Polish film at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival
The film “Cywia and Rachel” by Rafaël Lewandowski, which explores the lives of Rachel Auerbach and Cywia Lubetkin and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, will participate this year in the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival. The festival will focus on Jewish identity and culture and will present dozens of films and special events during the Hanukkah holiday.
13
12.2025
18
12.2025
Film, History
The Polish Story of Tel Aviv – Hanukkah Tours on Allenby Street
Two holiday tours will introduce participants to the places, figures, and stories that reveal how the Jewish community from Poland influenced the development of Tel Aviv and helped shape the State of Israel in its early years.
19
12.2025
20
12.2025
History, Tourism
An App in Memory of Alex Dancyg
קמפיין חברתי וגיוס המונים למען קידום האפליקציה המשמרת את מורשתו שתשמר את מורשתו ודרכו של אלכס דנציג ז"ל - היסטוריון ומחנך.
01
01.1970
History, News
Author Talk with Anna Bikont
An in-depth event with Anna Bikont, award-winning writer and journalist, on documenting the history and memory of Polish Jewry.
14
11.2025
History, Literature
Following Gimpel the Fool – an Israeli filmmaker returns to Poland
Encounters with actor and director Howard Rypp and screenings of his documentary film inspired by the character of Gimpel the Fool from a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer – a personal journey following the Yiddish writer and Nobel Prize laureate.
27
11.2025
Film, History
The international festival DROGA DŌ rediscovers the “Sugihara List” – the untold history of a rescue journey that began in Japan
During World War II, Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese Vice-Consul in Lithuania, issued transit visas to Japan for thousands of Jews, paving their escape route and saving their lives. Eighty-five years later, the international festival DROGA DŌ seeks to retrace that path – through music, video, artistic creation, and collaborations between artists from Israel, Japan, Poland, and Lithuania
20
09.2025
History, Music, Visual arts
Poland and Israel meet on one canvas – lecture by Jonathan Hirschfeld
A lecture by the artist, curator, and writer Jonathan Hirschfeld, who will lead the audience on a visual and intellectual journey through Jewish and Israeli art and explore the influence of Polish art and culture on their creations
12
09.2025
History, Visual arts
Event with Zofia Hartman — the author of “Sugihara’s List”
A lecture by Zofia Hartman, author of the book "Sugihara’s List", which explores the story of the visas issued by Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese Vice-Consul in Lithuania, that saved the lives of thousands of Jews during World War II
19
09.2025
History
Lecture devoted to the history of the Jewish community in Chełm
We invite to a lecture by the Head of the Organization of Former Residents of Chełm, Shlomit Beck, alongside an exhibition of drawings and sketches by the Polish artist and historian Dr. Adam Puławski
04
07.2025
History