Main theme of the anniversary edition of the Jewish Culture Festival will be ‘Quarter’ – Jewish Quarter. This topic has become not only an inspiration to create a visual identity of the festival, but also to create a real quarter – Festival Quarter, which would perform various social, cultural and educational functions for inhabitants of Kazimierz
Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York, declared June 11th, 2015 Sigmund Rolat Day in New York City. This is a great honor and appreciation for our dear friend, donor and philanthrophist. Sigmund A. Rolat is one of the greatest Jewish philathrophers supporting development of Jewish life in Poland. For many years he has been
Our dear friends, members of our sister-organization Friends of the Cracow Jewish Culture Festival in Philadelphia, have been awarded by Jacek Majchrowski, Mayor of Krakow with the medal Honoris Gratia. Sigmund A. Rolat, Leon and Sandy Kopyt, Susan and Mark Hofkin, Michael Sztejnberg as well as Frank London will receive their medals from Magdalena Sroka,
Bronisław Komorowski, President of the Republic of Poland took the Honorary Patronage over the 25th anniversary edition of the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow. “Mr. President wants to appreciate this special anniversary edition of the festival. This patronage is also a mean of appreciation to all the organizers, who over so many years made the
In 2013 Pil Peled created at Wawrzynca Street in Krakow’s Kazimierz first festival mural, called Judah. One year later, just few houses away from the first one, Israeli collective Broken Fingaz created second wall painting inspired by the art of Maurice Lillien. These murals are not only to decorate Kazimierz. They are first of all
Hanu Tree is the initiative of our volunteers, that became reality thanks to the cooperation with MiPolin – Helena Czernek and Aleksander Prugar, who are leaders in contemporary Jewish design in Poland. One of the trees in Krakow’s Kazimierz was decorated with the symbols of the Hanukkah, as well as with the toys related to the