8.11.2025, 18.00

TRAKL-TAT. The Georg Trakl All-Polish Poetry Contest 2025 – final gala of the 12th edition of the competition

“TRAKL-TAT. The Georg Trakl All-Polish Poetry Contest” is a competition for poets inspired by the works of the Austrian poet. Georg Trakl lived from 1887-1914 and died in Krakow, but historical context is important. 1914 is the year of the Great War. Thus, Georg Trakl became a symbol of a generational tragedy that affects the

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6.11.2025, 18.00

“Chasydzkie opowieści. Antologia” (“Hasidic Stories. An Anthology”) – a meeting with Dr. Wojciech Tworek, Dr. Marek Tuszewicki, and Prof. Marcin Wodziński

Led by: Dr. Karolina Koprowska Hasidism originated in the southeastern borderlands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth among a small group of Kabbalists and mystics, but soon became one of the largest religious movements among Eastern European Jews. Stories are one of the most important forms of Hassidic culture. This anthology, edited by Dr. Wojciech Tworek and

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30.10.2025, 17:30

A meeting with Prof. Irena Grudzińska-Gross, author of the book “Wielka karuzela. Życie Aleksandra Weissberga-Cybulskiego” (“The Great Carousel. The Life of Aleksander Weissberg-Cybulski”)

Led by: Dr. Jacek Stawiski A physicist, a Communist, a gambler, and a spy who fell victim to NKVD persecution whom Albert Einstein was trying to release from Stalin-era prisons. Handed over by the NKVD to the Gestapo, he was imprisoned in the Krakow Ghetto, from which he escaped and hid in Warsaw. This was

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