Museum exhibition on history of Polish Jews reopens in Warsaw

Warsaw’s Museum of the History of Polish Jews says it has reopened its core exhibition on a millennium of Polish-Jewish co-existence after a break due to the coronavirus.

Photo courtesy of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw;

M. Starowieyska/POLIN Museum

The exhibition, entitled 1000-Year History of Polish Jews, is a journey through 1,000 years in the history of Polish Jews from the Middle Ages to the present day, the museum has said.

It added that the display provides answers to questions about how the first Jews arrived Poland, how Poland became home to the world’s largest Jewish community, and “how Jewish life is being revived today.”

The museum says it aims to address “topics of cooperation, rivalry and conflicts” as well as “autonomy, integration and assimilation,” while also seeking to “confront thorny issues” in shared history.

For details go to the polin.pl website.

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Source: polin.pl