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FOCUS :: (post)JEWISH…Shtetl Opatów Through the Eyes of Mayer Kirshenblatt

31.05.2024 11:40
Radio Poland talks to Prof. Barbara Kirshenblatt, daughter of a Polish-Jewish painter, whose art collection about the life of Jews in Poland has kicked off at the POLIN Museum in Warsaw. 
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POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw has a new temporary exhibition titled "(post)JEWISH…Shtetl Opatów Through the Eyes of Mayer Kirshenblatt" which shows what the life of Jews in Poland was like before World War II.

What the audience will learn about? As the artist’s daughter and co-host of the newly opened display told Radio Poland, the art collection not only tells the story of shared Polish-Jewish history but also about the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. 

Hosted by: Ada Janiszewska