Meet Rut.
Rut knows everything about real life.

Unfortunately, adults still treat her like a kid. It’s true that she still wears children’s clothes and sleeps with a teddy bear. However, she knows how important it is to have one’s own room. One that’s completely yours. And that the worst thing is to sit in a car between your siblings’ car seats. She also knows quite a lot how it is to be the only Jewish person in her class. To celebrate New Year’s Eve in September and to die from boredom, while others eat their Christmas Eve dinners. How is it to have two birthdays a year, and to spend a whole eight days in a tent in the fall.

Rut is dreaming about having a rich relative who (as opposed to her mom) would definitely buy her the perfume she hopes to own. She also dreams of not being so shy. But most of all, she dreams of a lead role in the school play. Oh no! During the first rehearsal, she falls off her chair. From now on, she will have to conquer the world by playing the role of a fox.

We would like to invite you to a Krakow premiere of the book “Dziennik Rut” (“Rut’s Diary”) and to an interactive class, during which the children will get to know Jewish culture and religion.

Miriam (Maria) Synger – Jewish, Polish, a patriot, a mother of five children, a feminist, a strong and sensitive woman. A daughter of a writer, a granddaughter of a writer, and a great-granddaughter of a writer. Author of the bestselling book “Jestem Żydówką”, in which she explains Jewish tradition, culture, customs, and the daily life of a Jewish family in Poland. “Dziennik Rut” is her first children’s book.

In Polish. Free admission.

This event is part of the project “20 for 20. A Series of Meetings with 20 Authors for the Galicia Jewish Museum 20th Anniversary”. The project was financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland from the Fund for Promoting Culture.