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See The Yiddish Paper Beloved by Polish Jewry Before the War

Looking for news from the provinces? A husband? Sholem Aleichem’s book tour schedule? Published between 1908 and 1939, Haynt (along with Der Moment) was one of the two widest-circulation, longest-running Yiddish newspapers in Poland. Well-known writers (even some you’ve probably heard of), like I.L. Peretz and Sholem Aleichem, published columns in it. Haynt’s weekend edition had […]

Two pre-WWII Polish Torah scrolls to be restored

The Torah scrolls are originally from Zamosc and Zwierzyniec.

Go Through the Drawers of a 1930s Polish Jewish Kitchen

The New Site That Lets You Snoop Around an Old Polish Jewish Kitchen

Have you ever wanted to step into the past? Not into a famous battle, or a momentous event, but into someone else’s home, to be able to see how that person lived and worked? A new project from Indiana University lets you do just that. “In Mrs. Goldberg’s Kitchen“ is a digital panorama that visitors […]

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See The Yiddish Paper Beloved by Polish Jewry Before the War

Two pre-WWII Polish Torah scrolls to be restored

The New Site That Lets You Snoop Around an Old Polish Jewish Kitchen

Oscar nominee ‘Ida’ traces void left by Poland’s murdered Jews

Warsaw’s Jewish cemetery defender

Gas chamber discovery at Sobibor spurs calls to review museum project

Large Jewish cemetery in Warsaw is vandalized

Survivors gather for historic anniversary at Auschwitz

When the office is a death camp

Five years in the making, ‘The Return’ takes new look at Polish Jewish revival

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