Memory and Halakha (event in Polish)

Zachor (Hebrew for "remember") is used nearly 200 times in the Hebrew Bible, which is the foundation of the Jewish legal system. This was calculated by the historian Yosef Haim Yerushalmi, who in his book "Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory" put forward the thesis that it was the commandment of remembrance that played a key role in the process of preserving identity during the centuries of Jewish dispersion in the Diaspora.
The need for commemoration took on a new meaning after the Holocaust. However, it is not always obvious how to cultivate the memory of the victims in accordance with their tradition and halacha, i.e. Jewish religious law.

Online

Green commemoration. Postmemory practices

What does working with difficult heritage look like in practice? How are performative monuments created? How do you decolonize places after violence, bring out their post-memory dimension and restore agency to victims?

Online

STAKEHOLDERS MEETING – Negotiating Difficult Pasts

The meeting with director Marcin Wierzchowski and theater artist Michael Rubenfeld will be hosted by theater critic Jacek Wakar. The conversation will take place as part of the NeDiPa project stakeholder meeting.interesariuszy projektu NeDiPa.

Kraków

COMMUNITY BUILDING – WROCŁAW

Places of Difficult Memory – How to design, how to talk?

COMMEMORATION – PIKULE

Together we will commemorated of seven Jews from Modliborzyce, resting in the place of their forest hideout near the village of Pikule.

Pikule, gm. Janów Lubelski

Green Commemorations. Action through Art

An outdoor event presenting creative and participatory practices of transmitting the memory of places of difficult heritage in green space.

Kraków

CONFERENCE & A SERIES OF EVENTS ON “DIFFICULT HERITAGE”

Difficult Heritage. Jewish Breslauers and Other Local Stories, Contexts and Activities

Wrocław

Esther's Willow

Esther's Willow is a public memory project centering a planting of a white willow sapling in the former Esther’s Square, the location of the Great Synagogue of Chrzanów demolished in the 1970s. The artists' years-long process of research, collaboration, and making brought regional and local institutions, contemporary inhabitants, descendants, survivors, and their dead together to
mark, contemplate, mourn, enliven, and honor the square and the generations that surround/ed and fill/ed it.

Chrzanów

COMMEMORATION – NOWE TRZCIANO

Ceremony commemorating seven men aged about 30 and a woman about 20, Jewish escapees from the Bialystok ghetto

KICK-OFF

Warsaw