JCC events during The 20th Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow

During the 20th Jewish Culture Festival the Jewish Community Centre planned many events.

Among many other activities you will find Prelimud - a cycle of lectures on Jewish topics, opening of an exhibition by Hanna Kossowska, film screenings, meetings and discussions.

The program was created in cooperation with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and ZOOM - the Polish-Jewish Youth Organization.

June 27th  – Sunday

6:30pm Opening of the exhibition of works of Hanna Kossowska “Entries from the Records of the Forgotten Realm”

June 28th  – Monday

4:00pm [PRELIMUD] Patryk Pufelski – Eggs in an airplane –  mysteries of Israeli fauna [lecture in Polish]

June 29th  – Tuesday

4:00pm [PRELIMUD] Alicja Beryt – Jewish motifs in architecture [lecture in Polish]
5:30pm [PRELIMUD] Maria Weymayr – Holocaust themes in children's cartoons [lecture in Polish].

June 30th  – Wednesday

4:00pm [PRELIMUD] Joanna Grzesiak – „About Jews? Wow, fascinating!” – Why Jewish subjects are popular in Poland [lecture in Polish]

5:30pm “Choose Life!” The role of the Jewish Community Centre in Krakow’s Jewish revival. A discussion with JCC Krakow Director, Jonathan Ornstein.

July 1st  – Thursday

4:00pm [PRELIMUD] Sławomir Pastuszka –  Surviving  painted interiors of Polish Synagogues [lecture in Polish]

5:30pm “Life is Beautiful”. Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich and JCC Krakow Director, Jonathan Ornstein discuss present day Jewish life in Poland.

7:00pm – Kinoteatr Uciecha [ul. Starowiślna 16] [PRELIMUD]

8 stories that didn't change the world. [by Ivo Krankowski, Jan Śpiewak, Magda Grabowska, Jakub Rok] [movie in Polish with English subtitles]

Cataloguing [Paweł Łoziński] [movie in Polish with English subtitles]

Poland revisited. A discovery of heritage and legacy. [by Sarah Golabek-Goldman]
[movie in English with Polish subtitles]  

July 2nd  – Friday

4:00pm [PRELIMUD] Katarzyna Czerwonogóra – Jewish bordello – why Argentinian prostitutes are called 'Polacas' [lecture in English]
5:30pm [PRELIMUD] Jakub Rok – Jewish fair trade – fixing the world by shopping  [lecture in Polish]

9:00pm Shabbat Dinner at the JCC
Join Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich; Chief Rabbi of Galicia, Edgar Gluck; Chief Rabbi of Krakow, Boaz Pash; Jewish Cultural Festival Director, Janusz Makuch, and Festival performers along with the Jewish community for a festive, kosher dinner to benefit the Jewish Community Centre of Krakow.

Information: +48 12 370 57 70, office@jcckrakow.org

July 3rd  – Saturday

1:00pm [PRELIMUD] Iga Kazimierczyk – Intercultural education – facts and myths. [lecture in Polish]
2:30pm [PRELIMUD] Remigiusz Sosnowski – Israeli politics of immigration. [lecture in Polish]
2:30pm [PRELIMUD] Krzysztof Izdebski- Jews and Jewish congregations under Polish law [lecture in English]

July 4rd  – Sunday

12:00pm [PRELIMUD] Witold Wrzosiński – Klezmer gone astray [lecture in English]
1:30pm [PRELIMUD] Maciej Kirshenbaum – Jewish LGBT leaders – form Magnus Hirszfeld to Harvey Milk
[lecture in English]
1:30pm [PRELIMUD] Alicja Mroczkowska – How  social changes influence  Jewish cemeteries. [lecture in Polish]
3:00pm [PRELIMUD] Panel discussion with Jewish community leaders.