Poland

Polish university to restore Ph.D.s stripped by Nazis

The University of Wroclaw will symbolically reinstate 262 doctorates of mostly Jewish academics annulled almost eight decades ago.

U.S. seeking Polanski’s extradition from Poland

Polish officials said they received the request from Los Angeles prosecutors and that the filmmaker, who fled the U.S. in 1978, would likely be brought in for questioning by authorities in Krakow.

Rebuilt Polish synagogue to become Jewish museum

The Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland is aiming to open a revamped museum in the Great Synagogue in Leczna in 2016.

Culture

The Warsaw Yiddish Theater Takes America

United States

Obama names U.S. delegation to opening of Poland Jewish museum

Global

Mayor of Rome accompanying city’s high schoolers on Auschwitz trip

Culture

When the Hearthrob of the Yiddish Cinema Led Kol Nidre

Global

Polish Jewish group planning cemetery memorial

Global

Book: Jack the Ripper was a Jewish barber from Poland

Culture

In Poland, a renewal of memory — from Belzec to Rychwal

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