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Jewish Memory in Contemporary Poland

POLIN

Friday, 16 January 2015, 5:30 pm

William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge

A virtual tour of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw with Program Director Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, followed by a broader discussion of Jewish memory in contemporary Poland with Dr Roma Sendyka from the Jagiellonian University, Krakow.

More information: cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-polish-studies-to-host-inaugural-free-lecture

PHOTOS FROM THE EVENT

 

Professor Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Program Director at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, and Dr Roma Sendyka, Assistant Professor in Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow

"Jewish Memory in Contemporary Poland" - William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge

Dr Stanley Bill, Lecturer in Polish Studies, University of Cambridge

Professor Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Program Director at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Professor Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Program Director of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Dr Roma Sendyka, Assistant Professor in Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Professor Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Dr Sendyka

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