We are pleased to announce the call for applications for the second edition of the summer school program “Memory – Place – Presence”, coordinated by the ‘Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre’ Centre in cooperation with The University College of Enterprise and Administration in Lublin, Poland. The program will start on June 23, 2016, and will continue through July 3, 2016. This year, the program will accept up to twenty participants.

The summer school program is created for all those who want to experience and explore the lost Yiddishland and its fascinating history, the forgotten continent of shtetls and cities, the cradle of the Jewish diaspora, a source of inspiration for countless writers and artists, and a mute witness to the Holocaust.

The program offers a unique, complex 10-day seminar on the Jewish cultural heritage of the Lublin region – located in the heart of Yiddishland. We will focus on the following topics:

• The history of Polish Jews – an overview
• The history and specificity of the Jewish community in Lublin
• The heritage of the shtetls
• The linguistic pillars of local Jewish culture
• Jewish biographies of the 20th century
• The Holocaust in Lublin and the Lublin Region
• Memory work and education in Poland

We offer theoretical learning combined with practical activities that provide context for the place you will be learning about. The program includes a three-day study tour of the localities that played an important role in the Jewish history of the region and are well known from the literature of I.B. Singer and other Yiddish writers – towns such as Kazimierz Dolny, Zamość, Szczebrzeszyn, Józefów, Biłgoraj and others, as well as visits to the concentration camp museum at Majdanek and the death camp at Bełżec.

More about the program can be found on www.summerschool.teatrnn.pl

We invite you to pass on this information to students or professionals.

Complete applications should be e-mailed to: [email protected] by March 15, 2016. Should you have any questions about the application procedure or program, please feel free to contact us.