Jewish Encounters in the Coffehouse – Resource List

RESOURCES #TJHTalks11 Jewish Encounters in the Coffeehouse Guest Speakers:Professors Shachar Pinsker and Marci Shore Moderator: Edward Serotta Wednesday, January 13, 2021 BOOKS S.Y. Agnon, Only Yesterday S.Y. Agnon, To This Day Sholem Aleichem, The Letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl Aharon Appelfeld,  A Table for One: Under the Light of Jerusalem  Thomas Bernhard, Old Masters Elias Canetti, The […]

The Politics of History: Lucy S. Dawidowicz’s Journey from Left to Right

RESOURCES #TJHTalks10 The Politics of History: Lucy S. Dawidowicz’s Journey from Left to Right Guest Speakers:  Professor Nancy Sinkoff and Professor Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Wednesday, December 9, 2020 BOOKS Lucy Dawidowicz with Leon Goldstein, Politics in a Pluralist Democracy: Studies in Voting in the 1960 Election (1963) Lucy Dawidowicz, The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe (1967) Lucy […]

From Behind the Camera: Polish Jewish Narratives

From Behind the Camera: Polish Jewish Narratives Selected films directed by Agnieszka Holland Charlatan (2020) Gareth Jones (2019) Entanglement (2018) What’s Needed (2018) Separation (2018) Spoor (2017) In Darkness (2011) Do You Know What It Means (2010) Making Of (2010) Janosik: A True Story (2009) Lotto Fever (2009) React Quotes (2008) Justice (2007) Copying Beethoven […]

Helise Lieberman on Warsaw Ghetto Anniversary

Dear Friends: Today, at 12:00 noon, a siren sounded in Warsaw in commemoration of the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19, 1943, and in memory of all those who fought. The custom of a large gathering in front of the Ghetto Heros Monument unveiled in 1948, had been put on hold during […]

Netzer Australia 2019 study tour in Poland

Taube Jewish Heritage Tours co-organized a heritage tour in partnership with Netzer Australian madrichim and Progressive Community. The group of 16 students participated in a 10-day-long educational seminar in Germany and Poland. Led by Netzer Shaliach Sefi Shalam and co-organized by Natalia Czarkowska from Taube Jewish Heritage Tours, the seminar focused on European history, with visits […]

2020 Ride for the Living Warsaw pre-tour

Are you participating in the 7th annual Ride For The Living? Join Taube Jewish Heritage Tours and JCC Krakow on a special four-day tour ofWarsaw before the Ride! Explore the Phoenix City and its sites of Jewish history and heritage in depth through: ● Curator-led visits through the world-renowned POLIN Museum of the History of […]

DIS Autumn 2019 visit in Warsaw

Taube Jewish Heritage Tours is proud of its longstanding partnership with DIS Copenhagen. This October we co-organized second this year, Polish part of a study tour in partnership with DIS Copenhagen, called “Competing Narratives: Modern European History” – a study tour to Warsaw and Berlin. Twenty-two students, led by Prof. Brendan Sweeney, DIS Copenhagen Semester […]

Pasternack-Bardin family visit to Warsaw

Taube Jewish Heritage Tours had the pleasure of organizing a family tour for the Pasternack-Bardin family from the San Francisco Bay Area. Joanne Pasternack, was joined by her husband Robert Bardin, and their two children, Reid and Kira. 

Meet your chef for Sukkot

We, at Taube Jewish Heritage Tours, celebrate the value of limmud, the concept of teaching and –more importantly– learning from one another.We’re already preparing for the October celebrations of Sukkot and that’s why we would like to share a few facts about this special holiday.   Sukkot is a break from challenges and divisions; it’s a joyous […]

Tobolowsky family tour

During the past week we had the pleasure of organizing a heritage tour for 13 members of Tobolowsky family of the United States. These curious travellers came to trace their history in Tobołowo and other towns and cities in north-eastern Poland including, among others, Suwałki and Białystok. More Taube led travel in Warsaw and Kraków […]