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He Would Not Leave Them Alone

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on June 30, 2019

From Wladyslaw Szpilman’s The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45: …

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  • Poland

Warsaw: Vegan Shawarma

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 25, 2018January 21, 2020

I have written in an earlier post about how enjoying indigenous cuisine is one of…

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  • Jewish Cemeteries

Warsaw: Final Leiman Hunt

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 24, 2018December 24, 2018

The Warsaw Jewish Cemetery on Okopowa Street contains over 250,000 graves that are marked. The…

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  • Jewish Cemeteries

A Wise and Humble Language

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 19, 2018January 21, 2020

Eleven U.S. citizens have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Bob Dylan won it most…

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  • Jewish Cemeteries

Warsaw: Leiman to Datner

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 17, 2018January 2, 2019

Wednesday, October 24, 2018 (continued): This is the second installment describing our visit to the…

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  • Jewish Cemeteries

Warsaw: Children and Fidelity

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 13, 2018December 18, 2018

There are several places in Jewish writings—biblical, and extra-biblical—where we are reminded of our obligations…

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  • Museums

Warsaw: Muzeum Chopina

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 10, 2018December 16, 2018

It is the late 60s or early 70s perhaps; I can’t remember exactly. I am…

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Poland: POLIN – Ought and Can

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 8, 2018December 9, 2018

Does knowing how something ends, a book, a movie, a life, for instance, affect our…

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  • Poland

Warsaw: Dinner and Davening

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 5, 2018December 10, 2018

“Galil” is a transliteration from the Hebrew of a word commonly used to refer to…

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  • Poland

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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