Interwar Poland News Today

There is an ample tradition of historical dramas set in Interwar Poland, but there’s rarely one made by a woman director. Anna Jadowska wants to fill in this gap with her new project, “Tethys Ocean,” which will be presented at Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Agora Crossroads Co-production Forum next week. The story unfolds in 1938, as …

Anna Jadowska's Tethys Ocean’ centers on a seven-year-old Polish girl, a servant in a mansion in the period between the world wars, who sees ghosts.

A memoir by an African American Jew tops the Jewish Book Council’s list of honorees for 2022.

Jewish Book Council hails book, which details US chef's career of fusing Jewish and African-American cooking, for its 'deep dives into theology, identity, and, of course, food'

“Koshersoul,” chef Michael W. Twitty’s memoir about Jewish and African-American culinary histories, bas been named the Jewish book of 2022.

Highlights from the Washington Post, Associated Press, New York Times and others.

The memory of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, who preserved the Polish nation and statehood, is simply being erased from history today, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said.

This was the socialism of the social-democratic Bund: Opposed to dictatorial Leninism-Stalinism, the Bund, had a democratic vision for a better world and carried on a courageous fight for the dignity and well-being of the Jewish working class.

Posted By Kali Cozyris on Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 8:00 AM If you’re kicking yourself because you missed Temple Beth El’s Yiddish Music Festival last year, don’t kvetch, it’s back! The Humboldt Jewish Music and Culture Festival, a celebration of Yiddish and Sephardic culture, music and cuisine, is happening Feb. 4-11 via Jewish music, such as local cellist Kira Weiss Sephardic musical event on Tuesday, Feb 11. Due to the pandemic, the festival i...