{"id":10914,"date":"2014-12-16T19:04:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=10914"},"modified":"2014-12-16T12:48:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T10:48:05","slug":"10914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=10914","title":{"rendered":"New Polish museum of Jewish life called \u2018stunning\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>New Polish museum of Jewish life called \u2018stunning\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Ron Csillag<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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POLIN: The museum of the History of Polish Jews is being praised by many.<\/em><\/span><\/center><\/p><\/div>\n

TORONTO \u2014 Add to your bucket list a trip to Warsaw to see POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, which is already being hailed as a world-class facility just weeks after it opened.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think it is a stunning museum. It has a fair chance of being one of the great museums of the world,\u201d enthused University of Toronto historian Michael Marrus at a panel last week at U of T\u2019s Wolfond Centre, presented by the Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation of Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n

What makes the museum so compelling is that \u201cit is built on scholarship,\u201d Marrus added.<\/span><\/p>\n

After eight years of construction, the completed museum has become a striking addition to the Polish capital\u2019s cityscape, said Peter Jassem, head of the Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation of Canada\u2019s Toronto chapter and chair of the museum\u2019s Canadian committee.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Oct. 28, the museum\u2019s core exhibit was opened by the presidents of Poland and Israel. Comprised of eight galleries set on 47,000 square feet, the exhibits \u201cput you in the moment of time,\u201d said Jassem, who presented a slide show of the museum\u2019s interior and exterior.<\/span><\/p>\n

The centrepiece of the museum, Jassem pointed out, is a meticulously reconstructed ceiling of a destroyed 17th-century wooden synagogue that once stood in the town of Gwozdziec.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jews have lived in Poland for 1,000 years, and by the eve of World War II, they made up over a third of the population of many urban centres in the country, including the capital, he noted. Half of all Jews who perished in the Holocaust were from Poland, and 90 per cent of Polish Jewry was wiped out.<\/span><\/p>\n

What makes the exhibits unique, Jassem explained, is that they present Polish history as a continuous, thousand-year story. Unlike other countries, Poland never banned or expelled Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Polish government invested $80 million in the museum, and an additional $50 million came from private funds, including from many Canadians.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the dignitaries who attended the opening was Canadian Sen. Linda Frum. \u201cThis new museum is not a museum to commemorate how Jews died in Poland. It is a museum to celebrate how they lived and, indeed, how they often thrived,\u201d Frum told the Senate on Nov. 4.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor my part, as a Jew of Polish heritage, married to the son of Holocaust survivors, participating in the opening of this museum was a truly emotional experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Another Canadian connection came in 2006, when Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, a Toronto-born museum scholar, was appointed as head curator.<\/span><\/p>\n

The museum, which has won global acclaim for its design and architecture, stands in the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWith its tent flap-like entry and fa\u00e7ade of copper, glass and sand-coloured concrete, the building, glimmering like a mirage against its drab Warsaw backdrop, appears to look both back and forward in time,\u201d noted the New York Review of Books this month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Toronto historian Frank Bialystok, who was born in Poland in 1946, agreed the museum \u201chas been done with class and nuance\u201d and provides \u201ca profound sense of the integration of Poles and Jews throughout history.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more: New Polish museum…<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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