Jews and Poland
We Were Neighbors (Jewish Culture Festival — Poland)
Feasts, Fairs, and Fiestas: Celebrations Around the World (Red Penguin Books, 2024), pp. 148–155
JewTh!nk, July 28, 2023
On reading Bruno Schulz
See also Reflections on Reading Bruno Schulz, The Wisdom Daily, March 17, 2022
JewTh!nk, January 3, 2023
A reflection on a pre-pandemic Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków
See also Reflections on the Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków, The Wisdom Daily, September 9, 2022
Dominika Kolodziej (left) and Polish novelist Joanna Chojnacka (right) at the Hevre restaurant in Kraków. Photo — Shai Afsai
Mariusz Matera and Preserving the Memory of Jewish Life in Chelm
written with Ariela Alush
New English Review, April 2020
An interview with Polish artist, activist, and musician Mariusz Matera
Mariusz Matera (left) and Czeslaw Uszyński (right) at Kraków’s Tempel Synagogue. Photo — Shai Afsai
Jewish Rhode Island, September 2019
Among the memorabilia sold in Kazimierz’s Plac Nowy, or New Square — as well as in other parts of Kraków and throughout Poland — are pictures and figurines of the “Lucky Jew.”
Michael Rubenfeld and Adam Schorin discuss their “Lucky Jew” portraits with Polish passersby at Plac Nowy in Kraków. Photo — Shai Afsai