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
A cultural morning with Arieh Golan and Yossi Kantz
You are invited to an engaging morning at the Polish Institute’s library with a journalist Arieh Golan, who will host Yossi Kantz — a cultural figure, photographer, actor with an extraordinary life story
17
10.2025
History
Open call for the Best History Book in the foreign-language devoted to the history of Poland
A competition for the Best History Book in the foreign-language publication category on the history of Poland released in 2023 and 2024
15
05.2025
31
08.2025
History, News
Julia Pirotte at ANU Museum
20/20 – Her Own Lens, a new exhibition at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People brings together pioneering women photographers and leading contemporary women photographers, among them a famous Jewish-Polish photographer Julia Pirotte
04
06.2025
History, Visual arts
Artur Szyk in Jerusalem
We invite you to a unique exhibition devoted to Artur Szyk - a Polish-Jewish artist and his work at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem
04
05.2025
History, Visual arts