Being a Jew Today
in Poland, in Israel, in the World
Movie screening and a Discussion Panel (in English)
Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 16:00
The entrance is free but please register here (form)
Where? Wiener Library, behind the Sourasky Central Library, Tel Aviv University Campus – see maps
Proof of Identity
Dowód tożsamości
Movie directed by Mikołaj Grynberg (2021)
Followed by a discussion with
Ela Bauer (Seminar Ha-Kibbutzim College)
Leon Sfard (member of the Polish-Israeli community Reunion68, mathematician)
& Anna C. Zielinska (AEMJP & University of Lorraine, France)
The discussion will be introduced by Dr. Dror Segev from the Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations (TAU).
Coorganized by the AEMJP, The Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations (TAU), and the Wiener Library (TAU)
Proof of Identity – Dowód tożsamości, directed by Mikołaj Grynberg (2021), is an original record of touching conversations with representatives of various generations of Polish Jews.
Length: 41 minutes; language: Polish with English subtitles
The movie asks a series of questions which get responses of astonishing and touching lucidity.
- How do the Jews living in Poland today feel in this country ?
- What hurts them? What do they dream about?
- How does the memory of the Holocaust evolve and what role does it play in the minds of today’s 20-year-olds?
Proof of Identity is the directorial debut of the writer, reporter and photographer Mikołaj Grynberg (finalist of the “Nike” Literary Award, laureate of the Warsaw Literary Premiere).
The film is an attempt to show the specificity of being a Polish Jew and living in a country whose history is full of events that have not happened anywhere else, but had a huge impact on the sense of identity among the Jewish community.
Our role
We know and admire Mikołaj Grynberg’s works on March 68 – the forced exodus of the Polish Jews. Now we were delighted to participate to the creation of his first movie.
We think that showing this movie today, creating an opportunity to talk about Jewish life, hopes and disappointments is particularly timely not only to celebrate 10th anniversary of the POLIN Museum in Warsaw, but also to have a conversation in Israel about the meaning of Jewish identity in contemporary world.
AEJMP funded the production of the movie « Proof of Identity »
AEMJP Polin 