August 2019 - News and Updates

An exhibition Warsaw Rising 1944 "We wanted to be free and owe this freedom to nobody" will be on display at the Daniel Boone Branch of St Louis County Library. 

Sunday Aug 18, 2019  4 PM
“Chasing Portraits” 
a film by Elizabeth Rynecki

at the Jewish Community Center Theater
Staenberg Family Complex 
2 Millstone Dr, Creve Coeur MO

For tickets call 314.442.3179

CHASING PORTRAITS a film by Elizabeth Rynecki

Maurycy (Moshe) Rynecki (1881-1943) was a prolific Warsaw-based artist who painted scenes of the Polish-Jewish community until he was murdered at Majdanek. After the Holocaust, Moshe’s wife was only able to recover a small fraction of his work, but unbeknownst to the family, many other pieces survived.  For more than a decade his great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Rynecki, has searched for the missing art, with remarkable and unexpected success. Spanning three generations, Chasing Portraits is a deeply moving narrative of the richness of one man’s art, the devastation of war, and one woman’s unexpected path to healing.


 

 Saturday, August 24 (10am-7pm)   &   Sunday, August 25 (10am-6pm) 

Join us in Tower Grove Park for the International Institute’s Festival of Nations. Our region’s largest multiculture celebration features more than 40 food booths, non-stop dance and music, arts and crafts, and an international bazaar with unique gifts from around the world.

This August, more than 125,000 visitors will gather for two days to celebrate the many cultures of our region’s newcomers and long-timers. The International Institute produces the festival in collaboration with more than 100 local ethnic and international organizations and the support of more than 600 community volunteers. To learn more about the International Institute, click here. 

Tower Grove Park is located near Grand and Arsenal on the City’s South Side, only steps away from St. Louis’ famed International District! shuttle service will provide complimentary rides on designated routes during operating hours.

For general information about the festival, click here.

Bal w Operze 
 Teatr Nasz (Chicago)

https://www.teatrnasz.com/

 September 28, 2019, 8 PM
.ZACK Theatre 
3224 Locust Street , St Louis MO 63103

Tickets $40.00

https://www.metrotix.com/events/detail/teatr-nasz-bal-w-operze


 

https://www.metrotix.com/events/detail/teatr-nasz-bal-w-operze

BAL W OPERZE: APOKALIPSA WEDŁUG JULIANA TUWIMA
S t r e s z c z e n i e  (Translated by Karolina Jurak)
Bal w Operze autorstwa Juliana Tuwima jest jedną z najbardziej niezwykłych apokaliptycznych wizji, powstałych w latach poprzedzających wybuch II wojny światowej. Kiedy Tuwim zaczynał pisać swe dzieło, optymizm charakteryzujący lata 20. XX wieku już dawno wygasł. Pogorszenie klimatu politycznego Tuwim odczuł szczególnie boleśnie. Dla kogoś, kto uważał się zarówno za Polaka, jak i za Żyda, niezwykle dotkliwa była wszechobecna atmosfera antysemityzmu, rozniecana przez dojście Hitlera do władzy w Niemczech, utrzymywanie się kryzysu gospodarczego i gotowość części obozu rządowego do przyjęcia antysemickiego programu. Bal w Operze stanowi brutalny opis zdeprawowanej faszystowskiej dyktatury, którego autor jest na skraju rozpaczy. W przeciwieństwie do niektórych innych polskich pisarzy „katastroficznych” z lat 30. XX wieku, takich jak Gałczyński i Witkiewicz, Tuwim akcję tej faszystowskiej dystopii umieszcza właśnie w Polsce. Jest to poemat apokaliptyczny, w którym makabryczna wizja Tuwima dotycząca niegodziwych występków skorumpowanego społeczeństwa spaja się z zapowiedzią jego zniszczenia. 


A BALL AT THE OPERA: APOCALYPSE BY JULIAN TUWIM
S u m m a r y  (by Antony Polonsky)
Julian Tuwim’s Bal w Operze (A Ball at the Opera) is one of the most remarkable of the apocalyptic visions which were produced in the doom-laden years prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. When he began to write it the optimism which had characterized the 1920s had long been dissipated. The worsening political climate was particularly painfully felt by Tuwim. As someone who considered himself both Polish and Jewish the pervasive climate of antisemitism, stimulated as it was by Hitler’s coming the power in Germany, the persistence of the depression and the willingness of a section of the government camp to adopt an antisemitic platfrom was extremely painful to experience. A Ball at the Opera is a savage description of a corrupt fascist dictatorship written by an individual in despair. Unlike some other Polish ‘catastrophist’ writers of the 1930s, such as Gałczyński and Witkiewicz, Tuwim clearly situates this fascist dystopia in Poland. It is an apocalyptic poem where Tuwim’s horror of a corrupt society’s filthy doings fuses with a foreboding of the destruction of that society.

Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski
 Official Trailer [HD] Netflix

From Producer Leonardo DiCaprio comes a Netflix original documentary film about Stanislaw Szukalski, an eccentric artist and self proclaimed genius from Poland. After gaining fame leading up to WW2 he fell into obscurity only to be re-discovered late in life. He’s one of the greatest artists you’ve never heard of.

Jakub Józef Orliński, countertenor

Meet Jakub Jozef Orlinski  the Polish countertenor who shot to stardom two years ago in a video by France Musique, sheds light on the younger generation of opera singers. Thanks to his presence on social media, his positive energy, his parallel and complementary career as an elite breakdancer, and his willingness to share his experience with his fans, he's become one of the most in-demand young singers on the world stage.

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This book is meant to describe life in Poland during the most savage war in human history; a war in which the genocidal policies of the Nazis resulted in the deaths of millions of innocent people. The people’s response was an organized resistance movement which grew to dimensions unmatched in any other country in occupied Europe that would test the mettle of the nation for almost six long years. The book illustrates the impact of the Second World War on the lives of ordinary men and women who were forced to live day-in and day-out under the barbaric rule of the German occupation. With a spirit of defiance, and a deep-seated rejection of the Nazi occupation, the book is a story of dedicated men and women who had a great love of country matched with a resolve to do extraordinary things, and in many cases offering their own lives, in and unequal struggle against the brute force of a far superior alien power.  To order your copy please contact Saint Louis Polonia 314-323-3841. 

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We have a limited quantity of Polish edition of Richard Fuegner's book "Nation Defiant" Please contact us at 314-323-3841 for more information.
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