An-ski’s famed drama. In 1975, the young photographer Chuck Fishman visited Poland for the very first time. The photographs he took were published in the book 'Polish Jews: The Final Chapter'.

Considerable advance in Jewish agriculture in Poland is reported here as the result of a statistical enquiry carried through by the O.R.T. (Society for Promoting Agriculture and Handicraft among ...

Once a predominant element of Poland’s cultural landscape, performed in both Yiddish and Polish, it survived as the afterimage of an unjustly lost world. Today, Polish Jewish theatre is rebuilding and ...

Before World War II, Leżajsk was home to about 3,000 Jews and was an important centre of Hasidic Judaism in Poland. The town's two synagogues were burnt down in September 1939.

Commonly, the term describes the semi-official persecution of Jews in the Russian Empire that began in the early 1880s. With their situation in Russia basically hopeless, many Jewish families left ...

The last time I saw Krakow was the summer of 1990. Communist power had ended in Poland, but old ways continued. The police still barked orders. The buildings moldered. The air still choked with ...