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"I.B. Singer's Warsaw": The Sixth Annual Festival of Jewish Culture
Warsaw, August 29 - September 6, 2009
languages: Polish  / English 
 

The Festival of Jewish Culture, "Singer's Warsaw" preserves the memory of prewar Jewish Warsaw, which these days is known mainly from Isaac Bashevis Singer's stories and novels. Each year, superb representatives of Jewish culture from all over the world come to the Polish capital. Many of them have their roots here: their parents and grandparents were born here; they have Polish surnames.

The festival has had the logo shown in the Festival posters from the beginning: the figure is partly a symbol of Jewish culture and party a symbol of Warsaw - a fiddler o­n the roof and Warsaw's mermaid.

The 100th anniversary of Isaac Bashevis Singer's birthday was the reason to organize the first edition of the Festival of Jewish Culture in Warsaw. This city was not chosen accidentally - the Nobel prizewinner was born near here and grew up in Warsaw. This city had a special place in his heart throughout his entire life.

"Every single street in Warsaw used to be an independent town" - wrote Isaac Bashevis Singer in a New York daily newspaper "Forwerts". Próżna Street becomes such an "independent town" each year, during the days of the festival.

The aim of the Shalom Foundation is to reconstruct the prewar atmosphere here in order to present the annihilated world of the Polish Jews - along Próżna Street Jewish cafés, quaint shops and workshops are created. An old bookstore and a newspaper office in which Singer worked in New York before the war are constructed. Each year a wine bar and a bakery are made. Everyone can come inside, and have a look at collected odds and ends in use at the beginning of the 20th Century.

The detailed program could be found on pages www.singersfestival.pl

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