Final Farewell 18 February 2025 You can also read our obituary published in Le Monde (in French). It is with great sadness that we join in the immense grief felt at the loss of Marian Turski, who helped to preserve and the memory of the Jews of Poland and to make it fully alive and…
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Shlomo Avineri (1933-2023)
שלמה אבינרי Shlomo Avineri was born as Jerzy Wiener in Bielsko, Poland, 30 August 1933. He has recently passed away, at the age of 90, in Israel, on November 30, 2023. Avineri was an outstanding political scientist and historian, author of a number of books on Karl Marx and the history and ideas of Zionism….
In Memoriam: Pawel Spiewak, a key figure of the Jewish Intellectual life in Poland
In Memoriam: Pawel Spiewak, figure-clé de la vie intellectuelle juive en Pologne English below Parmi les intellectuels polonais de la charnière des siècles peu ont été si marquants que le sociologue, l’historien des idées et connaisseur de l’histoire et de la philosophie juve Paweł Śpiewak (1951 – 30 mars 2023). Fils des écrivains Anna Kamieńska (1920-1986) et de Jan…
Simone Veil (1927-2017)
Simone Veil, une personne extraordinaire qui a été la Présidente d’honneur de l’AEMJP, nous a quitté. Elle nous manquera. Simone Veil, wonderful person who was also the honorary President of the AEMJP, just left us. She will be dearly missed.
Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016)
Andrzej Wajda, one of the most important film directors of the 20th century, died on October 9, in Warsaw. Recipient of a honorary Oscar and the Palme d’Or, many of his movies undertook essential issues of Polish-Jewish history (Samson, 1961; The Promised Land, 1975; Korczak, 1990; Holy Week, 1995 among others). Roman Polanski, who started…
Shimon Peres (1923-2016)
Corinne Evens with Shimon Peres, at the Peres Center for Peace, Jaffa, 2016 The Museum Polin mourns Shimon Peres, who honoured it with his support from its very beginnings and visited in 2008 while the Museum was under construction. Shimon Peres’ daughter, Tsvia Walden, and his son-in-law, have both visited the Museum several times since…
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