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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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  • Jewish Writers

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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  • Jewish Cemeteries

Poland: Dobrynin to Rzochów

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 7, 2018December 11, 2018

Thursday, October 18, 2018 (continued):  In the early 1980s, I worked near a bookshop in…

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  • Jewish Cemeteries

Poland: Pilzno to Dąbie

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 6, 2018November 11, 2018

Thursday, October 18, 2018 (continued):  We leave Tarnów. Our destination is the Jewish cemetery in…

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  • Poland

Poland: Leiman Hunting in Tarnów

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 5, 2018November 7, 2022

Thursday, October 18, 2018: Today Beth and I, armed with a map and notes from…

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Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial

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

We decided not to bring the camera. We had carried it with us to every…

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