Shtetl Routes Network Incubator – Lublin
Between November 15 – 17, the Taube Center, in partnership with Brama Grodzka (Grodzka Gate) co-ran a special training program as part of the MDLDE, called Shtetl Routes Network Incubator – Lublin. As the program consisted of several sessions, part of them were led by Martu Eichelberger-Jankowska, MDLDE Project Coordinator and Helise Lieberman, Director, Taube […]
Workshop: Resistance and resilience
The Taube Center welcomed a group of Jewish students from the Golda Och Academy led by Rabbi Rob Kahn on February 27. Helise Lieberman took the students to see the critically-acclaimed exhibition “What We Couldn’t Shout Out to the World” at the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute and hosted a follow-up discussion, with Taube Center’s […]
European Days of Jewish Culture: Organizers’ meeting in Paris
The Taube Center, the Polish national coordinator for the European Days of Jewish Culture 2023, was represented in Paris by Director Helise Lieberman and Senior Project Manager Paweł Łukaszewicz. The speakers and workshops focused on transmitting Jewish memory, the theme of this year’s EDJC. Helise Lieberman, together with Andrei Kovacs, led a discussion entitled: “Can […]
Cooperation with the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies (Israel)
On January 15, Helise Lieberman met with students from the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies during their trip through Poland. The meeting, a long-held tradition, took place after the group‘s visit to the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews with an engaging conversation about historical contexts, the transmission of heritage, and Jewish life […]
“Shades of Heroism” Women’s Experiences of the Holocaust in The Ringelblum Archive
Resistance during the Holocaust took on many forms. Most of us are familiar with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 and the heroic sacrifice of Jewish men and women. But Jewish resistance also had a different, non-violent side. A good example of such efforts was the Ringelblum Archive and the Oneg Shabbat group.
MATZEVOT: DOORS TO THE PAST; PORTALS TO THE FUTURE
The importance of guarding and keeping heritage, no matter in what form, is a communal responsibility. Yesterday reminded me that it is also a personal one that is not mitigated over time.