From Wladyslaw Szpilman’s The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45: …
Category: Warsaw
I have written in an earlier post about how enjoying indigenous cuisine is one of…
The Warsaw Jewish Cemetery on Okopowa Street contains over 250,000 graves that are marked. The…
Eleven U.S. citizens have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Bob Dylan won it most…
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 (continued): This is the second installment describing our visit to the…
There are several places in Jewish writings—biblical, and extra-biblical—where we are reminded of our obligations…
It is the late 60s or early 70s perhaps; I can’t remember exactly. I am…
Does knowing how something ends, a book, a movie, a life, for instance, affect our…
“Galil” is a transliteration from the Hebrew of a word commonly used to refer to…
Sunday, October 21, 2018: We take an Express InterCity Premium train from Kraków to Warsaw…
Gershon Ben-Avraham 