Thursday, June 13, 2019

FROM JAN MEISELS ALLEN - Polish Website Highlights Selection of Synagogues That Can Be Visited





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From: Jan Meisels Allen <janmallen@att.net>
To: IAJGS Leadership Forum <leadership@iajgs.org>
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 08:46:41 -0700
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] (Poland) Polish Website Highlights Selection of Synagogues That Can Be Visited
The website culture.pl has photographs of Poland's synagogues that survived World War ll—some continue to operate today, while others serve as museums of the history and culture of Polish Jews. There is also a gallery of photographs of former synagogues that today function as other buildings. To view the photographs go to:

On the side of the photographs are links to other interesting sites ---just click on the titles:
We're Here: Polish Jews Today; Polish Cities Where Jewish Culture Lives On;  YIVO presents Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland; Prewar Jewish Life: The Secret Life of Menachem Kipnis; Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow and Tel Aviv; An Alternative History of Literature from Poland; Heaven's Gate: Wooden Synagogues in the Territories of the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; The Lost World of Yiddish Films in Poland; Remembering the Artists of the Warsaw Ghetto; Painting and Sculpture by Polish Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries; The Most Unusual Jewish Publication of Interwar Poland.


Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee