News Archive

Yale Reisner will talk to the author Silvia Foti and film maker Michael Kretzmer.

Join a discussion of the publication accompanying POLIN Museum’s temporary exhibition, "Around Us a Sea of Fire."

A meeting with Hanna Krall and Mariusz Szczygieł

Sonia Gollance will discuss her new book, "It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity," in conversation with Naomi Seidman and Sunny Yudkoff.

A course will create a space for exploring the city and cross-cultural meetings.

We invite you to the presentation of projects by 24 students from Norway, Germany, and Poland.

Ringing in the Jewish New Year on a sweet note, we will explore honey.

On the 79th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, we will meet Eyal Menashes Zuckerman who will reminisce about her grandparents.

Lee Slonimsky, a great grandnephew of Ḥayim Zelig Słonimski will explore the legacy of this astronomer, inventor, educator, and popularizer of science.

Elisabeth Szancer will explore the life and work of Jan Marcin Szancer.

We will listen to stories related to Jewish food and its links with the Dutch cuisine, including the famous “bolus” cake.

Visit with us one of the best places in Warsaw to buy natural products directly from the producers and farmers!

Elizabeth Rynecki will talk about her great-grandfather in conversation with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. They will explore the life and work of Moshe Rynecki, a talented painter of Jewish life in prewar Poland, who perished in the Holocaust.

At a meeting with the Chargé d'affaires of the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw, Mrs. Tal Ben Ari Yaalon, we talk about how Israel returns to normal, after winning the battle against coronavirus.

Mira Schor will explore the life and work Ilya Schor, a renowned painter, jeweler, book illustrator and artist of Judaica, and forerunner of the "Jewish style" in American art.

POLIN Reading Room discussion online