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A weekend with Jewish culture in Białystok in June This year the fifth edition of the Jewish culture festival under the banner of ‘Zachor-kolor i dźwięk’ (Zachor – the color and the sound) will be organized from June 15th-19th in Białystok. The festival has been organized by the Poland-Israel Citizen Education Center, the Jewish Religious Community in Warsaw and Podlaska Opera and Philharmonic in co-operation with Israeli and US Embassies in Poland. The aim behind the event is to remind of and nurture Jewish culture in Białystok. The said Zachor means a memory of those who were attached to this town in the past, while the colour and the sound stand for exhibitions and concerts. This time, the organizers will shed light on Józef Chazanowicz, a physician and bibliophile, one of the originators of the National Library and the University Library in Israel. Józef Chazanowicz will be the theme of a multimedia presentation and of an entire lecture that will be staged at the festival. Dawid Krakauer, a world-famous clarinetist living in the USA, will highlight the musical part of the festival. Additionally, Acustic Acrobats from Krakow, Pushkin Klezmer Band from Kiev, Dolly's Circus from Israel and Grupa Rafała Kmity as well as Ostatnie Takie Trio will perform. During the festival, a scholarly conference called ‘Jews in Eastern Poland- culture and traditions’ , co-organized with the Białystok University Philology Department, will take place. Konstanty Gebert, Michael Shudrich and Helena Datner will be honorary guests at the conference. The exhibition ‘Our Israelis’, mounted by the Israeli Embassy in Poland, will display life stories of people who left Poland and settled in Israel. Kosher meals will be served. Children and young people will have a chance to take part in numerous attractive events, such as a Jewish dance show. Source: Kurier Poranny http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/cms/news/2273,a-weekend-with-jewish-culture-in-bialystok-in-july/
Note from Ambassador Feinstein about the Presidential Medal of Freedom Dear friends, The U.S. Embassy in Warsaw is so proud that President Obama has chosen to honor the legacy of Professor Jan Karski with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian award.
In announcing the award yesterday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the President said, “Let us also tell our children about the Righteous Among the Nations. Among them was Jan Karski, a young Polish Catholic, who witnessed Jews being put on cattle cars, who saw the killings, and who told the truth, all the way to President Roosevelt himself.”
Karski was born in pre-war Poland and became a member of the Polish Underground during World War II. He reported abroad on the atrocities committed by the Nazis against Poland’s Jewish population. Karski believed he needed to witness the atrocities personally to be able to report with as much authority and detail as possible. To do so, he risked his life to enter the Warsaw Ghetto twice, and penetrated a Nazi killing field, later identified as the Izbica Lubelska transit camp. His account of the brutality and cruelty of the mass killings he witnessed may be the most affecting report of Nazi atrocities I have read.
Jan Karski was a Polish patriot who, in the best Polish tradition, stood up for the principles of human dignity and freedom, whatever the price and against the odds. I hope as a result of the President’s decision, Karski’s legacy will be even more widely known.
Karski was a citizen of Poland and the United States. His moral example and the values he lived by and espoused exemplify the enduring bonds that have united our countries since America’s founding.
Congratulations to Wanda Urbanska and Ewa Wierzynska of the Jan Karski U.S. Centennial Campaign, and to the many people in the United States and Poland who supported their efforts.
We will keep you up to date on events related to this award, and the Karski Centennial.
Sincerely,
Lee Feinstein
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TYKOCIN - jewish cemetery
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Białystok - Israel. Exchange of young people h__ttp://bialystok.gazeta.pl/bialystok/1,35235,10480007,Wiecej_nas_laczy__niz_dzieli Wymiana_mlodziezy_Polska_Izrael.html
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Jewish Culture Festival in Bialystok-June 12-14 -2011.
The Center for community Education Poland - Israel and Jewish Community in Warsaw organized the fourth annual Festival of Jewish Culture - "Zachor - color and sound" - taking place in June 12-14, 2011 in Bialystok.
The program follows:
Sunday, June 12
12.00 Noon -- Lectures at Galleria Sledzinskich, Legionowa Street 2 – Edyta Kurek from Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw- Ringelblum's Archives - secret archives of Warsaw Ghetto and Ewa Wroczynska, retired Director of the Synagogue Museum in Tykocin.
3:00 PM - Theater NN from Lublin at Galeria Sledzinskich (formerly the Citron Synagogue), Warynskiego Street 24a -- a play "Magician from Lublin," adapted from the book by Izaak Bashevich-Singer directed by Tomasz Pietrasiewicz and acted by Witold Dabrowski
5:00 PM - Performance at City Square by the Tower- presenting the flavor of Israeli and Jewish folklore dance ensemble from Warsaw "Snunit" and Bialystok band "Frey Lech Trio"
6:00 PM - Open air concert with Klezmer band "Opa" from Russia followed by Israeli rock singer Schachar Gilad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uG4YuYHNNk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORB9OWvyg6U&feature=related Monday, June 13
11:00 AM - Fundacja Shalom - City Square by the Tower presenting "CWISZN," a Jewish quarterly about the literature and art. Also, presenting a book by Feliks Tych titled "Memory, History of Polish Jews Before, During and After the Holocaust" -- Free copies available.
12:00 Noon - at "Akcent" bookstore ,Rynek Kosciuszki 17, presenting book by Bella Szwarcman-Czarnota titled "More Precious then Pearls"
2:00 PM - History of present day Israel in the form of photographic exhibit at the Zamenhof Center, Warszawska Street 19
6:00 PM - Esperanto cafe at Rynek Kosciuszki 10 -- a Yiddish film followed with a "Julius Adler" - lecture Wojciech Boklago de Bof
8:00 PM - Esperanto Cafe at Rynek Kosciuszki 10 - Rajfer Sisters from Israel singing songs made famous by Barry Sisters - program MC is Henryk Rajfer, an actor from the Jewish Theater in Warsaw
Tuesday June 14
12:00 Noon - Musical workshop at Esperanto Cafe, Rynek Kosciuszki 10 with Gerard Edery from USA singing traditional Sephardi songs 3:00 PM - at Akademia Teatralna, Sienkiewicza street 14, Musical program - Szmonces (Jewish humor) and lyrics songs of the Jewish cabarets of the period between the First and the Second World Wars performed by third year students from faculty of Puppetry Art, a Bialystok division of the Warsaw Theatrical Academy under pedagogical supervision of Artur Dwulit, vocal preparation by Bozena Bojaryn-Przybyla and musical direction by Romuald Kozakiewicz.
6:00 PM - Gala Concert at Branicki Castle -- Songs by Gustav Mahler and Mieczyslaw Weinberg with Malgorzata Panko - mezzosoprano, Robert Marat- fortepiano and Gerard Edery - Sephardi music affair.Welcome.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day-27 January 2011 The International Holocaust Remembrance Day-27th of January 2011-first time commemorate in Bialystok, organized by: Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej Polska Izrael, Philology Department University of Bialystok, US Embassy in Warsaw. Programm: 1.Opening of the exhibit - Dan Sainz-Political Couselor at US Embassy in Warsaw LIVING ON by Robert Heller from School of Journalism and Electronic Media of University of Tennessee brought to Poland by Victor Ash, the former ambassador of the United States in Poland 2.Lecture by Daniel Sainz and debate 3.Viewing of the film titled "Eight stories which did not change the world" by Ivo Krankowski and Jan Spiewak
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Important, Today 30th of June at 9pm Polish time,will be report at chanel tv CNN about Jewish Culture Festival ZACHOR 2010 in Bialystok,the festival was organize by Center of Education Poland Israel in Bialystok. Enjoy. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/07/02/poland.jewish.culture/?fbid=X6vxEDgYQft http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnRvNOya4Os http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAl4r0Vqy7s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeoDSSKDTg8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWsgG_vj1GYProgram
III Jewish Culture Festival
“ZACHOR Colour and Sound” רוכז
Bialystok 13th - 15th June 2010.
Sunday 13th June 2010. 12.00 Old City hall Museum (ratusz) Lectures: Andrzej Lechowski : Jewish Market in Bialystok Tomasz Wisniewski : Jewish Cemetery in Bialystok. Atlantis Exploration. Marcin Bolldorf : Jewish Motives in Art 16.30 Market near Townhole Marcin Bolldorf and kids - Jewish motives in art painting of fabulous Sztetl 17.00 Outside concert near Old town hall The Young Folk Crew (dir. Lech Mazurek) Moniek Przepiorka and others - Jewish Cabaret (actors of the Jewish Theater in Warsaw) KlezmaFour-Poland Exhibitions: Photograms exhibition of Izaak Celniker paintings (Cafe Esperanto square) Landscapes of Israel; photo exhibition by Shai Ginott (Cafe Esperanto). Exhibition organised by Israel Embassy in Poland/ Monday, 14th June2010. 12.00 University of Bialystok ; Filological Department assembly hall (Plac Uniwersytecki 1)/ Meeting with Chief Rabbi of Poland - Michael Shudrich. 17.00 Forum Cinema Yiddish Films Festival Opening speach: Malgorzata Burzynska-Keller (artistic director of Yiddish Films Art festival) 20.00 Esperanto Cafe Photograms exhibition of Izaak Celnikier paintings Radio audition of "Last of Commando copywriter"-Wieslaw Szymanski and Joanna Tomalska Documental film about Gedali Rozenmann Reifer Sisters Recital (Israel) Tuesday 15 th June 2010. 15.00 VI LO im. Krola Zygmunta Augusta class 67 (Warszawska Street 8) "Unloved" spectacle based on Arnost Lustig prose, performed by VI th LO students (direction -Anna Janina Kloza). 18.00 Podlaska Opera and Philharmonic Gala Concert (invitations) Ceremonial delivery of Yad Vashem Medals Rajfer Sisters (Israel). Opa Nowyj God (Russia - Petersburg)
http://www.poranny.pl/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110614/KONCERTY/263022779 If you are in the Bialystok area, please join us at this great cultural http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h5zbbYbK8to
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