- Title Pages
- The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Editors and Advisers
- Preface
- Polin
- Polin
- Note on Place Names
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
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In Pre-War Poland The Badkhn: From Wedding Stage to Writing Desk - Remembrance of Things Past: Klezmer Musicians of Galicia, 1870‒1940
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Early Recordings of Jewish Music in Poland
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Jewish Theatre in Poland
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A Tuml in the Shtetl: Khayim Betsalel Grinberg’s Di khevre-kedishe sude
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Mordechai Gebirtig: The Folk Song and the Cabaret Song
- Simkhe Plakhte: From ‘Folklore’ to Literary Artefact
- Between Poland and Germany: Jewish Religious Practices in Illustrated Postcards of the Early Twentieth Century
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Papers for the Folk: Jewish Nationalism and the Birth of the Yiddish Press in Galicia
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Shund and the Tabloids: Jewish Popular Reading in Inter-War Poland
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Dos yidishe bukh alarmirt! Towards the History of Yiddish Reading in Inter-War Poland
- Exploiting Tradition: Religious Iconography in Cartoons of the Polish Yiddish Press
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After Life From ‘Madagaskar’ to Sachsenhausen: Singing about ‘Race’ in a Nazi Camp -
The Badkhn in Contemporary Hasidic Society: Social, Historical, and Musical Observations
- Transmigrations: Wolf Krakowski’s Yiddish Worldbeat in its Socio-Musical Context
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‘The Time of Vishniac’: Photographs of Pre-War East European Jewry in Post-War Contexts
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Repopulating Jewish Poland—in Wood
-
The Kraków Jewish Culture Festival
- Select Bibliography of Blejwas’s Works
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index
The Kraków Jewish Culture Festival
The Kraków Jewish Culture Festival
- Chapter:
- (p.357) The Kraków Jewish Culture Festival
- Source:
- Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 16
- Author(s):
Ruth Ellen Gruber
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter describes on the Kraków Festival of Jewish Culture, founded in 1988 by Jewish intellectuals Janusz Makuch and Krzysztof Gierat. The public embrace of Jewish culture in Poland had its roots in the anti-communist dissident movements of the 1960s and 1970s and developed steadily after the success of Solidarność in 1980 opened up new cultural and intellectual freedoms that were only partially stifled by the imposition of martial law in 1981. The pervasiveness of underground networks forced some relaxation of official strictures, too. Many taboos remained in place, but from the early 1980s on, with official sanction that at times verged on co-option, books on Jewish topics were published, research on Jewish subjects was carried out, and exhibitions, concerts, and performances on Jewish themes were held with increasing frequency. The Kraków festival was a milestone in this process and throughout the 1990s served as an important, continuing catalyst, changing and developing as overall conditions in post-communist Poland evolved.
Keywords: Kraków Festival of Jewish Culture, Janusz Makuch, Krzysztof Gierat, Jewish culture, Poland, post-communist Poland, Jewish topics, Jewish themes, cultural freedom, intellectual freedom
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- Title Pages
- The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Editors and Advisers
- Preface
- Polin
- Polin
- Note on Place Names
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
-
In Pre-War Poland The Badkhn: From Wedding Stage to Writing Desk - Remembrance of Things Past: Klezmer Musicians of Galicia, 1870‒1940
-
Early Recordings of Jewish Music in Poland
-
Jewish Theatre in Poland
-
A Tuml in the Shtetl: Khayim Betsalel Grinberg’s Di khevre-kedishe sude
-
Mordechai Gebirtig: The Folk Song and the Cabaret Song
- Simkhe Plakhte: From ‘Folklore’ to Literary Artefact
- Between Poland and Germany: Jewish Religious Practices in Illustrated Postcards of the Early Twentieth Century
-
Papers for the Folk: Jewish Nationalism and the Birth of the Yiddish Press in Galicia
-
Shund and the Tabloids: Jewish Popular Reading in Inter-War Poland
-
Dos yidishe bukh alarmirt! Towards the History of Yiddish Reading in Inter-War Poland
- Exploiting Tradition: Religious Iconography in Cartoons of the Polish Yiddish Press
-
After Life From ‘Madagaskar’ to Sachsenhausen: Singing about ‘Race’ in a Nazi Camp -
The Badkhn in Contemporary Hasidic Society: Social, Historical, and Musical Observations
- Transmigrations: Wolf Krakowski’s Yiddish Worldbeat in its Socio-Musical Context
-
‘The Time of Vishniac’: Photographs of Pre-War East European Jewry in Post-War Contexts
-
Repopulating Jewish Poland—in Wood
-
The Kraków Jewish Culture Festival
- Select Bibliography of Blejwas’s Works
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index
