Category Archives: Jewish Warsaw

Explore the Unique Wooden Architecture of Otwock

July 15, 2019
Otwock is a small town near Warsaw, almost entirely covered with forests. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries it became a summer and health resort popular among Jews from Warsaw. While Jewish ...

The Warsaw`s Praga Museum

September 20, 2015
The Warsaw’s Praga Museum is an institution which preserves the heritage and the unique atmosphere of the Praga district. It`s located in several buildings on the right side of the Vistula river at T...

Isaac Bashevis Singer from Krochmalna Street

November 24, 2014
Isaac Bashevis Singer was an Yiddish writer and the winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He was publishing only in Yiddish beeing the leading figure in Yiddish literature movement. He wrote s...

Jewish Dormitory – Warsaw Home for Menachem Begin

October 22, 2014
The letters “AAJ” on facade of that beautiful building mean “Auxilium Academicum Judaicum” –  the Jewish Dormitory. When the Jewish orthodox society settled in the area they didn`t want a...

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

September 9, 2014
The Polin Museum is housed in a beautiful building designed by a Finnish architects Rainer Mahlamäki and Ilmari Lahdelma. It stands in the middle of the pre-war Jewish district where the Nazis create...