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14th Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow
June 26 - July 4, 2004

 

Sunday, June 27

 

4:00 p.m.

Galicia Jewish Museum: Official exhibition opening - "Traces of Memory" - a Tribute to the Jews of Galicia. Photograps by Chris Schwarz, text by Professor Jonathan Webber (UK).

   

Monday, June 28

 

4:00 p.m.

Workshops: "In the Family Circle" Shana Penn (USA) and Anka Grupińska (Poland

   

Thursday, July 1

Regular events:

4:00 p.m.

Book promotion: "Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe" Ruth Gruber (USA) (Wydawnictwo Pogranicze)

 

Jewish dance course:

Every Sunday

11 a.m. -  1 p.m.

Friday, July 2

2:00 p.m.

Presentation of the project: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews

 

Hebrew language course:

(If the group consists of minimum 15 persons)

Info: Galicia jewish Museum.

6:00 p.m.

Book promotion: "The Jewish Life" H.Halkowski, (Kraków), Wyd. Austeria

 

Saturday, July 3

2:00 p.m.

Book promotion: "We from Jedwabne" Anna Bikont (Polska), Wydawnictwo Prószyński i s-ka

   

During the 14th Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow,

The Galicia Jewish Museum will be open: 9:00 a.m. till 11:00 p.m.

 
 

Other events:

   

Monday July 5

6:00 p.m.

"Traces of Memory: Piecing Together the Jewish Past of Galicia".
Prof. Jonathan Webber is a British anthropologist who has been researching Jewish Galicia with Chris Schwarz for many years. He is the UNESCO Chair of Jewish and Interfaith Studies at the  University of Birmingham.

(in English, free entrance)

   

Tuesday July 6

6:00 p.m.

Book promotion: “Kraków’s Kazimierz: Town of Partings and Returns”.The ultimate guide to Kazimierz. Agnieszka Legutko-Ołownia

(free entrance)

   

Thursday July 8

6:30 p.m.

Music performance :"From the big bang to the event (the Holocaust)" - inspiration: contemporary classical music, vangard jazz, folk)

Gilad Roth (Israel)

Jacek Hołubowski (Poland)

(Ticket price: 25 zł.)

   

Sunday July 11

6:00 p.m.

Recital of Yiddish songs with "Kuzmir" band

Tatiana Iwanko – violin

Wiaczesław Abaszidze -  double - bass

Marcin Filipek -  accordion

Maciej Kaczka -  singing

(Ticket price: 15 zł.)

   

Monday July 12

6:00 p.m.

Hebrew lesson (if the group consist of 15 persons)

(in Polish)

   

Tuesday July 13

6:00 p.m.

"Origin of Hasidism. From the history of Jewish mysticism in Poland".

Dr Michał Galas is a historian of religion dealing with history of Jewish religious tradition in Poland. Lecturer at the Department of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.

(in English, free entrance)

   

Friday July 16

8:00 p.m.

Concert of  The Cracow Klezmer Band

(Ticket price: 35 zł.)

   

Sunday July 18

6:00 p.m.

Recital of Yiddish songs with "Kuzmir" band

(Ticket price: 15 zł.)

   

Tuesday July 20

6:00 p.m.

Jews in Middle Ages Krakow"

Jerzy Mazur is a Ph. D. student at the Department of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Cracow and the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University (USA).

(in English, free entrance)

   

Sunday July 25

6:00 p.m.

Recital of Yiddish songs with  "Kuzmir" band

(Ticket price: 15 zł.)

   

Tuesday July 27

6:00 p.m.

"Auschwitz: Past and Present”.

Jaime Ashworth received his first degree in history from LSE in 1999, an MA in Central and Eastern European Studies from the Jagiellonian University in 2001, and is currently a doctoral student at the Jagiellonian University Centre for European Studies.

(in English, free entrance)