Home page - 35. Festiwal Kultury Żydowskiej

accompanying event, guided tours and walks, workshops

Imagined Synagogues (PL)

10:00
Galicia Jewish Museum, ul. Dajwór 18 Jessica Szczepańska Workshop & city tour (children’s event)

accompanying event, lectures, meetings, discussions

Schools Beyond Kazimierz: Secular Education of Krakow’s Jews (PL)

10:00
Cafe Hafuch, ul. Józefa 25 Dr. Alicja Maślak-Maciejewska

guided tours and walks

Synagogues in Kazimierz (PL)

10:00
High Synagogue, ul. Józefa 38 (start) Anna Kiesell

accompanying event, guided tours and walks

From Map to Mappa. Jewish Life in Kraków From the Day Before Yesterday Till This Morning (EN)

11:00
Starting point: Galicia Jewish Museum, ul. Dajwór 18 Bartosz Wencel

accompanying event, guided tours and walks

Curatorial tour through the exhibition “Intersections. Papercuts by Anna Wencel” (PL)

11:00
Galicia Jewish Museum, ul. Dajwór 18 Jagoda Wójcicka Curatorial tour

guided tours and walks

Synagogues in Kazimierz (EN)

11:00
High Synagogue, ul. Józefa 38 (start) Agi Legutko

Jewish dances (PL / EN)

11:00
Festival Tent, ul. Józefa 36  Led by: Jacek Dymel, live music: Deborah Strauss - violin, kantor Jeff Warschauer - guitar, Zilyin Biret - clarinet

accompanying event, art, workshops

Cut Out. Papercutting Workshop with the Artist (PL)

12:00
Galicia Jewish Museum, ul. Dajwór 18 Anna Wencel

lectures, meetings, discussions

The gates, courtyards and streets of Kraków in the memoirs of its Jewish residents (PL)

12:00
Institute of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University, ul. Józefa 19 Dr. Monika Stępień

lectures, meetings, discussions

Elegant Solutions and A Flower is Not a Rat – storytelling (EN)

12:00
High Synagogue, ul. Józefa 38, upper floor performances by husband and wife, Len Biran and Ruth Steinberg

guided tours and walks

Walking Around Kraków in the footsteps of Sara Shenirer (EN)

13:00
High Synagogue, ul. Józefa 38 (start) Janina Naskalska Babik

Yiddish Singing: Yiddish Songs and Melodies of Love, Kindness, Community and Unity (EN / PL)

13:00
Hevre +1, ul. Meiselsa 18 A Hands-On Yiddish Song Workshop Series for Singers of all Levels and Ages; Led by: cantor Jeff Warschauer

guided tours and walks

Bish’arecha, Within Your Gates: One Hundred Gates of Kazimierz and Their Stories (PL)

14:00
High Synagogue, ul. Józefa 38 (start) rabin Boaz Pash

lectures, meetings, discussions

Music Can’t Change the World. Until It Does (EN /PL)

14:00
Festival Tent, ul. Józefa 36  Kobi Farhi / Orphaned Land

accompanying event, lectures, meetings, discussions

Helena Rubinstein: From the Gates of Kazimierz to the New World (PL)

15:00
Galicia Jewish Museum, ul. Dajwór 18 Kinga Banasik

Klezmer Instrumental Music (EN / PL)

15:00
Hevre +1, ul. Meiselsa 18 A Hands-On Workshop Series for Instrumentalists of all Levels and Ages; Led by: Deborah Strauss (violin), Zilyin Biret (clarinet)

lectures, meetings, discussions

Tales from the Gate. Lublin (PL / EN)

16:00
Festival Tent, ul. Józefa 36  Łukasz Stypuła

guided tours and walks

Walking Around Kraków in the footsteps of Sara Shenirer (PL)

16:00
High Synagogue, ul. Józefa 38 (start) Janina Naskalska Babik

accompanying event, meeting

Czarne in Galicia: “Nasi Niemcy” (Our Germans) (PL)

17:00
Galicia Jewish Museum, ul. Dajwór 18 Maciej Falkowski, led by: Jolanta Drużyńska

accompanying event, guided tours and walks

From Gate to Gate: History Written in the Names of Kazimierz Streets (PL)

17:00
JCC Krakow, ul. Miodowa 24 (starting point) Małgorzata Kucharska

The Klezmatics. 40th anniversary world tour. Ecstatic Klezmer since 1986

18:00
Tempel Synagogue, ul. Miodowa 24 Lorin Sklamberg – vocals, piano, accordion; Frank London – trumpet, keyboard; Lisa Gutkin – violin; Matt Darriau – clarinet, saxophone, kaval; Richie Barshay – drums, percussion; Paul Morrissett – bass, tsimbl

accompanying event, ceremony

Kabbalat Shabbat. Progressive Shabbat service (PL / EN / HEB)

19:00
Galicia Jewish Museum, ul. Dajwór 18 Cantor Ryfka Foremniak, Anna Hajduk-Rynkowicz (piano) Religious Service

accompanying event, film screening

Midas Man (EN / PL)

20:00
Galicia Jewish Museum, ul. Dajwór 18 dir. Joe Stephenson, United Kingdom, 2024, 112’ 12th edition of “The Space of an Image. A Series of Films on Jewish Themes” EN, subtitles: PL

Welcoming Shabbat with Strauss/Warschauer Duo

20:30
Festival Tent, ul. Józefa 36  Deborah Strauss – violin, kantor Jeff Warschauer – guitar, voice

KAZ_LAB 2026

21:00
the facade of the High Synagogue, ul. Józefa 42 film screening: the facade of the High Synagogue, ul. Józefa 42, exhibition : 2okna Café, ul. Józefa 40, 9:00 – 22:00, Organization: Małgorzata Łuczyna & Jacek Złoczowski [Memorymorph]

The Ziryab Trio

21:00
Cloisters of St. Catherine Church, ul. Augustiańska 7 Taiseer Elias – oud, Nassim Dakwar –violin, Zohar Fresco –percussion

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