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Dear all, In the context of the current Coronavirus outbreak the Center for Jewish Culture and Education will be temporarily closed until further notice. We will be reviewing these dates as the situation unfold. In matters concerning Center and all events organizing by us please email us. Hoping to see…

Wrocław University of Science and Technology and the Bente Kahan Foundation are to hold a scientific seminar on November 6-7 entitled: “The Silesian Synagogues: A Thousand Years of History Which Died in One Night”. The event will comprise two discussion panels (one historical and one dedicated to Silesian synagogues) and…

Days of Mutual Respect November 3-14, 2019   03.11 (Sunday) 11:00 – The Way of Sound, the Way of Silence – alternative workshop incorporating elements of psychology, music, exercise and meditation with Jacek Ostaszewski  Prize: 100 PLN, registration required, contact: bilety@fbk.org.pl   04.11 (Monday)  17:00 – official inauguration of the…

As a part of the international project “Parallel Traces: a new lens on Jewish Heritage” we asked prominent photographer Agnieszka Traczewska to take pictures of the Jewish Wrocław. Her works can already be found on the website of the Parallel Traces project, along with the works of four other photographers…

From May 12th to July 30th we invite you to the special exhibition Jerozolima Utrwalona (Jerusalem in Photographs). The exhibition shows photographies from the huge collection of the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem – the oldest catholic college in Jerusalem, founded by Dominicans in 1890. Unique pictures, most…

The Bente Kahan Foundation invites you to the restored mikveh (ritual bath) and the basement in the White Stork Synagoge.   In the mikveh you can see the application Jewish Lifecycle. In the basement there is an multimedia exhibition Unfinished Lives.   From April 1st, the mikveh and the basement…

Days of Mutual Respect 2018 Center for Jewish Culture and Education at the White Stork Synagogue, Włodkowica 5a, Wrocław November 7, Wednesday 6 p.m. – Opening of the exhibition “Jewish Woman’s Identity”  (Days of Jewish Heritage in Wrocław) Co- financed by the Office of the Marshall of Lower SilesiaNovember 8,…