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Warsaw: Trains and Memory

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 4, 2018December 4, 2018

Sunday, October 21, 2018: We take an Express InterCity Premium train from Kraków to Warsaw…

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  • Kraków

Kraków: The River Speaks Yiddish

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 28, 2018December 2, 2020

In the section on Poland in his book A Travel Guide to Jewish Europe, Ben…

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  • Kraków

Kraków: Our Polish Sabbath

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 26, 2018November 27, 2018

In the Symposium, Plato puts the following words in the mouth of Alcibiades: “Drunkards and…

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  • Kraków

Kraków: Boundary Rules

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 25, 2018December 2, 2018

From the moment that Beth and I decided to visit Poland, I began to think…

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  • Kraków

Kraków: Architecture of Holiness

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 23, 2018November 28, 2018

In his book, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, John Ruskin defines architecture as “the art…

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  • Kraków

Kraków: Jewish Ghosts

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 20, 2018November 20, 2018

What do you do with a synagogue building that can no longer function as a…

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  • Poland

Kraków: Menorahs and Showbread

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 18, 2018May 25, 2020

After entering Kraków in September 1939, the German invaders closed the synagogues and confiscated items…

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Poland: Old Things – אַלט זאכן

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 14, 2018November 25, 2018

My wife Beth and I live in Be’er Sheva, in the south of Israel. Many…

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  • Jewish Cemeteries

Poland: Ropczyce to Łańcut

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 12, 2018

Thursday, October 18, 2018 (continued): Israel Ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov (Master of the…

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  • Jewish Cemeteries

Poland: Mielec

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 8, 2018November 11, 2018

Thursday, October 18, 2018 (continued): One of our goals in Mielec (Me-ell-its) is to visit its…

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