{"id":5060,"date":"2021-12-17T21:21:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T20:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2022-09-23T07:58:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T05:58:04","slug":"21st-polish-jewish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2021\/12\/17\/21st-polish-jewish\/","title":{"rendered":"21st Anniversary: Polish-Jewish Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>2000-2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Polish Cultural Institute New York<\/strong><br>60 E 42nd St Ste 3000<br>New York, NY 10165<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking back at the last <a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2021\/12\/10\/21st\/\"><strong>20+1 years of our work<\/strong><\/a>, we celebrate our 21st anniversary with you by sharing selected projects done in the past 21 years. Explore more current and recent <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/category\/events\/visual-arts\/\">Polish-Jewish Programming Project<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/category\/events\/visual-arts\/\"><strong>s<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Explore further highlights of the 20+1 years of our work:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2021\/12\/17\/21st-music\/\">Music<\/a><\/strong><br><strong>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2021\/12\/21\/21st-anniversary-humanities\/\">Humanities<\/a><br>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2021\/12\/20\/21st-visual-arts-design\/\">Visual Arts &amp; Design<\/a><\/strong><br><strong>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2021\/12\/20\/21st-film-performing-arts\/\">Film &amp; Performing Arts<\/a><br>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2021\/12\/17\/21st-polish-jewish\/\">Polish-Jewish Programming<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-5094\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2021-Film-Still-Life-in-Lodz-1024x682.png\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2021-Film-Still-Life-in-Lodz-1024x682.png 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2021-Film-Still-Life-in-Lodz-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2021-Film-Still-Life-in-Lodz-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2021-Film-Still-Life-in-Lodz.png 1498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Still Life in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The lure of family mysteries lies at the heart of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2021\/03\/19\/still-life-in-lodz\/\"><strong>Still Life in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a<\/strong><\/a>\u201d, an emotionally riveting documentary that journeys to the historically tumultuous city of Lodz, Poland. Here, a surprise reunion with a painting that hung in the same apartment for 75 world-altering years becomes a probing investigation into the power of&nbsp;<strong>memory, art, time and resilience<\/strong>. What follows is a deeply personal detective story rich with twists and turns. But, equally, the film is an ode to the lost generations of Jewish Lodz and a look at how fragile\u2014but also how incredibly necessary\u2014our relationship with the past is for creating the future. The Polish Cultural Institute New York was a media partner of the 2021 virtual screening in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8222;Gr\u00fcnberg effectively incorporates archival photos and footage, drawings, and lyrical, illustrative bits of animation into this brief but rich documentary, which ends on a lovely note that brings Elbaum\u2019s journey full circle.&#8221;<\/em>\u2014Los Angeles Times<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selected Press:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/11\/movies\/still-life-in-lodz-review.html\"><strong>The New York Times<\/strong><\/a>: \u2018Still Life in Lodz\u2019 Review: A Painting Becomes a Window<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2021-03-10\/still-life-in-lodz-review-documentary\"><strong>Los Angeles Times<\/strong><\/a>: Review:&nbsp;The documentary \u2018Still Life in Lodz\u2019 reveals the power of mementos and memories<br><a href=\"https:\/\/jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com\/still-life-in-lodz\/\"><strong>Jewish Standard<\/strong><\/a>: \u2018Still life in Lodz\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"665\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-5095\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2021-Author-Talk-Ellis-Island-A-Peoples-History.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2021-Author-Talk-Ellis-Island-A-Peoples-History.jpg 665w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2021-Author-Talk-Ellis-Island-A-Peoples-History-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Ellis Island A People&#8217;s History<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2021\/09\/21\/szejnert\/\">Ellis Island A People&#8217;s History<\/a><\/strong> book,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Malgorzata Szejnert, arguably Poland\u2019s greatest living writer, provides a dramatic, multi-vocal account of the agonies and ecstasies that played out in the walls of Ellis Island. This is a history of those who came, and those turned away,&nbsp;weaving together the personal experiences of the forgotten and remembered, as well the doctors, nurses, commissioners, interpreters, social workers, and chaperones who controlled the fates of the \u00e9migr\u00e9s\u2014often basing their decisions on pseudo-scientific ideas about race, gender, and disability. Brought to life by a master storyteller, it is a compelling new social history of an iconic place that reshaped the United States, focused on allowing the people to speak for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8222;[Malgorzata Szejner] decided to take on the subject of Ellis Island after discovering that not only had there never been a Polish book about it, but also that no book on the subject had ever been translated into Polish. The island had, however, been a place of great importance to the Polish people, millions of whom passed through when it was an active place of entry.&#8221;<\/em>\u2014Los Angeles Review of Books&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selected Press:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/ellis-island-peoples-history-review\/\"><strong>The Nation<\/strong><\/a>: How Should We Remember Ellis Island?<br><a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/key-island\/\"><strong>Los Angeles Review of Books<\/strong><\/a>: Key Island<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"388\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-5096\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2019-Polish-films-at-the-28th-annual-New-York-Jewish-Film-Festival-.png\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2019-Polish-films-at-the-28th-annual-New-York-Jewish-Film-Festival-.png 692w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2019-Polish-films-at-the-28th-annual-New-York-Jewish-Film-Festival--300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">New York Jewish Film Festival<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Jewish Museum, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Polish Cultural Institute continue their partnership presenting Polish films that explore the diversity of Jewish experience during the annual <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thejewishmuseum.org\/press\/press-release\/2021-new-york-jewish-film-festival\">New York Jewish Film Festival<\/a><\/strong>. For example, the <a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2020\/04\/15\/polish-films-at-the-28th-annual-new-york-jewish-film-festival\/\"><strong>28th year<\/strong><\/a>&#8217;s festival featured an exciting lineup of documentary, narrative, and short films, including new work by fresh voices in international cinema as well as restored classics. Among Polish accents during the festival there were three Polish productions and co-productions: <em>Happiness of the World<\/em>, directed by&nbsp;Michal Rosa&nbsp;and starring&nbsp;Karolina Gruszka; Polish-US documentary&nbsp;<em>Who Will Write Our History<\/em>, directed by&nbsp;Roberta Grossman, and&nbsp;<em>Chasing Portraits<\/em>, directed by&nbsp;Elizabeth Rynecki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8222;Using newsreels, voice-overs and re-enactments,&nbsp;Roberta Grossman, the documentary\u2019s director, paints a comprehensive portrait of the times and of the risks taken by Ringelblum and his group. The staged scenes are well acted, while readings from diaries and letters are heartbreaking.&#8221;<\/em>\u2014Ken Jaworowski, The New York Times<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selected Press:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/17\/movies\/who-will-write-our-history-review.html\"><strong>The New York Times<\/strong><\/a>: \u2018Who Will Write Our History\u2019 Review: A Vital Holocaust Documentary<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/01\/17\/685164331\/who-will-write-our-history-documenting-those-who-documented-the-warsaw-ghetto\"><strong>NPR<\/strong><\/a>: 'Who Will Write Our History&#8217;: Documenting Those Who Documented The Warsaw Ghetto<br><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/11\/discovery-acquires-global-tv-rights-warsaw-ghetto-documentary-who-will-write-our-history-1202788878\/\"><strong>Deadline<\/strong><\/a>: Discovery Acquires Global TV Rights To Warsaw Ghetto Documentary \u2018Who Will Write Our History\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim\" style=\"min-height:100vh;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"662\" height=\"994\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-5097\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2018-The-Auschwitz-Volunteer-Captain-Witold-Pilecki.png\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2018-The-Auschwitz-Volunteer-Captain-Witold-Pilecki.png 662w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2018-The-Auschwitz-Volunteer-Captain-Witold-Pilecki-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">The Auschwitz Volunteer: Captain Witold Pilecki<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, United Solo Festival and the Polish Cultural Institute New York present the New York Premiere of The Auschwitz Volunteer: Captain Witold Pilecki, a monodrama directed and performed by&nbsp;Marek Probosz. In September of 1940, Pilecki volunteered for a secret mission for the Polish Underground to smuggle out intelligence about the new German concentration camp, and to organize inmate resistance with the goal of helping the Allies liberate the camp from the inside. The 39-year-old officer walked into a German Nazi street roundup in Warsaw to get himself arrested and sent to Auschwitz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s one of the most amazing stories to come out of World War II,\u201d<\/em> said&nbsp;Terry Tegnazian, co-founder of Aquila Polonica, the publisher of Pilecki\u2019s autobiography and also a producer of the show. <em>\u201cHis experience that he\u2019s written down gives the details and a view of what went on in Auschwitz even in the years before it became a death camp for the Jews. In \u201940 and \u201941, it was primarily a camp for Polish political prisoners and anybody the Germans thought capable of resisting them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selected Links:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/remember\/international-holocaust-remembrance-day\/the-auschwitz-volunteer-pilecki\"><strong>United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/strong><\/a>: International Holocaust Remembrance Day<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-auschwitz-volunteer-captain-witold-pilecki\/1110792353\"><strong>Barnes &amp; Noble<\/strong><\/a>: The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim\" style=\"min-height:100vh;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-5098\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2015-The-Jewish-Presence-and-Absence-in-the-Theater-of-Tadeusz-Kantor-682x1024.png\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2015-The-Jewish-Presence-and-Absence-in-the-Theater-of-Tadeusz-Kantor-682x1024.png 682w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2015-The-Jewish-Presence-and-Absence-in-the-Theater-of-Tadeusz-Kantor-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2015-The-Jewish-Presence-and-Absence-in-the-Theater-of-Tadeusz-Kantor.png 694w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Tadeusz Kantor<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Jewish Presence and Absence in the Theater of Tadeusz Kantor, an Illustrated Lecture by David A. Goldfarb, was organized in 2015 by the Mid-Manhattan Library and the Dorot Jewish Division of the New York Public Library in cooperation with the Polish Cultural Institute New York. Tadeusz Kantor&nbsp;(1915-90), visual artist and theater director, played a key role in bringing the spirit and ideas of Poland&#8217;s interwar avant-garde into the postwar era. His works for the theater began with underground stagings of the works of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/culture.pl\/en\/artist\/stanislaw-ignacy-witkiewicz-witkacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz<\/strong><\/a>, known as &#8222;Witkacy,&#8221; and progressed toward international productions that would sell out New York&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/lamama.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>La Mama, E.T.C.<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;during his own lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selected Links:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clubfreetime.com\/new-york-city-nyc\/free-lecture\/2015-09-30\/event\/235546\"><strong>Club Free Time<\/strong><\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/dziennik.com\/publicystyka\/kultura\/sprawdz-co-warto-zobaczyc\/\"><strong>Nowy Dziennik<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim\" style=\"min-height:100vh;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"970\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-5099\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2007-The-Art-of-Polish-Jewish-Posters.png\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2007-The-Art-of-Polish-Jewish-Posters.png 690w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2007-The-Art-of-Polish-Jewish-Posters-213x300.png 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">The Art of Polish Jewish Posters<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>During the period from the end of World War ll (1945) until the fall of Communism in 1989, the Polish School of Posters became recognized as the best in contemporary poster art. Its artists created renowned theater, music, film, CYRK (circus), and Jewish cultural posters. JCC in San Francisco presents a rare local showing of these vintage art posters with Jewish themes; they are highly political and visually alluring. <em>The Art of Polish Jewish Posters<\/em>&nbsp;<em>from the Contemporary Posters collection<\/em> was organized in 2007 by&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.contemporaryposters.com\">Contemporary Posters<\/a><\/strong>, New York City based company specializing in the art of the Polish School of Posters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selected Press:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/live-jweekly.alleydev.com\/2007\/02\/16\/arts-37\/\"><strong>The Jewish News of North California<\/strong><\/a>: Arts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"694\" height=\"464\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-5100\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2006-Song-of-the-Lodz-Ghetto.png\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2006-Song-of-the-Lodz-Ghetto.png 694w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/12\/2006-Song-of-the-Lodz-Ghetto-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Song go the \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Ghetto<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The world-renowned New Jewish Music quartet&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjfza_m0PL0AhXBmOAKHTjeCJgQFnoECCoQAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fmusic.apple.com%2Fus%2Fartist%2Fbrave-old-world%2F2572078&amp;usg=AOvVaw2MZ91Hbjh0rdzWUBFwo5Ln\">Brave Old World<\/a><\/strong>, whose music combines the soulfulness of Yiddish tradition, the finesse of classical music and the vitality of jazz, performed, in 2006,&nbsp;<em>Song of the Lodz Ghetto<\/em>, a unique new musical work interweaving Jewish folk music of prewar Poland, rare street songs created between 1940 and 1944 in the Lodz Ghetto during the German occupation, and Brave Old World&#8217;s own arrangements and compositions. The performance offered a rare opportunity to enjoy soul-soaring, spirit-lifting&nbsp;<em>Yiddishkayt<\/em>&nbsp;that is simultaneously a universal testament to hope, redemption, and the determination of the human spirit to survive and sing. The concert was co-sponsored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishbookcenter.org\"><strong>National Yiddish Book Center<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8222;&#8230;<em>nothing less than brilliant, a recreation that is not merely respectful but stunningly inventive<\/em>.&#8221; &#8211; Jewish Week<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This concert grabbed its listeners and wouldn&#8217;t let go for a long time. The American quartet provoked storms of applause and blew away their audience in the sold-out hall.<\/em>&nbsp;&#8211; Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selected Press:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/community\/articles\/songs-from-the-ghetto\"><strong>Tablet Magazine<\/strong><\/a>: Songs From the Ghetto<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE NEW YORK<\/strong>&nbsp;was founded in 2000. It is a diplomatic mission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, operating in the area of public diplomacy. The PCI is one of 24 such institutes around the world. It is also an active member of the network of the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) in its New York cluster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Explore the highlights of the 20+1 years of our work:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2021\/12\/17\/21st-music\/\">Music<\/a><\/strong><br><strong>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2021\/12\/21\/21st-anniversary-humanities\/\">Humanities<\/a><br>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2021\/12\/20\/21st-visual-arts-design\/\">Visual Arts &amp; Design<\/a><\/strong><br><strong>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2021\/12\/20\/21st-film-performing-arts\/\">Film &amp; Performing Arts<\/a><br>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2021\/12\/17\/21st-polish-jewish\/\">Polish-Jewish Programming<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Institute\u2019s mission is to share Polish&nbsp;heritage&nbsp;and contemporary art with American audiences, and to promote Poland\u2019s contributions to the success of world culture. The Institute does so through initiating, supporting and promoting collaboration between Poland and the United States in the areas of visual art, design, film, theater, dance, literature, music, and in many other aspects of intellectual and social life. The Institute\u2019s main task to ensure Polish participation in the programming of America\u2019s most important cultural institutions as well as in large international initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/mVQCCjcWHjU\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Polish Cultural Institute New York <\/strong>works with renowned cultural and academic centers and opinion leaders operating on the American market. Its main partners include such prestigious organizations as Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Museum of Modern Art, PEN American Center, the Poetry Society of America, the National Gallery of Art, Yale University, Columbia University, Princeton University, the Harvard Film Archive, the CUNY Graduate Center, the Julliard School of Music, the New Museum, the Jewish Museum, La MaMa E.T.C. and many others. For more than fifteen years, it has presented Americans the achievements of outstanding Polish artists, including the filmmakers Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy Skolimowski; the writers Czeslaw Milosz, Adam Zagajewski and Wislawa Szymborska; the composers Krzysztof Penderecki, Witold Lutoslawski and Mikolaj Gorecki; theater artists Krystian Lupa, Jerzy Grotowski and Tadeusz Kantor; the visual artists Krzysztof Wodiczko, Katarzyna Kozyra, Alina Szapocznikow and many other important figures in the arts. The Institute initiates and actively participates in debates around the humanities in the broad sense, including those concerning history and the today\u2019s most important social and political occurrences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2000-2021 Polish Cultural Institute New York60 E 42nd St Ste 3000New York, NY 10165 Looking back at the last 20+1 years of our work, we celebrate our 21st anniversary with you by sharing selected projects done in the past 21 years. Explore more current and recent Polish-Jewish Programming Projects. 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Explore more current and recent Polish-Jewish Programming Projects.\nExplore further highlights of the 20+1 years of our work:\n\u2192 Music\u2192 Humanities\u2192 Visual Arts &amp; Design\u2192 Film &amp; Performing Arts\u2192 Polish-Jewish Programming\nThe lure of family mysteries lies at the heart of \u201cStill Life in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a\u201d, an emotionally riveting documentary that journeys to the historically tumultuous city of Lodz, Poland. Here, a surprise reunion with a painting that hung in the same apartment for 75 world-altering years becomes a probing investigation into the power of memory, art, time and resilience. What follows is a deeply personal detective story rich with twists and turns. But, equally, the film is an ode to the lost generations of Jewish Lodz and a look at how fragile\u2014but also how incredibly necessary\u2014our relationship with the past is for creating the future. The Polish Cultural Institute New York was a media partner of the 2021 virtual screening in the US.\n\"Gr\u00fcnberg effectively incorporates archival photos and footage, drawings, and lyrical, illustrative bits of animation into this brief but rich documentary, which ends on a lovely note that brings Elbaum\u2019s journey full circle.\"\u2014Los Angeles Times\nSelected Press:The New York Times: \u2018Still Life in Lodz\u2019 Review: A Painting Becomes a WindowLos Angeles Times: Review: The documentary \u2018Still Life in Lodz\u2019 reveals the power of mementos and memoriesJewish Standard: \u2018Still life in Lodz\u2019\nIn Ellis Island A People's History book, Malgorzata Szejnert, arguably Poland\u2019s greatest living writer, provides a dramatic, multi-vocal account of the agonies and ecstasies that played out in the walls of Ellis Island. 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Among Polish accents during the festival there were three Polish productions and co-productions: Happiness of the World, directed by Michal Rosa and starring Karolina Gruszka; Polish-US documentary Who Will Write Our History, directed by Roberta Grossman, and Chasing Portraits, directed by Elizabeth Rynecki.\n\"Using newsreels, voice-overs and re-enactments, Roberta Grossman, the documentary\u2019s director, paints a comprehensive portrait of the times and of the risks taken by Ringelblum and his group. The staged scenes are well acted, while readings from diaries and letters are heartbreaking.\"\u2014Ken Jaworowski, The New York Times\nSelected Press:The New York Times: \u2018Who Will Write Our History\u2019 Review: A Vital Holocaust DocumentaryNPR: 'Who Will Write Our History': Documenting Those Who Documented The Warsaw GhettoDeadline: Discovery Acquires Global TV Rights To Warsaw Ghetto Documentary \u2018Who Will Write Our History\u2019\nIn 2018, United Solo Festival and the Polish Cultural Institute New York present the New York Premiere of The Auschwitz Volunteer: Captain Witold Pilecki, a monodrama directed and performed by Marek Probosz. In September of 1940, Pilecki volunteered for a secret mission for the Polish Underground to smuggle out intelligence about the new German concentration camp, and to organize inmate resistance with the goal of helping the Allies liberate the camp from the inside. The 39-year-old officer walked into a German Nazi street roundup in Warsaw to get himself arrested and sent to Auschwitz.\n\u201cIt\u2019s one of the most amazing stories to come out of World War II,\u201d said Terry Tegnazian, co-founder of Aquila Polonica, the publisher of Pilecki\u2019s autobiography and also a producer of the show. \u201cHis experience that he\u2019s written down gives the details and a view of what went on in Auschwitz even in the years before it became a death camp for the Jews. In \u201940 and \u201941, it was primarily a camp for Polish political prisoners and anybody the Germans thought capable of resisting them.\u201d\nSelected Links:United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: International Holocaust Remembrance DayBarnes &amp; Noble: The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery\nThe Jewish Presence and Absence in the Theater of Tadeusz Kantor, an Illustrated Lecture by David A. Goldfarb, was organized in 2015 by the Mid-Manhattan Library and the Dorot Jewish Division of the New York Public Library in cooperation with the Polish Cultural Institute New York. Tadeusz Kantor (1915-90), visual artist and theater director, played a key role in bringing the spirit and ideas of Poland's interwar avant-garde into the postwar era. His works for the theater began with underground stagings of the works of Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, known as \"Witkacy,\" and progressed toward international productions that would sell out New York's La Mama, E.T.C. during his own lifetime.\nSelected Links:Club Free TimeNowy Dziennik\nDuring the period from the end of World War ll (1945) until the fall of Communism in 1989, the Polish School of Posters became recognized as the best in contemporary poster art. Its artists created renowned theater, music, film, CYRK (circus), and Jewish cultural posters. JCC in San Francisco presents a rare local showing of these vintage art posters with Jewish themes; they are highly political and visually alluring. The Art of Polish Jewish Posters from the Contemporary Posters collection was organized in 2007 by Contemporary Posters, New York City based company specializing in the art of the Polish School of Posters.\nSelected Press:The Jewish News of North California: Arts\nThe world-renowned New Jewish Music quartet Brave Old World, whose music combines the soulfulness of Yiddish tradition, the finesse of classical music and the vitality of jazz, performed, in 2006, Song of the Lodz Ghetto, a unique new musical work interweaving Jewish folk music of prewar Poland, rare street songs created between 1940 and 1944 in the Lodz Ghetto during the German occupation, and Brave Old World's own arrangements and compositions. The performance offered a rare opportunity to enjoy soul-soaring, spirit-lifting Yiddishkayt that is simultaneously a universal testament to hope, redemption, and the determination of the human spirit to survive and sing. The concert was co-sponsored by the National Yiddish Book Center.\n\"...nothing less than brilliant, a recreation that is not merely respectful but stunningly inventive.\" - Jewish Week\nThis concert grabbed its listeners and wouldn't let go for a long time. The American quartet provoked storms of applause and blew away their audience in the sold-out hall. - Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung\nSelected Press:Tablet Magazine: Songs From the Ghetto\n***\nTHE POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE NEW YORK was founded in 2000. It is a diplomatic mission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, operating in the area of public diplomacy. The PCI is one of 24 such institutes around the world. It is also an active member of the network of the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) in its New York cluster.\nExplore the highlights of the 20+1 years of our work:\n\u2192 Music\u2192 Humanities\u2192 Visual Arts &amp; Design\u2192 Film &amp; Performing Arts\u2192 Polish-Jewish Programming\nThe Institute\u2019s mission is to share Polish heritage and contemporary art with American audiences, and to promote Poland\u2019s contributions to the success of world culture. The Institute does so through initiating, supporting and promoting collaboration between Poland and the United States in the areas of visual art, design, film, theater, dance, literature, music, and in many other aspects of intellectual and social life. The Institute\u2019s main task to ensure Polish participation in the programming of America\u2019s most important cultural institutions as well as in large international initiatives.\nThe Polish Cultural Institute New York works with renowned cultural and academic centers and opinion leaders operating on the American market. Its main partners include such prestigious organizations as Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Museum of Modern Art, PEN American Center, the Poetry Society of America, the National Gallery of Art, Yale University, Columbia University, Princeton University, the Harvard Film Archive, the CUNY Graduate Center, the Julliard School of Music, the New Museum, the Jewish Museum, La MaMa E.T.C. and many others. For more than fifteen years, it has presented Americans the achievements of outstanding Polish artists, including the filmmakers Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy Skolimowski; the writers Czeslaw Milosz, Adam Zagajewski and Wislawa Szymborska; the composers Krzysztof Penderecki, Witold Lutoslawski and Mikolaj Gorecki; theater artists Krystian Lupa, Jerzy Grotowski and Tadeusz Kantor; the visual artists Krzysztof Wodiczko, Katarzyna Kozyra, Alina Szapocznikow and many other important figures in the arts. 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