Posts Tagged ‘ Poland ’

The Jewish Festival in Cracow

The Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow, Poland is one of the most important and largest events of its kind in the world. The First Festival took place in 1988 and its program focused on a scholarly conference on the encounter between two cultures, Jewish and Polish. Shaped by outstanding figures in various fields of Jewish [...]



First Polish Jewish app

Cocolab is a Krakow based company that prepared a special birthday gift to the 20thJewish Culture Festival in Cracow, Poland and its guests – this is an  iPhone app, that to which you will get very friendly and intuitive guide to all Festival’s events. In honor of this summer’s anniversary, the Festival will showcase the [...]



The Big Mystery

The Big Bow Mystery, by Israel Zangwill – one of the earliest “locked room” mysteries. All of the clues are in the story — but you’ll be surpised by the ending. The fact that the mystery disappears after the second chapter in no way detracts from the joy of this book. From widowed boarding house [...]



Tykocin Jazz Suite

Nostalgic Journey – Tykocin Jazz Suite - an incredible, heartwarming recording composed for Randy Brecker’s “homecoming,” celebrated with this suite composed by renowned Polish jazz pianist and film composer Wlodek Pawlik. This disc tells an amazing story that began in 1994 when Randy Brecker met Wlodek Pawlik in Germany, when the award-winning Polish pianist played with the Western Jazz [...]