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“The Great Women of Galicia, or From Lviv to Vienna” – film screening
“The Great Women of Galicia, or From Lviv to Vienna” – film screening Dir. Piotr Szalsza, 2019 Stories of prominent women, who at the turn of the 19th and 20th century in Lviv and other cities of Eastern Galicia succeeded in their careers in such fields like music, theater, film, philosophy, psychology, pedagogy, medicine, and […]
Helena Rubinstein’s Krakow – themed guided tour
Born in the 1870s, Chaya Rubinstein, a daughter of a not very wealthy oil trader, lived in the Krakow’s district of Kazimierz, took care of her younger siblings, and helped her father with business. In these times, worldwide fame and her cosmetics empire didn’t even cross her mind. What did the Krakow of her childhood […]
Weekend with Helena Rubinstein
We would like to invite you to weekend guided tours of the exhibition “Helena Rubinstein: First Lady of Beauty”. Entrance tickets to the museum will be sold at a discounted price of 10 PLN. Also, free of charge curatorial guided tours will take place on Sunday, October 30th at 11 am. Guided tours – space […]
Film screening: “Bogdan’s Journey”
Film screening: “Bogdan’s Journey” dir. Michał Jaskulski, Lawrence Loewinger, 2016 At 7/9 Planty Street in Kielce, there is a two-story, relatively small house. Right after the war, it was the site of the Jewish Committee, in which a few dozen Holocaust Survivors found refuge. On July 4th, 1946, the citizens of Kielce, prompted by gossip […]
“Helena Rubinstein. First Lady of Beauty” – exhibition opening
We would like to invite you to the opening of a new temporary exhibition at the Galicia Jewish Museum, which will be devoted to the life of Helena Rubinstein, a renowned entrepreneur, one of the most intriguing personas of the 20th century, who in a few decades of her career built a worldwide cosmetics empire. […]
Family Sunday: meeting, art workshop, and a pre-premiere presentation of a book
Come and join us for a meeting and art workshop with Ela Wasiuczyńska, a painter and illustrator, and a pre-premiere meeting with the latest volume of the book “Pan Kuleczka. Niespodzianki” by Wojciech Widłak. During the meeting we will look at some original prints of “Pan Kuleczka”, a bestselling Polish children’s book, and we will […]
Exhibition opening “Glimpses Into Antisemitism”
Gallery on ground floor at the High Synagogue, ul. Józefa 38 The exhibition was created as part of the international project HANNAH – Challenging and Debunking Antisemitic Myths, implemented by organizations from Germany, Poland, Greece and Serbia. It presents short biographies of representatives of Jewish communities from these four countries and quotes from interviews conducted […]
A meeting with Philippe Sands, author of the book “The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive”
Led by: Monika Ochędowska In cooperation with the Jagiellonian University Publishing House, we would like to invite you to a meeting with Philippe Sands, author of the book “The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive”. As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadeführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority […]
Senior’s Weekend with Culture
On October 1st and 2nd, the program “Senior’s Weekend with Culture” will take place – it is a project initiated by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. It will take place in all of Poland. The aim of the project is to encourage seniors to actively participate in cultural life. This year’s edition will […]
