Gazeta Spring 2020 Main Market Square in Kraków During the Pandemic
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Volume 27, No. 1 Gazeta Spring 2020 Main Market Square in Kraków during the pandemic. Photograph by Edyta Gawron. Used with permission. A quarterly publication of the American Association for Polish-Jewish Studies and Taube Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture Editorial & Design: Tressa Berman, Fay Bussgang, Julian Bussgang, Shana Penn, Antony Polonsky, Aleksandra Sajdak, Adam Schorin, William Zeisel, LaserCom Design, and Taube Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland Foundation. CONTENTS Message from Irene Pipes ............................................................................................... 1 Message from Tad Taube and Shana Penn ................................................................... 2 SPECIAL REPORTS Academia during the Pandemic Edyta Gawron ........................................................................................................................ 3 Zygmunt Stępiński Is New Director of POLIN Museum Antony Polonsky .................................................................................................................... 5 Statement of New Director of POLIN Museum ............................................................... 9 SPECIAL FEATURES IN RESPONSE TO SHELTERING-AT-HOME Sunday Potatoes! Monday Potatoes! ............................................................................ 10 COOKING IN CONTAINMENT Jewish Food Is Grounding, Especially Now Jeffrey Yoskowitz ............................................................................................................ 12 Quarantine Cooking Tips from Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett .............................. 17 Celia Ores on Pierogi and Horseradish ................................................................... 19 From Kasia Leonardi’s Kitchen ................................................................................. 20 Essential Kneads from the Kitchen of Sharon Bernstein ........................................ 22 Historians Cooking the Past ...................................................................................... 24 Things to Do While Sheltering-at-Home: Online Cultural Resources ......................... 25 EXHIBITIONS AND MUSEUMS In Real Times. Arthur Szyk: Art and Human Rights at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life Francesco Spagnolo ............................................................................................................ 27 Cities of Peace Illuminated at the Galicia Jewish Museum ......................................... 31 #GaliciaOnline Jakub Nowakowski .............................................................................................................. 32 POLIN Museum at a Distance Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett ............................................................................................... 36 II n GAZETA VOLUME 27, NO. 1 REPORTS Commemorating Thirty Years of the Jewish Culture Festival Letter from the Director, Janusz Makuch .......................................................... 40 The Jewish Culture Festival through Photographs ............................................ 41 One Thousand Stories About Yiddish Language and Culture: Wexler Oral History Project at the Yiddish Book Center Christa P. Whitney ................................................................................................................ 43 The Great Synagogue of Oświęcim Maciek Zabierowski ............................................................................................................. 45 FestivALT Moves Online Adam Schorin ..................................................................................................................... 47 ANNOUNCEMENTS BOOKS Anti-Jewish Pogroms on Polish Lands in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Pogromy Żydów na ziemiach polskich w XIX i XX wieku) Antony Polonsky ............................................................................................................. 49 Chasydyzm. Źródła, Metody, Perspektywy, the Polish-Language Version of Studying Hasidism. Sources, Methods, Perspectives. Edited by Marcin Wodziński ..................................................................................... 50 Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture. By Mariusz Kałczewiak ................... 51 Voices from the Białystok Ghetto. By Michael Nevins ............................................ 52 Autobiography. Literature. Culture. Media: A Journal of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Szczecin by By Inga Iwasiόw and Jerzy Madejski ................................................................. 53 Theodore Bikel’s The City of Light. By Aimee Ginsburg Bikel with Illustrations by Noah Phillips ..................................................................................... 54 Strażnicy Fatum (Guardians of Fate). By Bożena Keff ............................................ 55 From Left to Right. Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The New York Intellectuals and the Politics of Jewish History. By Nancy Sinkoff ..................................................... 56 The King of Warsaw. By Szczepan Twardoch ......................................................... 57 GAZETA SPRING 2020 n III HONORS AND AWARDS National Jewish Book Council 2019 Awards ........................................................... 58 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry for Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania. By Adam Mickiewicz, translated by Bill Johnston ............................. 59 Museum Worlds Honors Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Editors: Sandra Dudley and Conal McCarthy ......................................................... 60 Devilspel Wins Literary Prize ..................................................................................... 61 POLIN Award 2019 to Natalia Bartczak ................................................................... 62 CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS Conference at the Polish Embassy in London to Launch POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 32 Antony Polonsky ............................................................................................................. 63 Biographies and Politics: Involvement of Jews and People of Jewish Origin in Leftist Movements in 19th and 20th Century Poland Antony Polonsky ............................................................................................................. 65 IN BRIEF Newly Released on Amazon: Raise the Roof by Filmmakers Yari and Cary Wolinsky .................................................................... 68 Midrasz Closes Its Doors Editorial Board of Midrasz ............................................................................................... 69 Contemporary Jewish Art and Artists in Poland Fay Bussgang ................................................................................................................ 71 OBITUARIES Krzysztof Penderecki Antony Polonsky .................................................................................................................. 73 Mikhl Baran Samuel Norich ..................................................................................................................... 77 Walentyna Janta-Połczyńska Antony Polonsky ................................................................................................................. 78 Jerzy E. Główczewski Julian Bussgang .................................................................................................................. 80 Dr. Łucja Pawlicka-Nowak Jewish Heritage Europe ........................................................................................................ 81 IV n GAZETA VOLUME 27, NO. 1 President, American Association Message from for Polish-Jewish Studies Irene Pipes Founder of Gazeta Dear Friends, Greetings from Cambridge, where I am waiting out the pandemic. I hope you are comfortable and safe in this unprecedented situation. As this issue of Gazeta shows, we are determined to carry on our important work in spite of the difficulties created by the COVID-19 virus. We congratulate Zygmunt Stępiński on his appointment as director of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. We are glad that the long-running dispute over the directorship has been brought to an end and look forward to its future flourishing. We are very impressed that the Irene Pipes museum has used the resources of the Internet to continue its activities while it is forced to close to the public. We welcome the publication of volume 32 of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, which has as its theme “Jews and Music-Making on the Polish Lands.” It deals with an important theme and is divided into five sections, Cantorial and Religious Music, Jews in Polish Popular Culture, Jews in the Polish Classical Musical Scene, The Holocaust Reflected in Jewish Music, and Klezmer in Poland Today. Preparations for volume 33 are well underway and we look forward to its publication. We hope you will find some comfort in the resources our editors and contributors have collected for this special issue, and that the crisis will soon be over so that we can resume normal activity. With best wishes, Irene Pipes President GAZETA SPRING 2020 n 1 Message from Chairman and Executive Director, Tad Taube and Taube Foundation for Jewish Life Shana Penn & Culture This issue of Gazeta differs considerably from the one we planned. When we began working on it in early February, COVID-19 was rampaging in faraway China, on the periphery of our awareness in the United