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Jewish Food Is Making a Comeback in Poland
Jewish food, and especially Ashkenazic Jewish food, is slowly but steadily returning to the country, where many of the dishes ...
For Popiela, the answer is Poland’s failure to reckon with its past. In the decades after World War II, Polish-Jewish history was kept in what scholars call “the communist freezer.” ...
The Venus of Kołobrzeg, discovered by a Polish farmer on the Baltic coast in 2022, has been authenticated as a Neolithic ...
(JTA) — Poland is heading to the polls in a neck-and-neck presidential election that will shape the country’s future on the world stage — and its approach to history. On Sunday, voters are ...
The Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews is seen in Warsaw, Poland on Oct. 3, 2022. (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Advertisement. By Shira Li Bartov October 29, 2024 2:31 pm. Getting your ...
Voters are casting their ballots in the decisive runoff between Rafał Trzaskowski, the liberal-centrist mayor of Warsaw, and Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian rewriting Holocaust history.
Poland's communist history overshadows Holocaust remembrance. After 1945, the communist state took over Jewish property and focused its account of events -- its politics of history -- on the ...
Poland to vote for next president, with Holocaust history an apparent item on the ballot In Sunday’s crucial runoff election, Warsaw’s liberal-centrist mayor faces a right-wing historian who ...
History also casts shadows over the relationship between Poland and Germany. Tensions between the two countries rose during the 2015-2023 rule of PiS to their highest level since Poland threw off ...
The jointly written history textbook "Europe – Our History" is a flagship project of German-Polish cooperation. Dozens of academics from Poland and Germany have been working on the project since ...
The former Director of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Dariusz Stola poses for a portrait in the March 1968 exhibit room of Poland’s POLIN Museum on Feb. 19, 2020 in Warsaw ...
Fast Forward Poland votes for its next president, with Polish-Jewish history on the ballot The right-wing candidate has the support of a popular politician who lamented the “Judaization” of Poland ...