Life is what interests us — its astonishing capacity for rebirth and flourishing anew. The Festival is an unending celebration of Jewish life.
Cracow, Kazimierz—the symbol after the war of Jewish absence, it has again become a place of Jewish presence. The mirror of the Festival reflects the diverse beauty of Jewish culture, the richness of life, and the profundity of religion.
Our attitude toward Tradition is respectful—but we are not confined exclusively to Tradition. We pay tribute to the past while thinking unceasingly about the future.
We live here and now in a dynamically changing real world. We show those changes the moment they occur. Today's orthodoxy was yesterday's heresy. We are contemporary heretics—hungry for what was, what is, and what shall be.
We don't care about applause or pandering to fashion. All we care about is the standard of artistic truth. Authenticity. Our festival is the most old-school, radical, avant-garde festival of Jewish culture in the world!
We never have been and never will be a klezmer festival! We are a festival of diverse worlds: the worlds of Ashkenazy, Sephardic, Oriental, and finally of Israeli culture. Our spiritual capital is Yerushaláyim and the center of all these worlds is the Land of Israel.
Only life can reconcile memory with the future.
The Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow is a festival of life.
Janusz Makuch
Director, Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow
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| Abraham Inc. (USA), Shalom on Szeroka Street, 2011, photo: P. Mazur |
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