POLIN Museum

👉 If you happen to be in Toronto next Wednesday, March 27, join us and Toronto Holocaust Museum for an illustrated lecture by Natalia Romik on Mayer Kirshenblatt!

📌 Millions of Jews in Eastern Europe once lived in towns, shtetlekh, where they created a vibrant Jewish way of life. Today, these shtetlekh are “post-Jewish” towns. Not a single Jew remains. This illustrated lecture juxtaposes the paintings of Toronto artist Mayer Kirshenblatt, who recalls his vivid childhood in Poland before the Holocaust, with the “post-Jewish” town that his birthplace, Opatów (Apt in Yiddish), has become.

📌 Join us for a chance to unpack this unique history through the lens of art and architecture with Dr. Natalia Romik, a public historian, architect, and artist whose work focuses on Jewish memory and Holocaust commemoration in Eastern Europe.

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This event is organized in partnership with the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University.

🇩🇪 This week we were honored to host German Federal Minister of Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger MdB.

🗣️ Minister Stark-Watzinger was greeted by the chair of Museum Council Marian Turski, and then visited our award-winning core exhibition, to which the German Federal Government has contributed financially.

Photos by Maciek Jaźwiecki.

🎵 This beautiful auditorium of our museum will resound today with the opening concert of the Polin Music Festival 2024, a celebration of Jewish music.

🎵 Among the pieces performed on Friday will be "Tfiles / Prayer," a new work by Alex Weiser—composer, scholar of Yiddish culture, and Director of Public Programs at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Additionally, there will be the Polish premiere of "Halil" (Hebrew for ‘flute’) by Leonard Bernstein.

👉 The POLIN Music Festival will end on Sunday, and you can find more information on concerts and tickets on our website: https://bit.ly/48mF3FP