Registration to the accompanying events of the 34th Jewish Culture Festival

Please remember to bring a valid photo ID when attending events at JCC Krakow, as it will be required upon entry.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25th

9:30 Lomir Redn Yiddish

10:00 Between Past and Present – Study session with Rabbi Tomer Rehovi and Rebbetzin

14:00 Jewish Theater in Kazimierz Before the Second World War

15:00 Kites of Hope and Renewal – an exhibition of works by Michal Nachmany

16:00 Hate Is Not an Opinion. Antisemitism in the Past and the Present – an image analytics workshop

17:00 Daily Life in Oppidum Iudaeorum (A Jewish City)

18:00 Kazimierz with Bagel JCC

18:00 Kuzmir / Kazimierz: Between Life and Trauma

THURSDAY, JUNE 26th

9:30 Lomir Redn Yiddish

10:00 Between Past and Present – Study session with Rabbi Tomer Rehovi and Rebbetzin

12:00 Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity

14:00 The Signboards Which Speak. The Names That Are Left

14:00 Meshugoim. A Meeting with JCC Krakow Volunteers

16:00 From Auschwitz to Oasis: How Poland’s Jewish Community Went From Victimhood to Rebirth to Caregiver in 80 Years 

17:00 Jews in Kazimierz: Stereotypes, Lies, and Myths

17:00 Tickets: 30 PLN per person Kuzmir on a Plate

17:00 Kazimierz with Bagel JCC

18:00 Breakers of Barriers. The Voices of Yiddish Female Poets

FRIDAY, JUNE 27th

9:30 Lomir Redn Yiddish

10:00 Returns to Kazimierz in the Memoirs of Krakow’s Jews

10:30 Telling Untold Stories

12:00 Krakow’s Jews: On the Directions of the Latest Research

12:00 Sugihara’s List: How a Japanese Man Saved Thousands of Polish Jews

21:00 Tickets: $100 / 400 PLN The JCC Krakow Big Shabbat Dinner During Ride For The Living Registration required by June 25th: rsvp@jcckrakow.org

SATURDAY, JUNE 28th

9:30 Deep Listening to the Streets of Kazimierz

11:30 One in Six Million

14:00 Latkes vs Hamantaschen

SUNDAY, JUNE 29th

9:30 The unknown synagogues of Kazimierz

11:00 Memories of a Neighborhood That Was and Is No More

12:00 People of Kazimierz

15:30 Sh’ma: A Story of Survival

18:00 Eva Moses Kor and Her Story

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25th

11.00 Kazimierz – The City, the District, the People, Bartosz Wencel

TURSDAY, JUNE 26th

11.00 Guided tour through the exhibition: “Traces of Memory”, Dr. Katarzyna Suszkiewicz

15.00 Henryk Reiss Must Cease to Exist – guided tour led by the exhibition curator and family member of Henryk Reiss, Tomasz Strug, Miriam Levy

FRIDAY, JUNE 27th

11.00 Henryk Reiss Must Cease to Exist – curatorial guided tour, Tomasz Strug

16.00 Kazimierz – The City, the District, the People, Bartosz Wencel

19.00 Kabbalat Shabbat. Progressive Shabbat service

SATURDAY, JUNE 28th

10.00 KEF Means Fun!, Jessica Szczepańska

10.00 Guided tour through the exhibition “10 Polish Cities – 10 Jewish Stories” and a city tour through the district of Kazimierz “, In the Footsteps of Teofila Silberring”, Viktoriia Mudrytska

12.00 Israel 2025: Politics, Society, Economy – Dr. Agnieszka Bryc, Prof. Jarosław Jarząbek,  Prof. Maciej Tomal, led by: Dr. Ewa Węgrzyn

SUNDAY, JUNE 29th

10.00 Israel: The State and Its Society After More Than 20 Months of War, Yaakov Finkelstein, led by: Dr. Jacek Stawiski