"Jewish Revival" in Poland

[Joe Peschio]

Back in 2002, the radio show "This American Life" did an amusing and 
thoughtful piece on the "Jewish Revival" in Krakow. It has some 
horrifying/funny audio from Krakow.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=942 Click on 
"Full Episode" for the free streaming audio.
> *Prologue.*
>
> Host Ira Glass talks with Erin Einhorn, a reporter for the 
> *Philadelphia Daily News*, who went to Poland to find the Catholic 
> family that had sheltered and saved her mother from the Nazi 
> concentration camps during World War II. She found that in Krakow 
> where she was living, in a country where Jewish populations had been 
> vilified and then exterminated by the Nazis, Judaism was suddenly 
> trendy. (6 minutes)
>
> *Act One. Pole Vault.*
>
> Ira's conversation with Erin Einhorn continues. She talks about the 
> possible reasons that, 50 years after Auschwitz, 10,000 Polish 
> hipsters will now show up to see a Klezmer music concert. (17 minutes)
>
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Joe Peschio, PhD
Assistant Professor of Russian and Coordinator, 
Slavic Languages Program and REES
Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI  53201-0413
Tel. 414-229-4949		Fax 414-229-2741



Date:    Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:37:56 -0400
From:    David Powelstock <pstock at BRANDEIS.EDU>
Subject: "Jewish Revival" in Poland

Dear SEELANGers,

Some of you may find this article from today's NY Times of interest. My =
wife tells me that she's heard of this phenomenon, but it was news to =
me.=20

Cheers,
David
David Powelstock=20
Asst. Prof. of Russian & East European Literatures=20
Chair, Program in Russian & East European Studies=20
Brandeis University=20
GRALL, MS 024=20
Waltham, MA  02454-9110=20
781.736.3347 (Office)=20

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