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The Dynamic Duo Behind Poland’s Jewish Revival

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

Wojtek and Malgosia Ornat are pioneers in the promotion of Jewish culture and Jewish-themed tourism in Kazimierz, the old Jewish quarter of Krakow, Poland. Today, the Ornats, who in 1992 opened the first Jewish-style café in Krakow, run the popular Klezmer Hois café-hotel-restaurant, a Jewish publishing house called Austeria, and Jewish bookstores in Krakow and Budapest. They recently rented the High Synagogue in Krakow to use as exhibition space.Read More

The Nazi Cowboy: A New Exhibit Explores the Life and Work of Billy Jenkins

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

The photograph is bizarre and disturbing: A broadly grinning middle-aged man, dressed in full cowboy regalia, strides across a stage. In one hand, he brandishes a wide-brimmed cowboy hat; in the other, he holds aloft a big Nazi swastika topped by an eagle spreading its wings.Read More

Slain Serbian P.M. Served as Symbol Of Multiethnic Era

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

ROME — When the news came that Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic had been gunned down on Wednesday by an assassin in Belgrade, I pulled out a stack of photographs I had taken of him almost a year ago to the day.It was March 17, 2002, and Djindjic was in the northern Serbian city of Subotica, making his first official visit as primeRead More


     

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