18

Visual art: Elektro Moon Vision (PL)

Born in Jerusalem, the holy city, Yudko grew up on music, including Charlie Parker, Apex Twin, Goa Gill and Miles Davis. This citizen of the uni-verse who lives in Tel Aviv is always on his way to a new adventure, be it musical, cultural or galactic. His debut album Yudko is a unique re-lease, making him stand out in the family of Raw Tapes, bringing a fresh breath of experimental sound, strongly influenced by jazz inspirations of the artist. Using electronic noise, samples of sounds of everyday life and analogue devices, Yudko creates music which is deep like the sub-conscious – equally abstract, full of memories and movingly nostalgic.

Elektro Moon Vision is a Polish-Hungarian duet of new media artists. They combine cre-ative coding with the art of light, creating for instance interactive installations and original stage designs based on projections. Their works

M U S I C28.M U S I C 28.10 11have been presented at many events and exhi-bitions of new media art around the world, in-cluding MQ in Vienna, Akarenga Soko gallery in Japan, WRO Media Art Biennale or PdCon in New York. In Krakow, their works appeared at Conrad, Patchlab and Unsound Festivals, as well as at the concerts and events of Jewish Culture Festival.

Mała Orkiestra Dancingowa / PL

Monday, June 25, 9:00 pmHevre · ul. Meiselsa 18

Warsaw in the interwar period was a cosmopol-itan city, open to experimentation and external influences. At one point, the Warsaw audience was being shown cabarets straight from Berlin and Paris, Austrian operettas, new American music, Latin American dances, or from closer to home, Jewish and Roma music. This multicul-tural ferment contributed to the birth of a new, unique style of Polish popular music. In just one decade, thousands of great songs were written, most of which have long been forgotten.

Mała Orkiestra Dancingowa, under the direc-tion of Noam Zylberberg, has taken upon itself to recreate and bring back to life the sounds of 1930’s Warsaw, using surviving original record-ings and piano sheet music to reconstruct songs in their original arrangements, and play them as intended by the artists of the time. We would like to invite you to a dance party in the spirit of the 1930’s.

Noam Zylberberg (artistic direction, piano, vo-cals), Michał Górczyński (clarinet, saxophone), Michał Robak (clarinet), Maurycy Idzikowski

(trumpet), Filip Mazur (trumpet), Dagna Sad-kowska (violin), Olga Owczynnikow (violin), An-drzej Izdebski (banjo, guitar), Mikołaj Majkusiak (accordion), Łukasz Owczynnikow (double bass), Krzysztof Szmańda (drums, vibraphone)

Noga Erez / IL

Tuesday, June 26, 9:00 pmTeatr Nowy · ul. Krakowska 41

For Noga Erez, who grew up in Tel Aviv, it was always clear that regardless of her attitude to her homeland and what music she would write, she could not escape from the environment she came from. After all, escapism is only possible when there is something to run away from. If there is something that cannot be said about Noga, it is that she is naïve. And that means a simple thing: her music reflects the way she has learned to live. She herself puts it this way: I have this idea of giv-ing people moments of thought and inspiration, and at the same time offering escapism and fun.

It was not an easy task, but few do it as well as Noga. The music she creates in collaboration with the producer and composer Ori Rousso, ex-plores in depth various areas of electronics, in-spired by the works of Björk, M.I.A, fka Twigs, Flying Lotos, Kendrick Lamar and Frank Ocean. Rough textures, powerful tones tuned with a syn-thesizer and bits boldly combine different gen-res. Noga Erez will play for the Festival audience the music from her debut album Off the Radar released in 2017.

Noga Erez (vocal), Ori Rousso (synth), Ran Jokobo-vitz (drums), Julie Odeurs (sound engineer)

Victoria Hanna / IL

Wednesday, June 27, 9:00 pmTeatr Nowy · ul. Krakowska 41

Born in an ultra-Orthodox family in a religious part of Jerusalem, Victoria Hanna spent her childhood and youth studying religious texts without any contact with the secular commu-nity of the city. This experience has helped her find her place when she crossed the border – she found her own, absolutely unique way of express-ing herself and her femininity.

Victoria Hanna raps in Aramaic, and her lyr-ics are ancient Hebrew texts. The term “vocalist” does not even begin to describe her skills – Victo-ria analyzes and crosses the boundaries of sound. She plays around with Hebrew letters, recites aleph-bet, balances between early and contem-porary music, mixes and combines religious and philosophical texts, such as the Song of Songs or the Book of Creation with pop arrangements. Victoria captivates her audience at each perfor-mance when she is at once imperious and del-icate, beautiful and sensual, crossing borders and shy. The first music video of the artist called Aleph-bet song (Hosha’ana) released on the Inter-net in 2015, quickly went viral, with over a mil-lion hits on YouTube, and her debut album was considered one of the most important music events in Israel in 2017.

Victoria Hanna (vocal), Roy Rabinovici (keyboard, tenor saxophone), Nir Manzur (drums), Yarden Erez (accordion, oud), Oren Tal (lights)

Vocal workshops with Victoria Hanna will be held

on June 28, at 4:00 pm. For details see page 28

Abatte Barihun / IL

Shalom on Szeroka Street Saturday, June 30, 6:00 pmDetailed lineup will be announced at jewishfestival.pl

The Ethiopian born Abatte Barihun is one of the greatest Israeli virtuosos of the saxophone, but the powerful, hypnotizing vocal of the artist mustn’t be underestimated either. However, his musical career in Israel did not take off imme-diately. Abatte graduated from a music school in Addis Ababa, his hometown, where later he started a jazz band with the best-known Ethio-pian vocalist, Mahmoud Ahmed. In 1999, Ab-atte and his family left Ethiopia to move to Israel. Emigration marked the end of his musical career at least in form he had experienced up to that point: from the Ethiopian jazz scene he ended up washing dishes in restaurants. After many years, the Israeli music world rediscovered him: several local musicians who knew his talent and previous achievements helped him. He started cooperation on many projects, currently he is considered one of the most important represent-atives of the Israeli jazz scene. In Krakow, Abatte and his band will play the material written espe-cially for the JCF.

Abatte Barihun (vocal, saxophone), Amir Sad-ot (bass), Ilan Smilan (guitar), Yaron Ouzana (trombone), Idan Kupferberg (percussion), Amir Bresler (drums), Sefi Zisling (trumpet), Noam Havkin (keyboards)

Midnite Session: Abatte Barihun & Guests will be held

on June 27 at midnight. For details see page 12.

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Jazz Band Młynarski- -Masecki / PL

Shalom on Szeroka Street Saturday, June 30, 6:00 pmDetailed lineup will be announced at jewishfestival.pl

The outstanding pianist Marcin Masecki and Jan Emil Młynarski set up a band which recalls the old tradition of Polish interwar jazz bands. The Jazz Band repertoire includes swing pieces, mostly unknown. There will also be a few special tangoes which Polish composers were known for around the world. The whole project focuses on Adam Aston – the most outstanding Polish pre-war entertainment singer, and Henryk Wars – the most important Polish pre-war pianist, arranger and composer. Marcin and Janek somehow make up for the lost opportunities of an entire gener-ation of Polish entertainment artists who had to flee, fight, die, emigrate at the height of their fame thus greatly impoverishing the Polish en-tertainment music world. Marcin’s arrangements and Janek’s vocals give the whole a completely new feeling making this music up-to-date and utilitarian, to dance and to cry.

Jan Emil Młynarski (vocal, banjola), Marcin Masecki (piano, musical arrangement, music di-rector), Jerzy Rogiewicz (drums), Piotr Wróbel (bass horn), Tomasz Duda (saxophone), Jarosław Bothur (saxophone), Michał Felter (saxophone), Maurycy Idzikowski (trumpet), Tomasz Ziętek (trumpet), Michał Tomaszczyk (trombone), string instruments: Marcin Markowicz, Marzena Mali- nowska, Danuta Kulisz, Malwina Kotz, Wojciech Bolsewicz, Tomasz Bolsewicz; Jan Wroński (sound engineer)

Midnite Session @ Alchemia

June 27–28, midnightAlchemia Club · ul. Estery 5

Jam sessions are returning to Krakow’s Al-chemia pub, nights of unpredictable musical improvisations, which are the essence of the richness and diversity of Jewish culture. We would like to invite you to the Midnite Sessions during which the musicians will take the stage. Frank London, Sefi Zisling, Abatte Barihun and their guests will play for you this year.

The Sefi Zisling Quartet / IL

Thursday, June 28, 10:00 pmAlchemia Club · ul. Estery 5

Sefi Zisling is known as the top trumpeter of Tel Aviv Jazz and Funk music scene. After fifteen years of recording and touring with almost all the most important Israeli musicians, he released his solo album Beyond the Things I Know in 2017. It is the outcome of close cooperation and friend-ship with the multi-instrumentalist and producer Rejoicer. The material recorded during a three-day studio session is a marriage of afro-jazz, jerky

beats and psychedelic funk. When listening to subsequent songs, the echoes of the great artists such as Alice Coltrane, Fela Kuti, Mulatu Astatke, Shuggie Otis and Donald Byrd become evident. The talented musicians with whom Sefi gives concerts play an important role in the process of converting studio material into stage condi-tions, giving it an even deeper dimension and a jazz feeling.

Sefi Zisling (trupmet), Noam Havkin (keyboard), Tom Robert Bollig (drums), Omri Shani (bass)

Young Yosef / IL

Sunday, July 1, 9:00 pmCheder · ul. Józefa 36

The Young Yosef collective was established in winter 2015. Its members grew up together in the south-east of Israel, where as teenagers in the privacy of their rooms, they experiment-ed with music, visual arts and acting. Their de-but album, released this spring, recalls the style of the legendary Studio 54 nightclub. The musi-cians draw inspiration from a variety of sourc-es – from smooth soul, through J-pop, sweet melodies, to funky bass lines. This will be a very colourful finale of this year’s Festival, where the vivid band will take care of the musical and visual setting. Don’t miss it!

Joseph Madar (vocal, keyboard), Guy Gefen (key-board), Dekel Adin (bass), Ziv Yamin (drums), Dean Frechtman (guitar), Roxy Caroline (back vocals), Helen Wells (back vocals)

DJ PARTIES

Opening Party

Friday, June 22, 10:00 pmBarka · vis-à-vis ul. Podgórska 16

Lower deck: Udi Niv (IL) Kalbata (IL), SchoolMaster (IL) Upper deck: Estropical (PL) Visual art: Elektro Moon Vision (PL)

The 28th edition of the Festival will start with a party at Barka River barge. We will import the Israeli Mediterranean summer from Tel Aviv to the River Wisła. Israeli DJs – Kalbata, Udi Niv and SchoolMaster – masters of combining the origins of Middle Eastern music with the freshest dance floor sounds will take over the lower deck. The upper deck will belong to a strong Krakow team including Kaj’t and Funklore, or 2/3 of the Estropical collective, who in addition to hot trop-ical rhythms, will also prepare an oriental part.

Collaboration: BARKA, TEDER.fm

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TEDER Weekender: Krakow Meets Tel Aviv

Friday, June 29, 10:00 pmBarka · vis-à-vis ul. Podgórska 16

Lower deck: Hectik (IL) Asaf Samuel (IL), Danny Vak (IL) Autarkic (IL) – live act Upper deck: Yoav Saar (IL) Omri Cohen (IL) David Rachmani (IL) Visual art: Elektro Moon Vision (PL)

The leading Tel Aviv DJs, two decks of Barka River Barge Café, various sounds – from tech-no, through house to Middle Eastern electronics. This is what the second weekend of the Festival has looked like invariably since 2014. As the best traditions should be continued, this year we are also inviting you to TEDER Weekender, one of the most important club events in Krakow. As always, we have invited the most intriguing rep-resentatives of the Tel Aviv DJ scene – a party centre of the Middle East.

Teder is a radio station, a bar, a pizzeria, and a multifunctional venue which serves as a play-ground for curating and creating ever-changing content throughout the whole year, always free of charge. Alongside numerous events, such as live shows, fairs, DJ parties, movie screenings, Teder also hosts a vibrant pop-up gallery. The project has been invited to many events in Israel such as the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Jerusalem Film Festival and the Israel Chamber Orchestra, as well as outside the country, in Japan and Russia.

Collaboration: BARKA, TEDER.fm

Omri Smadar / IL & Kixnare / PL

Tuesday, June 26, 11:00 pmAlchemia Club · ul. Estery 5

A Tel Aviv DJ, producer, composer, member of the Libra Discotheque collective, considered one of the most versatile figures in the urban underground scene. He regularly plays in the

top clubs of Tel Aviv, such as The Block, Boot-leg, Breakfast Club and Alphabet. His sets typi-cally contain a mixture of heavy house, oriental sounds, disco, African bits and techno. Smadar’s latest release, recorded with Ester Rad, Your Love Is Mine, heralding his solo album, has tak-en mainstream and alternative local radio sta-tions by storm. In 2017, he swayed the Kazimierz floors at Cheder’s b-day party, at the festival he will be accompanied by well-known Krakow DJ: Kixnare.

ACCOMPANYING PROGRAMME

Hommage an Else Lasker-Schüler

Sunday, June 24, 8:30 pmGalicia Jewish Museum · ul. Dajwór 18

Chamber opera by Josef Tal dir. Bruno Berger-Gorski (DE)

The chamber opera Hommage an Else Lask-er-Schüler [Homage to Else Lasker-Schüler] was written by Josef Tal (1910–2008) and focuses on the last years of the German-Jewish poet and painter Else Lasker-Schüler, which she spent in exile in Jerusalem, where she died in poverty in 1945. This is also the time when she wrote the play Me and Me (Ich und Ich), which describes her life on the Israeli streets.

Else Lasker-Schüler was one of the first eman-cipated, liberated women who opposed the ex-pectations of society, in other words – of men. She led a rich artistic and social life and was friends with Oskar Kokoschka, Gottfried Benn, Georg Trakl, and many others. As part of the event, the Chief Cantor of Vienna, Shmuel Barzi-lai, will perform Kaddish for Else Lasker-Schüler.

artists: Einat Aronstein, Ethel Merhaut, Anna Polony, Liliana Nelska, Marko Feingold, Shmuel Barzilai, Michał Kłodnicki, Lukac Gawronski; musicians: Israel Contemporary Players (Yuval Zorn, Amit Landau, Shira Mani, Chezy Nir; cos-tumes: Gera Graf; dramaturgy: Sandra Broeske, Michael W. Schlicht; light engineer: Tadeusz Krzeszowiak

Honorary patronage: Embassy of Austria in Warsaw,

Embassy of Israel in Warsaw, Austrian Cultural Forum,

Consulate General of the German Federal

Republic in Krakow

Organized by Galicia Jewish Museum, Musiktheater

Wien e.V., Consulate General of the Federal

Republic of Germany in Krakow

Krakow Revolutionary Choir / PL

Monday, June 25, 7:30 pmJCC Krakow · ul. Miodowa 24

The Krakow Revolutionary Choir will present revolutionary, proletarian, socialist and anar-chist songs in Yiddish that remind us of the history of Bund and the struggles of the Jewish proletariat. The choir was formed 6 years ago. Its repertoire includes songs in Polish, English, Hebrew, Yiddish, Italian, Spanish, and French. The songs deal with such subjects as workers’ rebellions, strikes, revolutions, resistance to fas-cism, women’s fight for emancipation, and coop-erative movement. The choir often performs at numerous manifestations, demonstrations, and ceremonies commemorating historical events as well as at many other meetings.

Organized by JCC Krakow

A Path of LightFriday, June 29, 8:00 pmGalicia Jewish Museum · ul. Dajwór 18

Hevreh Ensemble (US) Loli Kantor (US)

A Path of Light includes original works by Hevreh member and composer Jeff Adler and a video projection that will incorporate images from Loli Kantor’s recent book Beyond the Forest – the Jew-ish Presence in Eastern Europe 2004–2012.

Loli Kantor is an Israeli / American photogra-pher whose work centres in personal, commu-nity and cultural memory. In 2004 Kantor, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, both Pol-ish Jews, began exploring the subject of Jew-

ish presence and absence in Eastern Europe. Conceived as a short-term project, the work has evolved into nearly a decade of a photo-graphic exploration.

Jeff Adler (bass clarinet), Judith Danske (oboe), Laurie Friedman (clarinet), Adam Morrisson (keyboards)

Organized by Galicia Jewish Museum

Adam Bałdych / PL Gesharim

Monday, June 25, 8:00 pmGalicia Jewish Museum · ul. Dajwór 18

Solo violin recital

While searching for connections between classi-cal music and improvization, Adam Bałdych has been for many years building bridges between various musical genres and different cultures. The unique sound and his innovative technique bring a new energy into contemporary violin vir-tuosity.

His album, The New Tradition, features Israeli pianist Yaron Herman and has received world-wide acclaim. It is the result of artistic research by two young artists who are conscious of their origins and make a bold attempt of presenting the music of their roots in the context of contem-porary improvizational music.

To mark the 70th anniversary of the State of Israel and yet another Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Adam Bałdych will interpret the works of acclaimed Jewish composers Gideon Klein, Szymon Laks and Mieczysław Weinberg. An inti-mate concert performed in the form of a classical recital for solo violin improvizations.


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The Pianist of Willesden Lane

Tuesday, June 26, 7:00 pmGalicia Jewish Museum · ul. Dajwór 18

Mona Golabek (US)

This performance by acclaimed pianist Mona Golabek is first and foremost an expression of hope and the will to live. Performing the works of the most prominent composers, the pianist tells the story of her mother, Lisa Jura, who was part of the Kindertransport from Vienna as a teenager and for whom music was the source of hope and strength when she had to leave her family and settle in distant and alien England. This performance connects a touching family story and the most beautiful pieces of classical music, creating an amazing story of suffering, longing, loss, love, friendship and survival.

Patronage: Austrian Cultural Forum

Organized by Galicia Jewish Museum, Taube Center

for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland

Yiddish Love Songs

Friday, June 29, 10:00 pmGalicia Jewish Museum · ul. Dajwór 18

Cindy Paley (US), Menachem Mirski with band (PL)

In the early to mid-19th century, the emergence of Yiddish love songs was one of the first cracks in rabbinic domination that resulted in the Enlight-enment and the concept of Jewish peoplehood and secularism. Yiddish love songs were often simple and naïve, but their tunes were beautiful, expressing feelings of sadness, longing, lust, or the pain of separation.

Cindy Paley (vocal), Menachem Mirski (guitar and vocal), Piotr Tomala (accordion), Łukasz Downar (bass), Krzysztof Redas (drums), Mar-cin Król (violin)

Organized by the Association of Progressive

Jews of Krakow

SHOBOOLOHFriday, June 29, 8:00 pm2 Okna Café · ul. Józefa 40

Acoustic Acrobats (PL) & Karol Śmiałek (PL)

Immerse yourself into a literary-musical comic book with Shobooloh, a restless soul, wandering through the streets of towns and villages and searching for the lost world. The Shobooloh’s roam is the GATE to this land, still existing among words, notes and pictures, yet no longer belonging to our reality. The concert/perfor-mance is inspired by the works of Mordechaj Gebirtig and Izaak Bashevis Singer.

Jacek Hołubowski (accordion), Grzegorz Piętak (double bass), Mateusz Pliniewicz (violin), Piotr Skupniewicz (clarinet, bass clarinet), Bartłomiej Rojek (percussion), Karol Śmiałek (vocals, rec-itation)

Organized by 2 Okna Café

The Rebbetzin’s Silent Disco

Sunday, July 1, 9:00 pmJCC Krakow · ul. Miodowa 24

Jacqueline Nicholls (UK)

And you shall love your God with all your heart & soul, blues, funk, hip-hop, R&B, rock, in-die disco, reggae, euro-pop... Standing still, or swaying, is not an option. The Rebbetz-in’s Disco moves your body and soul, because these playlists have been created in honour of the heavens. This event is part of JCC Krakow’s 10th birthday celebrations.


WORKSHOPSYiddish Singing

June 25–29, noonSecondary School no. 6 · ul. Wąska 7

Ikh benk aheym: Yearning for Home, Yearning for Zion Cantor Jeff Warschauer (US)

Each year, a wonderful, international group comes together in Krakow to sing Yiddish songs, dance, learn and have fun. And in keep-ing with the Festival’s theme this year, there will be a special focus on songs about Zion. Togeth-er we will sing Yiddish songs and Jewish melo-dies that will help us express our deepest joys, hopes and yearnings for home and community. All are welcome, with no previous experience or knowledge necessary. Join us!

Klezmer Workshops

June 25–29, 10:00 amSecondary School no. 6 · ul. Wąska 7

Klezmer Basic and Beyond Deborah Strauss (US) Sanne Möricke (DE)

Once again, we are pleased to offer the very pop-ular klezmer workshops, led by two of the most accomplished and beloved teachers. This series introduces players of all instruments and abili-ties to the melodies, modes, rhythms and gen-res of Yiddish instrumental music. Each year, this class becomes it’s own heymish (warm and

friendly) community where musicians of all ages learn together in an intimate and supportive en-vironment. This year marks many milestones – 30 years since the first edition of the JCF, 70 years since the creation of the State of Israel, 100 since Polish independence. In honour of these milestones and the dreams that inspired them, we will learn special melodies of both longing and celebration. Learning will include playing by ear, singing and dancing.

Open Meetings

June 25, 28–29, 10:00 amSecondary School no. 6 · ul. Wąska 7

The Holy Void – The Heart of Zion Tanna Jakubowicz-Mount (PL) Anna Dodziuk (PL)

When I arrived in Yerushalayim and saw thou-sands of pilgrims of all nations and beliefs go-ing to the ruins of the temple, I felt deeply that the walls that contained the seat of Gd were de-stroyed but there was vast emptiness saturated with holiness and full of hopeful prayer of the living people. Along with other women, I leaned my forehead against the cold stones of the Wail-ing Wall and placed a note into a crack in the wall with prayers for peace between people on both sides of the border and for the health and happiness of our children and grandchildren... I strongly sensed there what the prophet Isaiah had predicted, that this place would become the home of all nations, a universal centre of spirit-uality... Instead of fighting for every piece of this holy land, we should let it bring us together and we should all look after it...

I am touched, because what I experienced there is in line with the deepest intentions of Open Meetings – to experience such space where people from different parts of the world stop, sit in a circle, share stories of their lives and allow their hearts hardened by their difficult life to become soft. We come together with respect and compassion for others ... Let this place called Ka-

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June 26–29, 2:00 pmSecondary School no. 6 · ul. Wąska 7

Kazimierz Full of Uniqueness Agnieszka Wozowicz (PL) Beata Miligan (PL)

We have the pleasure to invite you to stop-motion animation workshops. Inspired by the magic of Kazimierz, we will make short, though unusu-al, animated films. Like magicians of the past, we will make the impossible possible. Using il-lusions and clever tricks, we will create an en-chanted world in which people disappear, walk through the walls or change into someone else. The protagonists of these scenes will be you your-selves which is why you should bring headgear and vintage-style clothes along with other in-teresting props.

A field game on Tuesday will be a kind of a warm up for the workshop. It will give you a chance to learn about various unknown plac-es of the old Kazimierz and the history of its in-teresting residents. For the next two days you will be making films, and on Friday they will be shown to the public.

Workshops for youth aged 9–13.

WORKSHOPS FOR SENIOR CITIZENS

Here and There. Various Faces of Identity

Life is a constant quest: for a purpose, love, time. It is also a quest for people who are no longer there and those who we are still to discover. Life is about asking questions – about the meaning and the aim. And if there is an answer, it may only be found in the process of the quest it-self. This year, we would like to invite you to search and find together. We would like to dream

together about our own Zion which will provide fulfilment and a sense of security. We would like to think about who we are and what moulds us. Listen to those who are no longer there. Think about those who are yet to come. Stop and reflect how others are contributing to my “I”. We would like to invite you to join us on a road where we ask questions and look for answers together. We still have so much to find.

Workshops for Senior Citizens are a year-long

cycle of cultural and educational events organized

by volunteers of the Jewish Culture Festival,

The Machers, addressed to seniors only.

The initiative carried out within Grant Program for

Capgemini employees “We invest in good ideas.”

Theatre workshopsTuesday, June 26, 11:00 amOFFicyna Dance Studio · ul. Józefa 14

Katarzyna Zawadzka (PL)

Acting and its tools usually associated with pre-tending if used appropriately, help you discover and bring out your true nature. They allow you to enjoy your diverse, original identity: the external, physical and the internal, including sensitivity, intellect, imagination, life experience, emotions and wisdom. All this will mean that at the end of the joint workshop session you will be able to say loudly to yourselves and the world: “Here I am. This is me!”

Field GameMonday, June 25, 9:00 amStarting point: Cheder · ul. Józefa 36

Developed and produced by The Machers, JCF volunteers

This year, we would like to offer you a complete-ly new form of activity, combining elements of sightseeing, teamwork, puzzles and lectures. This will be an urban game in the heart of Krakow’s Kazimierz, which will bring closer the idea of Zion as a metaphor for Jewish spirituality, the topos of the homeland and the destination of the human journey. Re-discovering the seem-ingly well-known spots of Kazimierz, stopping

zi-mierz, which reads Izak-mierz backwards look high above the walls that divide us... Let Moun-tain Zion revive in us! (T. Jakubowicz-Mount)

Open Meetings Workshops

June 26–27, 10:00 amSecondary School no. 6 · ul. Wąska 7

And of Zion It Shall Be Said, This and that man was born in her (Psalm 87:5) Anna Dodziuk (PL) Tanna Jakubowicz-Mount (PL)

Zion appears in the Old Testament more than 100 times, it means the temple hill and Jeru-salem, but sometimes also the Promised Land, all of Israel. How is Zion described in bibli-cal texts, what does it embody, why did King David and the greatest of the prophets focus on it so much ? And what does it symbolize for us? Here are some answers: His holy mountain, beautiful and majestic, brings joy to all on earth (Psalm 48:3), God shines brightly from Zion, the most beautiful city (Psalm 50:2), Your home is on Mount Zion (Psalm 76:3), [the Lord] chose [...] Mount Zion, the place he loves (Psalm 78:68), You have gladly chosen Zion as your home, our LORD. You said, “This is my home! I will live here forever”. (Psalm 132:13-14).

Therefore, to this day the suffering of the ex-iles appeals to us, which is why we understand that the loss of Zion causes sadness and bitter crying which nations have experienced for cen-turies. But exile is not eternal. The promise of return supports the exiles, and the joy of arriv-ing in Zion is clear and resonant. There is no-body who is not directly connected to Zion with the most basic bond. As the psalmist says, And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her (Psalm 87:5). We will talk about the contemporary, personal meaning of the rela-tionship with Zion at various times in our lives, in chawrut, that is groups of several people fol-lowing the Jewish tradition, and then share with everyone what each and every one of us consid-ers to be important in these talks. No preparation or special knowledge is necessary, everyone who is interested is welcome! (A. Dodziuk)

Yidish Vinkl

June 24–25, 5:00 pm2 Okna Café · ul. Józefa 40

Agnieszka Legutko, PhD (PL/US) Anna Rozenfeld (PL)

You are once more invited to festival encounters in the Yiddish Vinkl, Yiddish Nook. It is not only a space where you can hear the mame-loshn, the mother tongue – Yiddish. It is also a place where you can meet old and new friends and chat about important subjects that are close to your heart – and all that in Yiddish! Kumt un farbrengt af yidish in Krokever Kuzmir! Come and hang out in Yiddish in Krakow’s Kazimierz!

Stories in Yiddish with Yiddishpop

Saturday, June 24, noonCheder · ul. Józefa 36

An Interactive Workshop for Children Agnieszka Legutko, PhD (PL/US) Anna Rozenfeld (PL)

What to do when the house is so crowded that there is not enough space for everyone? Come and find out what a smart rabbi advised. At the same time, you’ll learn some new words and songs in Yiddish. This interactive workshop for children (ages 1–101) in Yiddish, Polish, and English, will be combined with a presentation of a new chapter of Yiddishpop.com. It will be a lot of fun!

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Cooking Workshops

June 25–27, 4:00 pmHevre · ul. Meiselsa 18

From the Bible onto Your Plate Moshe Basson (IL)

What was cooking in Jacob’s “red stew” that made Esau give up his birthright? Who was the Hebrew king considered the founding father of the Freemasons society, and what’s his connec-tion to couscous? The cuisine of the ancient land of Israel is very much alive in the Bible. It lives through the stories in their incidentals – as the bulgur hideaway of King David’s spies, and the pinched cake of his grandmother. In our path, we’ll discover magnificent wild herbs and plants, ways to find them and prepare them, and revisit the seven species of the Land of Israel.

Monday, June 25Why is the red lentils soup actually green? As the soup bubbling and spreading its aroma, we’ll conjure up the one pot wonder maqluba. It is vi-tal that right before lifting the upside down pot, we all place our palms on its bottom to ensure the savory dish hold. Using a mortar and pestle, we’ll crush our own hyssop pesto. And last we’ll visit the muddy marshes of Balouza that gave the malabi pudding its name.

Tuesday, June 26Foraging the backyard can produce lovely whole-some dishes, we’ll learn to identify wild herbs and how to enhance its flavours in a stir-fry. Is the magic of the tabouleh salad achieved by the

perfect chopping of parsley, or is it the crunchy bulgur? Wheat is a staple grain in the Bible. Many stories revolve around the harvest season, follow-ing the processing. Cracking wheat to various consistencies is the basis for bulgur and sem-olina, we’ll find how to incorporate them from salad to dessert.

Wednesday, June 27Figs stuffed with chicken, fire roasted eggplant with pomegranates seeds and olive oil and raw tahini with dates syrup, the seven species are still very much relevant in today’s kitchen. Root-ed deep in the Land of Israel agricultural land-scape, still playing their instrumental part in dishes today.

The Shabbat Dinner

Friday, June 22, 7:00 pmCheder · ul. Józefa 36

Menu: Not So Kosher (PL)

We spend most of the week on the move, using up all our energy to constantly search for and strive to achieve smaller or bigger goals, anx-ious and busy. On the first Friday evening of the Festival, we want to persuade you to leave your everyday worries behind, take a deep breath, and stop. Inspired by what is universal in the Sabbath – rest, common meals – we would like to invite you to Cheder café table. We can all sit together with relatives, friends and strangers and leave our hectic everyday life outside, be-hind a closed door. A special menu inspired by diverse Jewish cuisine will be prepared by the Cheder crew – Not So Kosher.

for a moment at sights which are important for the intermingling of Jewish and Polish culture and delving into the history of these places, we will take you closer to the image of multicultur-al Kazimierz as the homeland of its former and present residents.

Jewish Art Workshops

June 28–29, 11:00 am2 Okna Café · ul. Józefa 40

Ornaments of the Jewish Home Monika Krajewska (PL)

Zion is not only a specific place on the map but also a symbol of a quest and longing for a home and a safe place to return to. Art helps you get closer to these places. It also expresses who you are, because through art you indirectly discover your identity. The participants will make their own Mizrach, that is ornamental wall plaques hung in the synagogue or at home on the east-ern wall, symbolizing where Jerusalem is, Be-saminka, or small containers in which cloves and cinnamon were put as well as wall plaques with the inscription Bruchim habaim, meaning Welcome or more literally Blessed are you who come, often found in Jewish homes and decorat-ed in the spirit of ancient Hebrew manuscripts with traditional symbols. Each workshop will be preceded by a short lecture. You don’t need to have any artistic skills to participate.

Israeli Dance Workshops

Wednesday, June 27, 11:00 amOFFicyna Dane Studio · ul. Józefa 14

Justyna Dragan (PL) Seniors from Senior Citizens’ Activity Centre Młodzi Duchem and Siódemka Centrum (PL)

Since biblical times, dance has accompanied Jews as a way of expressing joy and sadness. To-day it is also an inseparable element of religious, national, community and family celebrations. Folk dancing helped the first settlers rebuild their ancient homeland, but today it has taken off and now enjoys immense popularity round the world. Of the hundreds of Israeli dances in the circle, everyone can choose something for themselves. Join the fun, relax to the music and find hidden deposits of inner energy.

Guided Tour: the New Jewish Cemetery

Sunday, July 1, 4:30 pmStarting point: the New Jewish Cemetery (at the gates)

Agnieszka Legutko, PhD (PL/US)

During the walking tour, the participants will have the opportunity to reflect on “their inner Zion”. We will take you for a walk to discov-er identity – your own, but also past identities which no longer exist today. Who are those who have departed? Did they have the opportunity to discover their own Zion? Or are people doing it for them now? Studying texts on matzevot and listening to stories told by the guide, imbued by the atmosphere at the cemetery, the participants will recount a forgotten part of the tale of those who were unable to see Zion during their lifetime. Or maybe it wasn’t like that?

During the visit at the cemetery, men are obliged to wear

kippah or hat.

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June 25–29, 10:00 amJCC Krakow · ul. Miodowa 24

Yiddish language workshop Przemek Piekarski (PL) Julia Makosz (PL) Urszula Makosz (PL)

For the third year in a row during the Jewish Cul-ture Festival in Krakow, Julia and Urszula Mako-sz, together with Przemysław Piekarski, will lead Yiddish language workshops at the JCC. This se-ries of classes is designed to get you acquaint-ed with the basics of conversational Yiddish; you will practice writing in Yiddish, learn basic phrases and even some Yiddish songs.


Letʼs Talk About Israeli Wines…

Sunday, June 24, 4:30 pmJCC WEST · ul. Izaaka 5

Riddley Schiffer (US)

Join us and discover why these wines are catch-ing the attention of wine connoisseurs across the globe. This event will feature discussions on wine tasting in general and the wine regions of the Holy Land – not to mention an oppor-tunity to sample a selection of these incredi-ble wines!

Organized by Hillel GIMEL Jewish Student Club

Genealogical Consultations

June 25–26, 3:00 pmJCC Krakow · ul. Miodowa 24

Jakub Czupryński (PL)

From 3 to 7 pm, genealogist Jakub Czupryński will conduct private personal genealogical con-sultations. During a 20-minute session, you will get helpful information and practical tips on

how to research your family history and trace your lineage.


First Aid. The Value of Life in Judaism

Monday, June 25, 6 p.m.JCC Krakow · ul. Miodowa 24

Adam Schorin (PL/US)

Have you ever wondered what you’d do if you came across someone having a heart attack? Or how you could help if you were the first to arrive at a car crash? Then perhaps you’ve also wondered what Jewish tradition says about emer-gency medical care! If that’s the case, join Adam Schorin, a certified Wilderness-EMT, to learn some basic tools of first aid and how emergency medicine is treated in Jewish law and practice. In this hands-on workshop, learn how to iden-tify a stroke and how the rabbis determine a pa-tient has died; attempt to make splints with everyday objects and see what the Talmud has to say about burying amputated limbs; practice life-saving CPR and read up on organ donation and Halakha. Guaranteed to be a blast!


Polish ZionJune 25–27, 9:30 amJCC Krakow · ul. Miodowa 24

Ewa Hussain (AU)

Polish Zion is a series of workshops covering the history of Polish documents, genealogical re-search and Polish citizenship. A special guest speaker from Polaron’s head office in Melbourne will cover the history of Polish passports and their significance. We will examine how the changes to Jewish names after emigration oc-curred, in the context of genealogical research. We will also discuss the procedures of confirming and obtaining Polish citizenship.

Organized by Polaron

The Shabbat: A Picnic

Saturday, June 23, 11:00 am – 3:00 pmInflancki Boulevard, next to Piekarska Street

A refreshing breeze, the salty smell of the sea, burning sun, Middle Eastern sounds and deli-cious food – that’s how people imagine Israel. We would like to import this atmosphere to Krakow, replacing the Mediterranean Sea with the River Wisła. Nothing will let you experience the Middle East celebration of life better than food and music!

We have the pleasure to invite you to a special Festival edition of the popular second Sabbath breakfast. This time you will leave Cheder café to go on a picnic on the Wisła River Boulevards. Forget your everyday life and spend this slow, lazy Saturday with your loved ones.

The food will be prepared by the Cheder crew – the Not So Kosher, and musical nour-ishment will be served by Krakow DJ Universo.


Beverages of the Middle East

Monday, June 25, noonJCC Krakow · ul. Miodowa 24

Kasia Leonardi (PL) Jakub Katulski (PL)

Hot beverages not only warm you up in win-tertime, but also quench your thirst dur-ing a heat wave. If you want to find out more about authentic hot beverages of the Middle East, come to this workshop led by Kasia Leona- rdi and Jakub Katulski. Together, we will pre-pare fragrant spiced coffee and tea just the way they have been making them in the Levant for centuries. The workshop will culminate with mastering the skill of making sahlab – a tradi-tional dessert with hot milk and vanilla.


Yiddish Favorites for Community Singing

June 24, 6:00 pm June 25–26, 11:30 amGalicia Jewish Museum · ul. Dajwór 18

Cindy Paley (US)

Join Cindy Paley as she leads everyone in some of the most popular Yiddish folk songs. Work-shop includes: songs of childhood (Oyfn Pripe-chik, Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen), community songs (Ale Brider, Der Rebe Elimelekh, Undzer Nigundl, Oyfn Veg Shteyt a Boym, Belz), Hassidic songs (Shnirele Perele), songs of America (Di Grine Kuzine, Mayn Rue Plats), love songs (Tumbala-laika, Di Sapozhkelekh), and songs of the Holo-caust (Zog Nit Keynmol).

Organized by the Association of Progressive

Jews of Krakow

Israeli JigsawMonday, June 25, 10:30 amGalicia Jewish Museum · ul. Dajwór 18

Bartosz Duszyński (PL)

Beta Israel, Cia Dolorosa, Shawarma, Druze. The meaning of these exotic words and of many oth-ers will be explained during our meeting called Israeli Jigsaw. We will describe the country using photographs, stories from our travels, and films. You will find out who lives in Israel, how many religions there are, and which snacks await you at every corner. We will go on a virtual journey through amazing places, from the ancient for-tress of Masada, the Dead Sea, to the amazing beaches of the modern and loud Tel Aviv. Are you ready to travel?

Workshops for teenagers aged 12–15.


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June 27, 28, 4:30 pmTruckarnia · ul. Dajwór 21

Agnieszka Delkowska (PL)

Israeli cuisine – the melting pot of tastes and a variety of culinary traditions which were brought to the country established in 1948 by people from all over the world. The phenome-non of Israeli cuisine will be explained to you by Agnieszka Delkowska, chef, culinary con-sultant, passionate about strong tastes and un-conventional combinations, author of the Lady Kitchen blog.

During the first workshop we will prepare ba-baganoush, muhamara, hummus and fattoush.

During the second workshop we will prepare tabbouleh, charoset, sabich and chopped herring.


The Little Zohar and Other Stories

Thursday, June 28, 10:30 amGalicia Jewish Museum · ul. Dajwór 18

Mateusz Świstak (PL)

Why the Scripture is more than letters and Zion is more than a mountain? We will search for the an-swers to these questions in the stories from the Zo-har, the Book of Light. Together we will look at the mysterious mountain and we will try to guess its meaning. We will find out how words can change reality and together we will sink into the infinite richness of fantastic stories from the Book of Light and beyond. This will be a bit of a lecture, a bit of a workshop, but most of all – great fun!

The meeting will be led by Mateusz Świstak, a charismatic storyteller and educator, author of the blog basnienawarsztacie.pl


Israeli Dance

Friday, June 29, noonJCC Krakow · ul. Miodowa 24

Awa Cybulska (PL)

Israeli dances clearly show the influence of var-ious cultural traditions, which perfectly reflects the multiculturalism of Israel. Israeli dance style borrows from Greek, Yemen, Balkan, Russian, and even Irish dances.


Learn Talmud Like an Artist

Saturday, June 30, 3:00 pmJCC Krakow · ul. Miodowa 24

Jacqueline Nicholls (UK)

What does an artist notice that a yeshiva student might not see? Daf Yomi is the study of a page of Talmud a day. Once practiced only in tradi-tional communities, it’s now popular across the Jewish world. Drawyomi is Jacqueline’s online project that draws inspiration from the day’s Talmud page, and offers a different perspective on the text.

This event was made possible thanks to the generous

support of Miriam Romm in memory of her father, Moniek;

grandparents, Ryfka and David, and the Grajower Family.


Bagel Baking: New York vs. Montreal

June 26–27, noonJCC Krakow · ul. Miodowa 24

Laurel Kratochvila (US/DE)

The two biggest hubs of bagel baking in the world are also complete opposites in their bagel philosophy. One takes a slow, salty rise to a crispy crust and thick chew. The other is thinner, faster, and sweeter. Learn to make and shape both va-rieties with baker Laurel Kratochvila and decide on which side of the debate you fall.


What Are You Talking About?!

Wednesday, June 27, 2:00 pmJCC Krakow · ul. Miodowa 24

Overcoming Cultural Differences Benji Lovitt (IL)

Do you interact with friends, colleagues, or customers abroad? Do you feel that even though you’re speaking the same language, you’re not speaking the same language? Ben-ji Lovitt’s fun and interactive session will ex-amine values and expectations and help break down cultural differences among Israelis, Poles, and people from around the world to create bet-ter communication, teamwork, and success.


Blood Red Thread in Judaism

Tuesday, June 26, 4:00 pmJCC Krakow · ul. Miodowa 24

Embroidery Workshop Jacqueline Nicholls (UK)

Bringing together Jewish folk practice, the Tanakh and Jewish law, this workshop explores the red thread amulet and its connection to blood in Jewish tradition. Participants will be embroidering with red thread while engaging with the texts, which opens up new avenues of thinking and reflection. The workshops will be preceded by a presentation by Miriam Romm about the connection between Jacqueline Nicholls’ work and the history of the Grajower family.

This event was made possible thanks to the generous

support of Miriam Romm in memory of her father, Moniek;

grandparents, Ryfka and David, and the Grajower Family.


Symbols Carved in Stone

Wednesday, June 27, 10:30 amNew Jewish Cemetery · ul. Miodowa 55 (at the gates)

Larysa Michalska (PL) Katarzyna Kotula-Domagała (PL)

We will go to a place where you will see lots of symbols, mysterious signs and riddles. Where do the lions and deer come from? What do the crowns mean? Why are there shelves bent by the weight of the books? How should we understand the symbols of a hand, a pitch-er, a bowl, or a candlestick? What is the mys-terious place in the heart of the Kazimierz district where you can find so many mysteri-ous images? Where did this diverse language come from?

Workshops for children aged 6–11.


Sambation – The Opening

Friday, June 22, 5:00 pm

On the first day of the Festival, we will open the door to the town house at ul. św. Sebastiana 32, inviting you to participate in the Sambation pro-ject. Throughout the Friday evening, and every consecutive day you will be able to take an active part in creating this place together with the art-ists. A good chill out atmosphere will be ensured by DJ Amit Stark and by Cheder, our Festival café.

Food Painting Ann Deych (IL)

June 22 (at the opening) July 1 (at the closing)

One of the artistic activities on the opening day of the project will be a cookery performance by Ann Deych. It is a story about the identity and definition of culture seen from the kitchen. The artist will create her abstract picture in front of the audience, combining Polish and Israeli cui-sine and products typical for both, testing their colours, shapes, flavours and textures. The par-ticipants will be able to actively co-create the final visual effect, eating the dishes prepared by Ann, at the same time changing the look of the “image”.

Printing Workshops Józef Rakoczy (PL)

June 23, 26, 1:00 pm

The artists from the HaMiffal collective will meet Józef Rakoczy, a Cracovian, a printer with great experience and passion for his profession, the creator of a traditional printing workshop at the Museum of Municipal Engineering. Togeth-er with them, you will make and print your own souvenir from JCF and Krakow’s Sambation on an old hand-held printing machine.

Collaboration: the Museum of Municipal Engineering

Head Force Performative visit to the Bosak house Anat Bosak (IL)

June 23, 25–29, 3:00 pm, 6:00 pm June 24, 30, 3:00 pm

Anat Bosak invites you to an interactive walk around the rooms where her ancestors lived. Moving in a small group of unfamiliar people, you will get headphones and listen to instruc-tions that will allow you to be a part of a site spe-cific performance and to see the space of the flat from a different, intimate perspective.

You may sign up for each walk half an hour earlier at 32 św. Sebastiana Street.

SAMBATIONJune 23 – July 1, 1:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Opening: June 22, 5:00 pm ul. św. Sebastiana 32

The Jewish Culture Festival has invited a collec-tive of artists from Jerusalem called HaMiffal to do the project inspired by Kazimierz – its histo-ry, cultural heritage and contemporary reality. On the border between the Jewish quarter and the old town, the Israeli artists will transform a flat in a historic town house at św. Sebastiana 32, belonging to the Bosak family, into a huge installation, forming a temporary cultural centre.

The apartment evokes a different reality, arousing memories and flooding the space with many layers of local history. The scheme will in-clude artistic interventions with the use of sculp-ture, paintings and video art as well as a diverse programme of workshops, performances and ar-tistic events with the participation of the audience.

Just like the legendary Sambation River, which was calm for 6 days and turned over boul-ders only on the Shabbat, providing a refuge for the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, the collective’s total actions talk of the experience of dealing with ab-sence, silenced myths, leading to the outburst of exposed art-making, stemming from suppressed subconsciousness.

Sambation is an open, unpredictable pro-ject. Each day you will be able to watch what the artists do and join in actively. We have organ-ized an array of events held at ul. św. Sebastiana 32 which will also be the Festival chill out zone where you can recover your energy and catch your breath between other Festival events in the shadow of the courtyard over drinks made by the Cheder crew.

HaMiffal Collective is a community of art-ists representing various fields of art who have joined forces to make a total artistic project in a historic building located in the heart of Jeru-salem. Once belonging to a wealthy Arab family, then abandoned for years, the house has a new life thanks to the collective. Wall paintings have been discovered, the history of the building has been examined and documented. At present, the artists run this place themselves, and it consists of a performance space, a gallery, a B&B for artists, a café and a workshop space. The project has been functioning for two years, based on the activities of the Empty House group (Bayit Rek), founded in 2011, which aims to transform abandoned build-ings into temporary “temples of culture”.

The town house at ul. św. Sebastiana 32 was bought by the Bosaks in 1910, and the entire large family lived there until they were moved to the ghetto in 1941. Józef Bosak, one of the few sur-vivors of the Bosak family, immigrated to Israel in 1949. Today, thanks to the kindness of Józef’s descendants, we are hosting the Sambation pro-ject, the cultural centre of the 28th Jewish Cul-ture Festival.

Artists: Ann Deych, Anat Bosak, Amit Stark, Deborah Fischer, Gilli Levi, Itamar Hammer-man, Kobi Vogman, Meydad Eliyahu, Michal Chevion, Michal Harada, Michael Cohen, Noa Arad Yairi, Neta Meisels, Shmulik Twig, Shavit Yaron, Tal Ben Hamo, Tal Harada, Yuval Yairi Artistic Director: Meydad Eliyahu

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LECTURESZionism as a Democratic Worldview

Sunday, June 24, noonCKŻ · ul. Meiselsa 17

Gadi Taub, PhD (IL)

The lecture will show how Zionism developed from the ideal of liberty, and finally arrived at the conclusion that Jews will only be free if they chose the path of European peoples and create a national liberation movement from themselves. Zionism was, therefore, an attempt to modernize and normalize Jewish existence.

Gadi Taub – a reporter, television presenter, screenwriter, lecturer at the Hebrew University at the Department of Communication and at the School of Public Policy, a columnist for Israeli and international press (including Haaretz, The New York Times, New Republic). He regularly ap-peared on the Council of the Wise television pro-gramme, an Israeli version of Washington Week in Review, where he became famous for polem-ical views on post-Zionism. Based on his best-selling novel, Allenby Street, a popular television series was made, which he co-wrote.

A Dream Come True: From Shtetl to Zion

Monday, June 25, noonCKŻ · ul. Meiselsa 17

30th Anniversary of JCF in Krakow Janusz Makuch (PL), Director of the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival

The thirtieth anniversary of the Jewish Culture Festival does not evoke the need for recapit-ulations. It is much more important what the history of the Festival will be like in the next

thirty years. History deprives me of hope, but my imagination allows me to foster it. The will to live and to create. Like in 1988 or today. JCF has gone on thanks to constant transformation. Thanks to the fact that it has retained affection for the “shtetl” and love for “Zion”. I will tell you how, for thirty years, consciously and against the judgment of History, the Festival has tried to lift the curse off the Polish soil. And also about why Zion – the longed for and the real – is more important to me than the most lofty hymns of remembrance about “a world that no longer exists”.

Prof. Dan Bahat

June 25–27, 2:00 pmCKŻ · ul. Meiselsa 17

Zion – the Dream and Reality

Is Zion an unambiguous term? Does it mean only the mountain in the southern part of Jerusalem, or does it have a much richer and more compli-cated story? Archaeology, history and religion lead us to the foundation of Israel’s existence from the dawn of history to modern times.

Jesus in the Temple – Why is the Jerusalem Temple not a Holy Place for the Christians?

For Jesus who was a Jew, like for every other Jew of those times, the Jerusalem Temple was the cen-tre of religious and secular life to which a religious Jew had the duty to come on a pilgrimage three times a year – at Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot. For

The Cinema Zion Film screenings

Thursday, June 28, 5:00 pm Friday, June 29, 9:00 pm

The cult Zion cinema operated in the very centre of Jerusalem, at Zion Square, from the 1920s to 1972. Referring to this important cultural cen-tre, we have prepared a screening of short silent films made by independent Israeli artists. What they have in common is Zion – Jerusalem and the realities of its everyday life – which artists transform creating their surreal film world.

Program editor: Gilli Levi

Drunk DJs Associations

Sunday, June 24, 6:00 pm

You are warmly invited to an unpredictable and slightly chaotic event. Each of the DJs is to re-spond to an earlier piece with a song that they associate with the title and explain their choice to the audience. If they can’t do it, they drink a shot of vodka as penalty. The musical story will start with a hit entitled Yerushalayim Shel Zahav (Golden Jerusalem). Three DJs, three hours and one fascinating journey through the history of Israeli music. DJs: Amit Stark, Gilli Tha Kid, Ofer

“SchoolMaster” Tal.

Vocal Workshops Language Creates Worlds: The Art of Voice and Language Victoria Hanna (IL)

Thursday, June 28, 4:00 pm

We all speak and use our voices daily, but have you ever stopped to wonder about this act of vocalization? What power does speech have be-yond being a practical tool for imparting infor-mation? Voice exists as a physical frequency in space and can do incredible things once we be-come aware of that part of its nature. That this awareness exists can be found in Genesis, for example, with the myth that the world was cre-ated by a speech act. In this studio we will expe-rience the power of tone and pitch through the understanding that each word, each sentence that comes out of our mouths are sounds spill-ing into space. The powerful inspiration for this fascinating work are ancient Kabbalist writings that view the letters of the alphabet, the mouth, and language as tools of Creation.

A Good Enough City Neta Meisels (IL)

Saturday, June 30, 4:00 pm

HaMiffal (meaning a factory) is an artistic pro-ject that transformed an abandoned 19th century building in the heart of Jerusalem into a commu-nity centre of culture, where people from all walks of life can meet and express their creative selves. The place was created on the initiative of the Emp-ty House collective as an attempt to discover new ways of thinking and acting through the recovery of for the inhabitants unused urban spaces. Neta Meisels, Executive Director of HaMiffal, will tell the story of this place, present its goals and chal-lenges, encouraging discussion on the role of art in urban policy planning.

Artist Talk: Meetings with the creators of the Sambation project

June 23, 5:00 pm – Tal Harada (IL)Graphic designer, creator of visual identification of the Empty House and HaMiffal collective, he will talk about his work and projects.

June 26, 5:00 pm – Noa Arad Yairi (IL)The sculptor will talk about her inspirations and artistic activities in the galleries and urban spaces of Jerusalem.

June 27, 5:00 pm – Kobi Vogman (IL)The director, a visual artist, will present his latest works on creative activity on the border of the world of art, street art and commercial projects.

June 29, 5:00 – Meydad Eliyahu (IL)The artist and researcher will talk about the in-spiration of multi-layered local stories in their site-specific art, both in individual projects and as part of the activities of the creators’ collective.

Sambation – The Closing Take Apart

Sunday, July 1, 7:00–9:00 pm

We would like to invite you to the Sambation clos-ing evening. This will be the last meeting with the Jerusalem collective HaMiffal and the last chance to join their artistic activities. At the end, every-one will be able to take a piece of the Sambation project with them.

28.28.30 31L E C T U R E SL E C T U R E Sreligious Jews, the Temple was and still remains the centre of the world, and the so-called “Pal-estinian-Israeli conflict” is in fact a war for the Temple Mount. What then is the Temple for the Christians, or rather what is it not?

Fight for Zion

Israel is the only country for which the UN and UNESCO annually pass condemnation resolu-tions. Zion understood as the Temple Mount and the Old Jerusalem is also mentioned in those res-olutions. What is the “Zion Syndrome” that keeps representatives of the Muslim and Western world awake? Who is Zion indivisible and holy for?

Dan Bahat, born in Poland, one of the most prominent Israeli archaeologists and experts in the history of Jerusalem. The author of countless scientific publications and many fundamental archaeology books. Discoverer and prominent popularizer of knowledge about “The City of Stone”. During the Festival he will give three lectures richly illustrated with unique icono-graphic materials.

What Is Zion?Tuesday, June 26, noonCKŻ · ul. Meiselsa 17

Konstanty Gebert (PL)

For two thousand years, Jews prayed to be able to return to Zion, but there was never unanimi-ty about what this Zion would be. The kingdom of David, or a state like any other? A mystical experience, a geographical refuge or a political utopia? Light for nations or trivial normality? These disputes have not ceased after the Jews returned to Zion, on the contrary: they have in-tensified and deepened. You can even say that in the heart of Zion, like in the heart of the Torah, lies a dispute. And if so, you don’t even need to go back to Zion to be there.

Konstanty Gebert – journalist, psycholo-gist, translator and social activist. Co-founder of the Jewish Flying University set up in 1971 which until 1981 organized meetings on Jew-ish history and culture. Author of publications on Jewish issues, memory of the Holocaust, an-ti-Semitism. Founder of the monthly magazine Midrasz, columnist and commentator of Gazeta Wyborcza daily.

Israel at 70: A Soundtrack

June 26–27, 4:00 pmCKŻ · ul. Meiselsa 17

Prof. Edwin Seroussi (IL)

A series of three lecture-demonstrations present-ing selected aspects of the musical culture that developed in Israel, with emphasis on the past seventy years of statehood. The events will be illustrated with music, video and singing.

Songs of the Land of Israel – Nostalgia for a New Song

Hebrew songs and their actual singing in com-munity events played a crucial role in the con-solidation of the Zionist project through live practice. Hebrew songs instilled in singers new social ideals, the love for the landscape of Eretz Israel, and the very knowledge of the modern Hebrew language itself. These songs were am-bivalent, on the one hand they were supposedly new, a product of the new experience while on the other, they were just convers of older dias-poric Jewish songs just in a new Hebrew garment. Finally, the older Hebrew song repertoire, hard-ly a couple of decades old when Israel became a state, were already the object of nostalgia for a period of primordial innocence.

Hatikvah – All You Wanted to Know about It

All you wanted to know about a folk song that be-came the anthem of the State of Israel. A journey full of surprising turns. Through this one-hun-dred-and-twenty-year-long journey of one song, the social, political and aesthetic mechanisms through which Zionist culture came into being will be discussed.

The Polish Presence in Israeli Music

Celebrating a hundred years of the Polish Re-public and of the Balfour Declaration, an eval-uation of the crucial contribution of Jewish musicians who were born and educated in Po-land to the establishment of Israeli music, is due. The number of Polish-Jewish musicians is so high that it cannot be covered in one pres-entation. Therefore we will focus (and honour)

one towering figure whose input to the Israe-li soundtrack was decisive, Moshe Vilensky (Warsaw, 1910 – Tel Aviv, 1997), the author of, among many others, the immortal song Kala-niyot (“Anemones”).

Edwin Seroussi – musicology professor and director of the Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He was awarded the Israeli Prize for research in Culture, the Arts and Music for 2018. In his academic work he concentrates on the musical culture of the Middle East and the Mediterranean, the re-lationship between the Jewish and Muslim cul-tures, as well as popular music in Israel. Within the above fields he explores the process of hy-bridization, diaspora, nationalism and trans-na-tionalism in the context of the constitution of Jewish identity through music. Born in Monte-video (Uruguay), he emigrated to Israel at the age of 19.

Two Patriotisms. Zionists in the Second Polish Republic

Wednesday, June 27, noonCKŻ · ul. Meiselsa 17

Prof. Anna Landau-Czajka (PL)

In Poland, Jewish life flourished, this also ap-plied to political life. The Zionists were extreme-ly important, it was a new and attractive trend for young people, and thanks to a well-chosen political strategy, they had representatives in the parliament.

However, Zionists before and after 1918 had to face a problem which did not appear in coun-tries with a well-established statehood. As the Poles first fought for independence and then struggled a long time to maintain it, the loyalty of all citizens was more important than in oth-er countries. For the Zionists it was a problem, because they were put in a situation where the choice of loyalty to one country was automati-cally regarded as betrayal of the other. What at-tempts were made to combine the patriotism of Eretz Israel with Polish patriotism?

Anna Landau-Czajka – sociologist and historian, vice-dean for academic matters at

the Faculty of Social Sciences at SGGW War-saw University of Life Sciences, member of the Programme Council of the Jewish Historical In-stitute and the Academic Council of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She focuses on the history of Polish-Jewish relations, the history of women and social history of the 20th century. Author of books: In one house they stood... Concepts of solv-ing the Jewish issue in Polish journalism between 1933–1939, What Alice discovered on her own side of the mirror, Everyday life, society, power in textbooks for young children 1785–2000, The son’s name shall be Lech... Assimilation of Jews in interwar Poland, Poland is not they. Poland and the Poles in the Polish-language Jewish press of the Second Polish Republic. A monograph en-titled The Great Little Review will be published soon.

Poor Poles Look at the Ghetto – 31 Years Later

Thursday, June 28, 4:00 pmCKŻ · ul. Meiselsa 17

Prof. Jacek Leociak (PL)

Jan Błoński in his famous article entitled Bied-ni Polacy patrzą na getto (Poor Poles look at the ghetto), published in Tygodnik Powszech-ny weekly in 1987, hit the weak point of the Polish-Jewish vicious circle. And he spoke a language that had not been used before – a language of morality, a profoundly Christian language, because it reached the foundations – a sense of guilt and a plea for forgiveness. The question remains: how is Jan Błoński’s essay perceived in today’s Poland? In Poland where research on the Holocaust of Jews has devel-oped to an extent probably never envisaged by the author. In Poland where the politicians of the ruling party are making alternative histo-ry of the Holocaust. In Poland where the state allows fascist marches and anti-Semitism in public media.

Jacek Leociak – head of the Department of Holocaust Literature Research at the In-stitute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, member of the Theoret-ical Poetics and Semiotics Laboratory at the same institute, founding member of the Cen-

28.28.32 33L E C T U R E SL E C T U R E Stre for Jewish Holocaust Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences, editor of the Jewish Hol-ocaust. Studies and Materials. Together with Barbara Engelking, he developed the concept of the Holocaust gallery at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. His latest book, God’s Mills. Notes about the Church and the Hol-ocaust was published in March 2018 by Czarne Publishing House.

Secular Torah Study, Leadership, and a Vision for a Jewish Democratic Israel

Thursday, June 28, noonCKŻ · ul. Meiselsa 17

Ruth Calderon (IL)

Israel at 70 is, among other achivements, a unique total Jewish space. After seven dec-ades of building our security and economy it is time for a new set of questions: questions of Iden-tity. What is the place of religion in a Democratic Jewish state? How do we learn our past in a way that will best build the future? Who are the forces that will be effective in building a healthy crea-tive homeland for all Israel’s citizens?

Between Zion and Poland

Thursday, June 28, 2:00 pmCKŻ · ul. Meiselsa 17

Rabbi Ozjasz Thon and Jews in Reborn Poland Michał Galas, PhD (PL)

Abraham Ozjasz Thon (1870–1936) was one of the most prominent figures representing the Polish Jews in the interwar period in many pub-lic and political forums. Although he was born in Lviv and studied in Berlin, his activities as a preacher, rabbi, politician, journalist, theore-tician and Zionist activist are inseparably con-nected with Krakow, where he was a preacher

and rabbi in the Tempel Synagogue, and with Warsaw, where he represented Jews in the Sejm and lectured at the Institute of Judaic Studies. Ozjasz Thon greatly contributed to the creation of a monumental monograph entitled Jews in the Reborn Poland presenting the Jewish heritage in Poland. Recalling this character on the hun-dredth anniversary of Poland’s independence is our duty and obligation.

70 Years of the State of Israel

Friday, June 29, 4:00 pmCKŻ · ul. Meiselsa 17

From the birth of the Zionism movement to a nation of 8.5 millions Anna Azari (IL), Ambassador of Israel in Poland

This year we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of Israel. We will take you on a journey through Israel’s history. We will start with the beginnings of the Zionist move-ment and the ideas of Theodor Herzl, which lead to declaration of Israel’s independence in May 1948. We will then go on to discuss the ear-ly years of the new state. We will take a closer look at its external politics, as well as the internal situation – the kibbutz movement and the mass immigration. We will talk about Israel’s strug-gle to survive in the Middle East. We will finally get to know Israel as it is today – a multicultur-al nation of 8.5 million citizens with a thriving economy and start-up approach.

Theodor Herzl and the Vision of the Jewish State

Friday, June 29, noonCKŻ · ul. Meiselsa 17

Prof. Shlomo Avineri (IL)

An account of the European political and intel-lectual context of the emergence of Herzl’s Zion-ism, and how his vision stands up to the reality of contemporary Israel with its achievements and challenges.

Shlomo Avineri is a Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He served as Director-General of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He is the recipient of the Israel Prize, the country’s highest civilian decoration. He held visiting ap-pointments at Yale, Cornel, University of Cali-fornia, Oxford, the Central European University in Budapest, to name a few. His books on Hegel, Marx and Zionist thought have been translated into many languages. His most recent book is Herzl: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State.

Between Hope and Despair

Friday, June 28, 2:00 pmCKŻ · ul. Meiselsa 17

March ’68, April ’86, February 2018. A Polish Jew Looks at Poland Prof. Stanisław Krajewski (PL)

Has anything good or hopeful happened in Po-land and for Poland over the last 50 years? And why is it that today we are experiencing fear and disbelief about the situation of contemporary Jews, about building life after March, about hope, dialogue, anti-Semitism. Is there a future for Pol-ish Jews in Poland?

Stanisław Krajewski – philosopher and mathematician, one of the architects of the

process of the revival of Jewish life in Poland. Leading representative of the Christian-Jewish dialogue, a member of the team developing the exhibition at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

Optima Friday, June 29, 1:00 pmul. Krakusa 11

Several Aspects of Life in the Krakow Ghetto from the Perspective of One Place Katarzyna Zimmerer (PL)

The building of Optima Chocolate and Confection-ery Factory was constructed between 1923–1925 on a plot located between Węgierska and Krakus Streets. In 1937 the factory went bankrupt. The abandoned building fell into disrepair. At the time of the “Jewish Residential District” it got a new lease of life. Many stories may be told of the history of Jews in Krakow during the German occupation from the perspective of this building. I will tell you about looking after children and the homeless, re-ligious and cultural life, as well as the so-called declassing, the aim of which was to transform the Jewish intelligentsia into workers necessary in the economy of the Third Reich.


cHILLEL – chill-out zone by Hillel

June 23–24, 30, 1:00 pm June 25–28, 4:00 pmJCC WEST · ul. Izaaka 5

Chill out with Hillel! Stop by JCC WEST for some r&r: put your feet up, grab a drink, charge your phone, and chat with members of the Hillel GIMEL Jewish Student Club. Looking forward to seeing you there!


28.34 L E C T U R E SHow shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? (Psalms 137:4)

Saturday, June 23, 10:00 amGalicia Jewish Museum · ul. Dajwór 18

The Prewar Music of Krakow’s Zionists Sylwia Jakubczyk-Ślęczka (PL)

We invite you to join us on a journey to the mu-sical world of the pre-war Krakow Zionists. Fol-lowing a path of imagination through the streets of Kazimierz and Krakow, we will visit concert halls, party venues, cafés, houses and workplaces well-known from surviving press statements and memoirs. We will ask: what gave birth to a new song of Zion? Was it as described by the author of the Psalms? Provocatively, we will also ask about how and for what purpose they sang of their longing for Zion in interwar Krakow.

Organized by: the Centre for the Study of the History

and Culture of Krakow Jews (Jagiellonian University)

Hebrew Slang, or What You’ll Hear on the Streets in Israel

Saturday, June 23, 3:00 pmJCC WEST · ul. Izaaka 5

Serhii Chupryna (PL/UA)

A language is a living, ever changing organism. Many words that are part of modern-day conver-sational Hebrew won’t be found in textbooks and dictionaries. Current Hebrew slang borrows from a lot of so

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