Polish partners celebrate Jewish cultural and artistic days

A lot of new information, new presentations and many interesting activities - this means our project and the Jewish cultural and artistic days

Slovak students visited the Jewish museum in Bratislava

We saw there a lot of interesting and unique exponats and things which are typical only for Jewish traditions, life and culture and art

Jewish wedding - presentation of this Jewish tradition

Days of Jewish culture - a good opportunity for Polish students to present the habits of Jews during the wedding.

Polish partners presented Jewish humour

The students from Kielce - our eTwinning partners had a workshop where they presented typical Jewish humour :))))

Our Polish partners visited the Jewish Museum

Our Polish partners visited the Museum of Jewish art together with their teachers. They were really surprised by the exhibition of Jewish art and culture

Jewish theatre

Our workshop about the Jewish theatre gave us a lot of new information about the greatest Jewish theatres in Tel Aviv, Moscow and New York. Unfortunately, there is no Professional theatre in Slovakia nowadays.
Habima National Theatre located in Tel Aviv, is Israel's national theatre and one of the first Hebrew language theatres. In 1928 Habima invited director Aleksei Dikiy from the Moscow Art Theatre. Dikiy directed two successful plays for Habima: one was Der Oytser (The Treasure), a play in Yiddish by Sholom Aleichem, that premiered on December 29, 1928, the second was The Crown, a play by David Calderon, that premiered on May 23, 1929 in Tel Aviv. With the success of Dikiy's directorship in the season of 1928/29, Habima gained reputation as a national Jewish theatre with a permanent repertoire and stage in Tel Aviv.
The Moscow State Jewish Theater, also known by its acronym GOSET was a Yiddish theater company established in 1919 and shut down in 1948 by the Soviet authorities. The theater's repertoire included adaptations of Sholom Aleichem, such as Tevye the Milkman (also adopted in the West as Fiddler on the Roof),and of Avrom Goldfadn, such as Bar Kokhba, as well as works by contemporary Soviet Yiddish writers, such as Perets Markish and Dovid Bergelson. The theater also performed William Shakespeare's King Lear to great acclaim.
The Jewish Theater of New York is a theatre company founded in 1994, with the popular production of One Hundred Gates by playwright/director Tuvia Tenenbom. As of 2003, The Jewish Theater of New York is the only English-speaking Jewish theatre company in New York state. Some of its shows, such as Father of the Angels, Love Letters to Adolf Hitler, Diary of Adolf Eichmann, The Suicide Bomber, Love in Great Neck, The Last Virgin, Last Jew in Europe and others, have been written about in much of the Western press and are also studied in universities.

Jewish film

There are a lot of good films about Jews, their life: These are some of them:
Schindler´s list - Schindler's List is an epic 1993 American war-drama film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Polish Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally. It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as Schutzstaffel (SS) officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern.
Holocaust - The film Holocaust tells the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of the (fictional) Weiss family of German Jews, and from the point of view of a rising member of the SS, who gradually becomes a merciless, bloodthirsty war criminal. Holocaust highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War II, such as Kristallnacht, the creation of Jewish ghettos and later, the use of gas chambers. The series ultimately attempted to portray the atrocity of this genocide to viewers.
The Chosen - The film elucidates the friendship between two young Jews of differing factions. Benson is Hassidic, while Barry Miller is a Zionist. Though separated ideologically, the boys find a common bond through their love of stickball.
Fiddler on the roof - The story centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his family and religious traditions while outside influences encroach upon their lives. He must cope with both the strong-willed actions of his three older daughters—each one's choice of husband moves further away from the customs of her faith—and with the edict of the Tsar that evicts the Jews from their village.
Driving Miss Daisy - An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly wins her over with his native good graces. The movie is directly taken from a stage play and does show it. It covers over twenty years of the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship t transcends their differences.
Shoah - Shoah is a nine-hour film completed by Claude Lanzmann in 1985 about the Holocaust (or Shoah). Though Shoah is conventionally classified as a documentary film, director Lanzmann considers it to fall outsid of that genre, as, unlike most historical documentaries, the film does not feature reenactments or historical footage; instead it consists of interviews with people who were involved in various ways in the Holocaust, and visits to different places they discuss.