Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow 

Hour

4:00 p.m.
 

Following the Footsteps of Ruben Silber, a Polish tour of Kazimierz district.

Starting point at High Synagogue (Synagoga Wysoka), 38 Jozefa street

8:30 p.m.

Musical Shabbat in Galicia Jewish Museum in Polish, English, and Hebrew, led by Rabbi Tanya Segal, first woman rabbi in Poland (admission 20 PLN).

Galicia Jewish Museum, 18 Dajwor street

8:00 p.m.

Israel’s band, The Apples, performs funky and groove jazz (admission 30 PLN). 

Boat Marta moored by Most Grunwaldzki bridge. 

11:00 p.m.

DJ party with Jewish tunes (free admission). 

Alchemia club, 5 Estery street at Plac Nowy square

Hour

9:00 a.m.

Jewish Krakow, a tour in Polish (fee 30 PLN).

Starting point at High Synagogue (Synagoga Wysoka), 38 Jozefa street

10:00 a.m.
 

Yiddish Culture in Pre-war Paris - a seminar.

Galicia Jewish Museum, 18 Dajwor street.

noon

Julian Tuwim, a Polish happening for children and teens (admission 10 PLN). 

Popper Synagogue, 
16 Szeroka street

1:00 p.m.

Jewish Krakow, a tour in English (fee 30 PLN).

Starting point at High Synagogue (Synagoga Wysoka), 38 Jozefa street

1:30 p.m

Walk in the Former Jewish Ghetto of Krakow, tour in Polish. 

Starting point at Under Eagle Pharmacy (Apteka Pod Orlem) on the Plac Bohaterow Getta square.

3:00 p.m.

Film screening - “Mea Yeladim Sheli”, directors Amalia Margolin and Oshra Schwartz (free admission).  

Galicia Jewish Museum, 18 Dajwor street.

3:00 p.m.

Foreign Eye, Kazimierz from a Traveler Viewpoint - a tour in Polish (fee 30 PLN).

Starting point at High Synagogue (Synagoga Wysoka), 38 Jozefa street

8:00 p.m.

Musical sailing on Wisla river, a concert of Israel's Monti Fiori (admission 70 PLN).

Boat Sobieski moored between Most Debnicki bridge and the Wawel Castle

8:30 p.m.

Nigun Jam. a music workshop, followed by Hawdali ceremony led by rabbi Tanya Segal (admission 70 PLN).  

Galicia Jewish Museum, 18 Dajwor street.

10:00 p.m.

DJ party with Jewish tunes. 

Alchemia club, 5 Estery street at Plac Nowy square

10:30 p.m.

Melaveh Malkah, a joyous ceremony at the end of the Shabbat (free admission). 

Tempel Synagogue, 
24 Miodowa street

Hour

9:00 a.m.

Visiting Kazimierz synagogues (tour in Polish, fee 30 PLN)

Starting point at High Synagogue (Synagoga Wysoka), 38 Jozefa street

9:30 a.m.

Visiting Kazimierz synagogues (tour in English, fee 30 PLN)

Starting point at High Synagogue (Synagoga Wysoka), 38 Jozefa street

10 a.m.

Kids in Museum: A Journey through History on an Old Tram, a workshop for children (free admission). 

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

1:00 p.m.

“Famous Krakow Rabbis: Moshe Isserles called Remu (1525-1572)”, a lecture by Rabbi Boaz Pash.

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

1:30 p.m.
to  3:00 p.m.

Polish tour of the New Jewish Cemetery (fee 30 PLN). 

Starting point 55 Miodowa street

2:30 p.m.

Theater production in Polish of „W tym miescie” a play about contemporary Jewish life in Poland (free admission).

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

3:00 p.m.
 

Following the Footsteps of Ruben Silber, an English tour of Kazimierz district (fee 10 PLN).

Starting point at High Synagogue (Synagoga Wysoka), 38 Jozefa street

3:00 p.m.

Ambassador Zvi Rav-Ner’s lecture, in English and Polish, commemorating Chris Schwarz. (free admission). 

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

3:00 p.m.

“Reaction of the Polish Government to Emigration of Jews from Poland to Israel in the Years 1956 to 1959", a Polish lecture by Doctor Ewa Wegrzyn (free admission).

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

4:00 p.m.

„Jontew Lider” - reading poems about Jewish holidays in Yiddish and Polish (free admission).

Cheder Cafe at 36 Jakuba Street (entry from Jakuba street)

4:30 p.m.

Meeting with Israel's artist Diti Rav-Ner (free admission).

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

5:30 p.m.

Genealogical advice for individuals in Polish and English (free admission).

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

7:00 p.m.

Concert of Jewish cantors features USA's Azi Schwartz and Yaakov Lemmer as well as Israel's Yaakov Motzen plus Lishmoa El Harina choir (admission 200 PLN). 

Tempel Synagogue, 
24 Miodowa street

8:00 p.m.

Musical sailing on Wisla river, a concert of Israel's Monti Fiori (admission 70 PLN).

Boat Sobieski moored between Most Debnicki bridge and the Wawel Castle

Hour

9:00 a.m.

Visiting Kazimierz synagogues (tour in Polish, fee 30 PLN)

Starting point at High Synagogue (Synagoga Wysoka), 38 Jozefa street

9:30 a.m.

Visiting Kazimierz synagogues (tour in English, fee 30 PLN)

Starting point at High Synagogue (Synagoga Wysoka), 38 Jozefa street

10:00 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m.

Klezmer Basic and Beyond, a workshop of Klezmer music for beginners led by Deborah Strauss (USA) and Sanne Moricke (Germany), in English and Polish (admission 10 PLN). 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

10 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m.

Open Meeting: “Let's Meet Halfway”. 

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

10:00 a.m.
to noon.

Workshop of Jewish paper-cutting, in English and Polish (admission 10 PLN).

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street. 

10:30 a.m.
to noon

Workshop for children in Polish: painting on glass, in English and Polish (free admission).

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street.

at noon

Workshop of Yiddish singing led by the USA's Jeff Warschauer (admission 10 PLN, English and Polish).

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

at noon

New Klezmer, workshop of a new Jewish music (admission 10 PLN, English and Polish).

Kawiarnia Naukowa at 10 Szeroka street.

at noon

Workshop for children in Polish: “Biblical Stories and Characters” (admission 5 PLN).

Popper Synagogue, 
16 Szeroka street

noon
to  1:30 p.m.

„Poland on Paper: the Portrayal of the Polish in American Media” an English lecture by the USA’s Stephanie Butnick.  

Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

1:00 p.m.

“Famous Krakow Rabbis: Natan Szapira (1585-1633)”, a lecture by Agata Paluch.

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

1:30 p.m.

Tour of the Remuh cemetery in Polish (fee 20 PLN). 

Starting point at the Remuh Synagogue, 
40 Szeroka street

2:00 p.m.

„What's Jewish” an English lecture by the USA’s Rabbi Michael Paley.  

Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

2:00 p.m.

Open rehearsal of Krakow's JCC choir (free admission).

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

2:30 p.m.

2 Generations, 1 Subject: Jewish Cuisine - a discussion in Polish (free admission).

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

3:00 p.m.

Foreign Eye, Kazimierz from a Traveler Viewpoint - a tour in English (fee 30 PLN).

Starting point at High Synagogue (Synagoga Wysoka), 38 Jozefa street

3:00 p.m.

“Lodz Jewish Families of Factory Owners at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries", a Polish lecture by Doctor Anna Lagodzinska (free admission).

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

3:30 p.m.
to 4:30 p.m.

Workshops of Jewish dance with USA's Steven Weintraub and accompaniment by Festival Yiddish Dance Band (admission 20 PLN, English and Polish).

SCKM, 15 Wietora street

4:00 p.m.

Workshop of Jewish cooking with Poland's Malka Kafka(admission 20 PLN, English and Polish).  

Hamsa Restobar at 2 Szeroka street.

4:00 p.m.

„CoolJewz: Golems, Dybbuks, and Other Film Monsters – What Is the Jewish Horror” – a presentation by the UK’s Mikel Koven in English and Polish (free admission).  

Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

4:00 p.m.

Meet the Star @ Cheder: Faran Ensemble (Israel), free admission.

Cheder Cafe at 36 Jakuba Street (entry from Jakuba street)

5:00 p.m.

„Religious Life in Post-War Krakow” – a lecture by Poland’s Slawomir Pastuszka, in Polish (free admission). 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

5:00 p.m.

„Knysz in History” – a lecture by the USA’s Laura Silver in English (free admission). 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

5:30 p.m.

Israeli Groove Connection: Omri Ma Ninsak Ya Mamma: History of Koliphon Records – a radio play (free admission).

Cheder Cafe at 36 Jakuba Street (entry from Jakuba street)

7:00 p.m.

Yiddish winkl, a conversation meeting for Yiddish speakers (free admission)..

Cheder Cafe at 36 Jakuba Street (entry from Jakuba street)

7:00 p.m.

„Sephardim Summer Cookery” – a lecture by Poland’s Mari Niziolek, in Polish (free admission). 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

8:00 p.m.

USA’s trumpeter Frank London and Krakow Academy of Music Big Band perform klezmer music (admission 70 PLN).

Tempel Synagogue, 
24 Miodowa street

8:00 p.m.

“Dissolving Localities” a show performed by Israel’s Emmanuel Witzthum and Arik Futterman, Germany’s Thomas Koner, Elektromoon Vision, and Poland’s DJ Lenar (admission 15 PLN).

Teatr Bagatela's Scena Na Sarego playhouse at 7 Sarego street.

9:00 p.m.

“And Then They Came For Me: Recollecting the World of Anna Frank” a theater show in English, based on the book Eva's Story (admission 75 PLN). 

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

midnight

Jam session with Poland's Cukunft band (admission 10 PLN). 

Alchemia club, 5 Estery street at Plac Nowy square

Hour

8:00 a.m.

“Shtetl – Following the Traces of Jewish Villages” a day trip touring Dzialoszyce, Pinczow, Chmielnik, and Szydlow (in English, cost 250 PLN).

Starting point at Jewish Klezmer Hoise, 6 Szeroka street.

9:00 a.m.

Jewish Life in Kazimerz and Podgorze (tour in Polish, fee 30 PLN)

Starting point at High Synagogue (Synagoga Wysoka), 38 Jozefa street

9:30 a.m.

Jewish Life in Kazimerz and Podgorze (tour in English, fee 30 PLN)

Starting point at High Synagogue (Synagoga Wysoka), 38 Jozefa street

10:00 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m.

Klezmer Basic and Beyond, a workshop of Klezmer music for beginners led by Deborah Strauss (USA) and Sanne Moricke (Germany), in English and Polish (admission 10 PLN). 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

10 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m.

Open Meeting: “Let's Meet Halfway”. 

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

10:00 a.m.
to noon.

Jewish Art: Thresholds in Jewish Life, a workshop in English and Polish (admission 10 PLN).

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street. 

10:30 a.m.
to noon

Workshop for children in Polish: “Chawa and Her Kazimierz”.

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

noon

Workshop of Yiddish singing led by the USA's Jeff Warschauer.

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

at noon

New Klezmer, workshop of a new Jewish music (admission 10 PLN, English and Polish).

Kawiarnia Naukowa at 10 Szeroka street.

at noon

Workshop for children in Polish: “Biblical Stories and Characters” (admission 5 PLN).

Popper Synagogue, 
16 Szeroka street

noon
to  1:30 p.m.

„The third Generation: Young American Jews and Poland” an English lecture by the USA’s Stephanie Butnick.  

Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

noon
to  1:30 p.m.

“Israel - Photo-Story about That How to Live and Don't Go Crazy”, lecture by Maria Szychowska (Poland).  

Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

1:00 p.m.

“Famous Krakow Rabbis: Szymon Dankowicz (1834 - 1910)”, a lecture in English by Alicja Maslak-Maciejewska.

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

1:30 p.m.

Tour of the Remuh cemetery with Edgar Gluck (USA), Chief Rabbi of Galicia (in English, fee 20 PLN). 

Starting point at the Remuh Synagogue, 
40 Szeroka street

1:30 p.m.

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

2:00 p.m.

„Cabala on a Skateboard”. A presentation in English by Rabbi Rabin Dovid Tsap from Australia (free admission).  

FKZ playground, Wawrzynca street and Waska street.

2:00 p.m.

„What's Jewish” an English lecture by the Poland’s Katarzyna Zimmerer.  

Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

2:00 p.m.

Open rehearsal of Krakow's JCC choir (free admission).

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

2:30 p.m.

2 Generations, 1 Subject: a Jew Unbelieving - a discussion in Polish (free admission).

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

3:00 p.m.
 

Following the Footsteps of Ruben Silber, an Polish tour of Kazimierz district (fee 10 PLN).

Starting point at High Synagogue (Synagoga Wysoka), 38 Jozefa street

3:30 p.m.
to 4:30 p.m.

Workshops of Jewish dance with USA's Steven Weintraub and accompaniment by Festival Yiddish Dance Band (admission 20 PLN, English and Polish).

SCKM, 15 Wietora street

4:00 p.m.

Workshop of Jewish cooking with Poland's Malka Kafka(admission 50 PLN, English and Polish).  

Hamsa Restobar at 2 Szeroka street.

4:00 p.m.

„CoolJewz: Jewsploitation – Stereotyping and the Picture of a Jew in The Hebrew Hammer” – a presentation by the UK’s Mikel Koven in English and Polish (free admission).  

Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

4:00 p.m

Poems of Celia Dropkin, the First Lady of Yiddish Poetry.  In Yiddish, Polish, and English (free admission)..

Cheder Cafe at 36 Jakuba Street

4:30 p.m.

Kitsch and Stereotypes on Both Sides of the Atlantic - a discussion in Polish and English (free admission).

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

4:30 p.m.

„How To Search Your Roots” – a lecture by Poland’s Zbigniew Czuprynski, in Polish (free admission). 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

5:00 p.m.

„Holocaust and the Nazis in Mass Culture: from Disney to Tarantino” – a lecture by Poland’s Ilga Danek, in Polish (free admission). 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

5:30 p.m.

Israeli Groove Connection: Boom Pam! - The Folk is Going Electric – a radio play in English (free admission).

Cheder Cafe at 36 Jakuba Street (entry from Jakuba street)

5:30 p.m.

Genealogical advice for individuals in Polish and English (free admission, booking in advance).

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

7:00 p.m.

Yiddish winkl, a conversation meeting for Yiddish speakers (free admission)..

Cheder Cafe at 36 Jakuba Street (entry from Jakuba street)

7:00 p.m.

Riverloam Trio: Trzaska / Brice / Sanders play free jazz inspired by Jewish songs (admission 70 PLN)

Tempel Synagogue, 
24 Miodowa street

7:00 p.m.

Screening of Jesse Zook Mann’s movie “Punk Jews” (in English, free admission).

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

8:00 p.m.

“Dissolving Localities” a show performed by Israel’s Emmanuel Witzthum and Arik Futterman, Germany’s Thomas Koner, Elektromoon Vision, and Poland’s DJ Lenar (admission 15 PLN).

Teatr Bagatela's Scena Na Sarego playhouse at 7 Sarego street.

8:00 p.m.

Concert commemorating Maja Brand. (admission 50 PLN).

Piwnica Pod Baranami club, 27 Rynek Glowny square.

10:00 p.m.

Israel’s Faran Ensemble performs groove jazz (admission 70 PLN).

Tempel Synagogue, 
24 Miodowa street

midnight

Jam session with USA’s trumpeter Frank London and friends (admission 10 PLN).

Alchemia club, 5 Estery street at Plac Nowy square

Hour

9:00 a.m.

Visiting Kazimierz synagogues (tour in English)

Starting point at Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

9:30 a.m.

Visiting Kazimierz synagogues (tour in Polish)

Starting point at Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

10 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m.

Open Meeting: “Our Roots and the Paths of Our Lives”. 

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

10:00 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m.

Workshop of Yiddish singing led by the USA's Jeff Warschauer.

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

10:30 a.m.
to noon.

Workshop of Jewish paper-cutting 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street. 

10:30 a.m.
to noon

Workshop for children in Polish: “In a Jewish Home”.

Popper Synagogue, 
16 Szeroka street

11:00 a.m.

'The Symbolism of Gravestones', a tour of Jewish cemeteries.

Starting point at the Remuh Synagogue, 
40 Szeroka street

noon

Children in the museum! Program for children and young people.. 

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

noon
to  1:30 p.m.

“From a Palm-Tree Country to the Distant Land of Snow: Yiddish as a Bridge Between Worlds”, lectures by Agnieszka Legutko, Ph.D. (Poland / USA) and Michael Alpert (USA).  

Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

noon
to  1:30 p.m.

Klezmer Basic, a workshop of Klezmer music for beginners led by Deborah Strauss (USA) and Sanne Moricke (Germany). 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

noon

“Finding Kalman” - screening of the documentary and meeting with its authors Roz Jacobs and Laurie Weisman (USA).

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

noon

Meet the JCC, a tour of the Jewish Community Center. 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

half past noon

Walk in the Former Jewish Ghetto of Krakow, tour in Polish. 

Starting point on the Plac Bohaterow Getta square.

1:00 p.m.
to  2:30 p.m.

“Haggadah – the Most Beautiful Jewish Book”- an art workshop and presentation by Monika Krajewska. 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

1:00 p.m.
to  2:30 p.m.

“The Modern Legend of Ritual Murder, Kielce 1946” a lecture by Jolanta Zyndul, Ph.D. (Poland), The Mordechai Anielewicz Center for the Study and Teaching of the History and Culture of Jews in Poland, Warsaw University . 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street. 

2:00 p.m.
to  3:30 p.m.

English tour of the New Jewish Cemetery. 

Starting point 55 Miodowa street

2:00 p.m.

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

2:00 p.m.

“What Claim Does Israel Have to the Diaspora, and Vice Versa?” a debate with the participation of Professor Shlomo Avineri (Israel), Konstanty Gebert (Poland), Stanislaw Krajewski, Ph.D. (Poland), and Pawel Smolenski (Poland)  

Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

2:30 p.m.
to  4:00 p.m.

Workshop of Hasidic singing led by Cantor Benzion Miller from the USA.

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

3:00 p.m.
to 4:30 p.m.

Yemenite jewelry, a workshop by Israel's Benzion David.

Barka boat moored next to the Bulwar Kurlandzki boulevard near Gazowa street.

3:00 p.m.
to 4:30 p.m.

Workshops of Jewish dance with USA's Steven Weintraub and accompaniment by Festival Yiddish Dance Band.

SCKM, 15 Wietora street

3:00 p.m.

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

3:00 p.m.

“Meet the Genealogist – Find Your Jewish Roots” an appointment with Grzegorz Gembala (Poland). 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street. 

4:00 p.m.

“Diaspora: Mother of Contemporary Israel” a lecture by Maciej Stroinski (Poland), Jagiellonian University.  

Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

5:00 p.m.

Workshop “Israeli Cooking” with Malka Kafka (Poland).  

Barka boat moored next to the Bulwar Kurlandzki boulevard near Gazowa street

5:00 p.m.

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

5:00 p.m.

Meet the Star @ Cheder: David Krakauer (USA).

Cheder Cafe at 36 Jakuba Street (entry from Jakuba street)

6:00 p.m.

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

7:00 p.m.

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

7:00 p.m.

USA’s cantors Benzion Miller, Chaim Shimon Miller, Eli Oizer Miller, and David Isaack Weisz sing and pianist Daniel Gildar, trumpeter Frank London, and violinist Michael Alpert play traditional Hassidim music.

Tempel Synagogue, 
24 Miodowa street

10:00 p.m.

Poland’s Alte Zahen band performs jazz music inspired by traditional Jewish tunes and American pop of the 1960s.

Tempel Synagogue, 
24 Miodowa street

midnight

USA’s Pitom Duo of guitarist Yoshie Fruchter and violinist Jeremy Brown plus Poland’s Alte Zahen quartet play jazz inspired by Jewish traditional tunes.

Alchemia club, 5 Estery street at Plac Nowy square

Hour

9:00 a.m.

Visiting Kazimierz synagogues (tour in English)

Starting point at Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

9:30 a.m.

Visiting Kazimierz synagogues (tour in Polish)

Starting point at Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

10 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m.

Open Meeting: “Our Roots and the Paths of Our Lives”. 

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

10:00 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m.

Workshop of Yiddish singing led by the USA's Jeff Warschauer.

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

10:30 a.m.
to noon.

Workshop of Jewish paper-cutting 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street. 

10:30 a.m.
to noon

Workshop for children in Polish: “Treasures of Kazimierz”.

Popper Synagogue, 
16 Szeroka street

11:00 a.m.

'The Symbolism of Gravestones', a tour of Jewish cemeteries.

Starting point at the Remuh Synagogue, 
40 Szeroka street

noon

Children in the museum! Program for children and young people.. 

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

noon
to  1:30 p.m.

“Children and the Yiddish Language” a lecture by Anna Rozenfeld (Poland)  

Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

noon
to  1:30 p.m.

Klezmer Basic, a workshop of Klezmer music for beginners led by Deborah Strauss (USA) and Sanne Moricke (Germany). 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

half past noon

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

1:00 p.m.
to  2:30 p.m.

“Jews in Poznan. A Historical Perspective.” A lecture by Rafal Witkowski, Ph.D. (Poland), Department of Asian Studies, Section of Hebrew, Aramaic and Karaite Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

2:00 p.m.
to  3:30 p.m.

Walk in the Former Jewish Ghetto of Krakow, tour in English. 

Starting point on the Plac Bohaterow Getta square.

2:00 p.m.
to  3:30 p.m.

English tour of the New Jewish Cemetery. 

Starting point 55 Miodowa street

2:00 p.m.

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

2:00 p.m.
to  2:30 p.m.

“Six Days That Changed the Middle East” a lecture by Grzegorz Gembala (Poland). 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

3:00 p.m.
to 4:30 p.m.

Yemenite jewelry, a workshop by Israel's Benzion David.

Barka boat moored next to the Bulwar Kurlandzki boulevard near Gazowa street.

3:00 p.m.
to 4:30 p.m.

Workshops of Jewish dance with USA's Steven Weintraub and accompaniment by Festival Yiddish Dance Band.

SCKM, 15 Wietora street

3:00 p.m.

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

4:00 p.m.

“Diaspora: Mother of Contemporary Israel” a lecture by Maciej Stroinski (Poland), Jagiellonian University.  

Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

4:00 p.m.

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

5:00 p.m.

Workshop “Kabbalah Cooking” with Malka Kafka (Poland).  

Barka boat moored next to the Bulwar Kurlandzki boulevard near Gazowa street

5:00 p.m.

Meet the Star @ Cheder: Paul Shapiro (USA).

Cheder Cafe at 36 Jakuba Street (entry from Jakuba street)

5:00 p.m.

Poland's Midrash Theatre performs its show "5ztuka". 

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

5:00 p.m.

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

7:00 p.m.

Poland’s Mikolaj Trzaska Ircha Quartet play jazz inspired by Jewish traditions.

Tempel Synagogue, 
24 Miodowa street

8:30 p.m.

Poland's Midrash Theatre performs its show "Secrets of My Grandma". 

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

10:00 p.m.

USA’s sextet, Paul Shapiro's Ribs & Brisket Revue, perform music inspired by Jewish American tunes of the 1930s and 1940s.

Tempel Synagogue, 
24 Miodowa street

midnight

USA’s trumpeter Frank London, pianist Jerry Korman, bassist Booker King, and drummer Tony Allen play jazz.

Alchemia club, 5 Estery street at Plac Nowy square

Hour

9:00 a.m.

Visiting Kazimierz synagogues (tour in English)

Starting point at Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

9:30 a.m.

Visiting Kazimierz synagogues (tour in Polish)

Starting point at Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

10 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m.

Open Meeting: “Our Roots and the Paths of Our Lives”. 

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

10:00 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m.

Workshop of Yiddish singing led by the USA's Jeff Warschauer.

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

10:30 a.m.
to noon.

Workshop of Jewish paper-cutting 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street. 

10:30 a.m.
to noon

Workshop for children in Polish: “Magical Kazimierz”.

Popper Synagogue, 
16 Szeroka street

11:30 a.m.
to noon.

“Stones of Remembrance: How We Indexed All Inscriptions from the Jewish Cemeteries of Warsaw and the Rest of Mazovia” a lecture by Witold Wrzosinski (Poland) 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street. 

noon

Children in the museum! Program for children and young people.. 

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

noon
to  1:30 p.m.

Klezmer Basic, a workshop of Klezmer music for beginners led by Deborah Strauss (USA) and Sanne Moricke (Germany). 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

noon

Meet the JCC, a tour of the Jewish Community Center. 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

noon
to  1:30 p.m.

“Yiddish in Contemporary Art” a lecture by Anna Rozenfeld (Poland).  

Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

half past noon

Walk in the Former Jewish Ghetto of Krakow, tour in Polish. 

Starting point on the Plac Bohaterow Getta square.

1:00 p.m.
to  2:30 p.m.

“Real and Fantastic Animals in Jewish Tradition”- an art workshop and presentation by Monika Krajewska. 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

1:00 p.m.

“Jewish Theatre at Lower Silesia, 1945–1968” a lecture by Anna Kaluzna (Poland), Department of Jewish Studies, Wroclaw University. 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

1:00 p.m.

“The First Annual Krakow Latke-Hamantash Debate” with Benjamin Lorch (USA / Germany). 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

2:00 p.m.

“Those High-Topped Boots”, presentation of Professor Shevah Weiss’s latest book and meeting with the author.  

Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

2:00 p.m.

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

3:00 p.m.
to 4:30 p.m.

Yemenite jewelry, a workshop by Israel's Benzion David.

Barka boat moored next to the Bulwar Kurlandzki boulevard near Gazowa street.

3:00 p.m.
to 4:30 p.m.

Workshops of Jewish dance with USA's Steven Weintraub and accompaniment by Festival Yiddish Dance Band.

SCKM, 15 Wietora street

3:00 p.m.

Following the Footsteps of the Krakow Rabbis, an English tour of Kazimierz district.

Starting point at Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

3:00 p.m.

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

3:00 p.m.

“Meet the Genealogist – Find Your Jewish Roots” an appointment with Grzegorz Gembala (Poland). 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street. 

3:30 p.m

Workshop of Jewish paper-cutting 

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street. 

3:30 p.m.

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

4:00 p.m.

“Diaspora: Mother of Contemporary Israel” a lecture by Maciej Stroinski (Poland), Jagiellonian University.  

Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

4:00 p.m.

Zahor, a ceremony commemorating Krakow Jews. 

Plac Bohaterów Getta square.

5:00 p.m.

Meet the Star @ Cheder: Rykarda Parasol (USA).

Cheder Cafe at 36 Jakuba Street (entry from Jakuba street)

5:00 p.m.

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

6:00 p.m.

Israel’s Nino Bitton and The Maghreb Orchestra play Jewish-Arab music.

Tempel Synagogue, 
24 Miodowa street

6:30 p.m.

Poland's Midrash Theatre performs its show "Dancing with Chopin in Galicia". 

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

7:00 p.m.

Tea Dance Party features The Festival Yiddish Dance Band.

Plac Wolnica square

8:30 p.m.

Musical Shabbat in Galicia Jewish Museum, led by Rabbi Tanya Segal, first woman rabbi in Poland, with The Mojse Band playing.

Galicia Jewish Museum, 18 Dajwor street

9:00 p.m.

Jewish Community Center at 24 Miodowa street.

10:00 p.m.

USA’s alt pop singer Rykarda Parasol performs with her Polish band.

Tempel Synagogue, 
24 Miodowa street

Hour

9:00 a.m.

Jewish Life in Kazimierz and Podgorze (tour in Polish)

Starting point at Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

9:30 a.m.

Jewish Life in Kazimierz and Podgorze (tour in English)

Starting point at Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

11:00 a.m.

'The Symbolism of Gravestones', a tour of Jewish cemeteries.

Starting point at the Remuh Synagogue, 
40 Szeroka street

noon

Ceremony of presenting medals to those in Poland who are protecting Jewish Heritage 

Galicia Museum at 18 Dajwor street. 

1:00 p.m.

Jewish Life in Kazimierz and Podgorze (tour in Polish)

Starting point at Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

1:30 p.m.

Jewish Life in Kazimierz and Podgorze (tour in English)

Starting point at Jewish Culture Center, 17 Meiselsa street at Plac Nowy square.

3:00 p.m.

“The Tower of Babel”, a lecture by Rabbi Tyson Herberger (Poland), Jewish Community of Warsaw 

Jewish Community Center at 24 t 24 Miodowa street.

5:00 p.m.

Concert "Leopold Kozlowski and Friends" features an array of Krakow's pop acts.

Tempel Synagogue, 
24 Miodowa street

8:00 p.m.

Poland’s Horny Trees trio.

Cheder Cafe at 36 Jakuba Street (entry from Jakuba street)

10:00 p.m.

USA’s Shapiro Sextet play live music during screening of ‘His People’ silent movie of 1925.

Tempel Synagogue, 
24 Miodowa street