I’m taking part in this panel discussion at the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival

Jewish places in Poland, almost moribund after the war, have become increasingly popular among tourists over the last two decades, and their past is becoming meaningful to their present residents. Their visage is highly differentiated, from fields of rubble built over with new structures as at the site of the former Jewish district in Warsaw, through extant streets with hardly any Jews in them, as in the case of Kazimierz in Krakow. In the first case there is a danger that the new identity of a place will replace the old, and in the second that the old will be transformed into a Disneyland fantasy. How to speak about these identities, and how to present them to residents and visitors?

The issue will be discussed by:

I’ll be taking part in a wide-ranging discussion with the anthropologist Annamaria Orla Bukowska, during the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival.

Public conversation with the musician Enrico Fink, director of cultural activities at the Jewish community of Florence, at weekly open-air event in the garden of the synagogue

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Ahavath Sholom synagogue

First of three talks sponsored by the Ft. Worth Jewish Federation

As the Shoah Survivors Disappear, Building to Remember in Europe Today

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Congregation Beth Shalom, Arlington

Ruth gives the Klatch Jewish Arts Series lecture