Guest: Dr. Marek Tuszewicki
Led by: Ishbel Szatrawska

“Again they called me back from oblivion. They encouraged me to sink into it, to bring their real and rightful place. This time it is a poet, the talent of which was praised in the land across the Ocean, and a tsaddik who wanted to be as close to other human beings as to God. This is a story which connects a few centuries and cities, professors and a Nobel Prize winner, holy men and brave women, the worth of a word and the meaning of language. It proves, I hope, that this oblivion still has a lot of interesting and meaningful things to discover. It is important, therefore, to listen and to search, to see, and to try to understand.”

Rafał Kowalski – a Płock-based author, graduate of the Department of Journalism and Political Sciences of the University of Warsaw, a PhD in Political Science of the University of Warsaw, a researcher of the fates of Polish Jews. He is the director of the Museum of Mazovian Jews. In the past, he was working as a journalist for e.g. “Gazeta Wyborcza”. Author of such non-fiction books as: “Reszta ciała” (2020, awarded with the President of the City of Płock Prize in 2021), “Raz jeszcze. Żydzi, Płock, Polska” (2016, nomination for the Płock Person of the Year in 2016), “Płoccy wypędzeni. Marzec ’68” (2018), “Być dla kogoś. Hanna Witt-Paszta” (2018), “Szacun. Andrzej Marszałek” (2017, co-authored with Mariusz Piotrowski). He is the author of a script of a theater play titled “Czarne czereśnie” (2016, nomination for the Srebrne Maski Award in Płock). He is interested in non-fiction, American and Israeli literature, and theater. He is an avid soccer and handball fan, Wisła Płock and Manchester United especially.

In Polish. Free admission.