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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28.10.2025, 18.00

“Republika pobożnych. Chasydzka historia Polski” (“The Republic of the Pious. The Hasidic History of Poland”) – meeting with Dorota Bidzińska, author of the book

Led by: Jan Grabowski Dorota Bidzińska goes on a journey through Hasidic Poland – once a spiritual center of Europe, today a map of cemeteries and a bunch of almost forgotten stories. She visits places which were once marked by the presence of famous mystics, and searches for the traces of the most important leaders

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