Polish Jewry

Nearly 60 Years Ago, a Polish Journalist Wrote a Familiar-Sounding Attack on Anti-Zionism

Anti-Semitism, thinly disguised.

Wiesław Górnicki and Philip Earl Steele
Jan. 22 2025 12:01AM

Unraveling the Riddles of Bruno Schulz in War-Torn Ukraine

A visit to Drohobych.

Edward Serotta
July 15 2024 12:01AM

A Jew Joins a Yiddish Class in De-Judaized Poland

The only pharaoh in the room.

Thaïs Miller
June 25 2024 12:01AM

A German Soldier’s Collection of Looted Postcards Makes Its Way to Its Rightful Owners

Fragments from the Lublin yeshiva.

Shira Li Bartov
May 2 2024 12:01AM

How a Fake Jewish Countess Saved Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust

Janina Spinner Mehlberg.

Shira Li Bartov
Feb. 28 2024 12:01AM

The 18th-Century Jewish Wine Merchant, Intellectual, and Polyglot Who Defended His Coreligionists against the Blood Libel

Ber of Bolechów.

Gershon Hundert
Nov. 8 2023 12:01AM

Two Anti-Semitic Tyrants and One Jewish Family

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad.

Robert Philpot
Aug. 30 2023 12:01AM

Polish Jewry’s Not-So-Golden Age

On the edge of the abyss.

David Engel
July 28 2023 12:01AM

The Polish-Jewish Writer Who Made a Mural for a Nazi’s Children

Two new books shed light on Bruno Schulz, and his final work.

Boris Dralyuk
May 11 2023 12:01AM

Inside a T’filin Factory in Modern Krakow

A photo essay.

Agnieszka Traczewska and Shai Secunda
May 10 2023 12:01AM

A 17th-Century Mikveh Is Discovered Near Auschwitz

The only one of its kind in Europe.

Shiryn Ghermezian
March 16 2023 12:01AM

A Treasure Trove of Judaica, Buried under a Polish City

Including a menorah that was lit again last month.

Times of Israel
Jan. 11 2023 12:01AM

A New Film Documents Communist Poland’s Expulsion of Its Jews

March 1968.

Tom Sawicki
Jan. 4 2023 12:01AM

The Mystery of a Polish Yeshiva’s Found Jewish Books

What if thousands of texts weren’t burned during the Holocaust?

Piotr Nazaruk
Sept. 14 2022 12:01AM
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