“GALICIANER SHTETL” – Jews of Galicia Remembrance Days in Tarnów
JUNE 11 (Thursday):
12:00 Prayer in Zbylitowska Gora, at the mass grave of Tarnow Jews, with the participation of a Rabbi and a Catholic priest. Location: Zbylitowska Gora.
18:00 Screening of Simon Target’s award winning documentary film, A Town Called Brzostek , about the renovation of the Jewish cemetery in Brzostek near Tarnow. Location: Solskiego Theatre, Tarnow.
21.00 Music concert at the Bimah, Eliezer Mizrachi will perform a one of a kind concert of Jewish traditional and folklore music. Location: the Bimah, Tarnow.
JUNE 12 (Friday):
13:30 Commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the first transport of prisoners from Tarnow to KL Auschwitz in June 1940. Location: The Monument of the First Transportation to KL Auschwitz, Tarnow.
Evening Shabbat Program organized for friends & interested parties by David Singer, Bobover Hasidic Jew from New York. The President of Tarnow, Roman Ciepiela, will attend.
JUNE 13 (Saturday):
Ca 08:00 Shabbat Morning Prayer – Shacharit at the Bima [including the reading of the Torah].
15:00 – 18:00 Jewish Street project. The work of young volunteers will be exhibited.
21:00 Music concert at the Bimah featuring Klezmafour. Also on the concert program are performances by local musicians. Location: the Bimah, Tarnow.
22:15 Havdala services marking the end of the Sabbath will take place at the Bimah with Reb David Singer. Location: the Bimah, Tarnow.
JUNE 14 (Sunday):
11:00 – 13:00 Jewish cemetery guided tours. Tarnow’s Jewish cemetery is one of the biggest and most interesting Jewish graveyards in Southern Poland. Location: Jewish Cemetery, Tarnow.
JUNE 16 (Tuesday):
18:00 “Księga Dębicy/The Book of Debica” – meeting with authors Ireneusz Socha and Arkadiusz Więch. Location: BWA Art Gallery, Słowackiego Street, Tarnow.
19:00 “Yorcait. Hasidim Pilgrimages” – opening of photo exhibition of Michał Gąciarz. Location: BWA Art Gallery, Słowackiego Street, Tarnow.
JUNE 18 (Thursday):
19:00 “Beyond the Forest. Jewish Presence in Eastern Europe 2004-2012” – opening of photo exhibition of Lola Kantor (Israel).
21:00 Music concert at the Bimah featuring Magda Brudzińska & Klezmer Trio. Location: the Bimah, Tarnow.
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