The POLIN Museum invites you to join an exclusive journey through 1000 Years of Jewish Life in Poland, May 18th–26th, 2019 (8 days/8 nights).
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This tour, a first of its kind and will be led by Professor Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, the Chief Curator of the POLIN Museum’s Core Exhibition. You will have exclusive access to POLIN Museum, winner of the 2016 European Museum of the Year Award, and many other prizes.
- Enjoy behind-the-scenes visits to one of Europe’s finest museums.
- Discover the richness of 1000 years of Jewish life in Poland with Professor Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, expert guides, and scholars.
- Meet the directors, curators, and founders of POLIN Museum.
- Explore the history of Polish Jews shown in POLIN Museum as you visit Warsaw, Lublin, Zamość, Sanok, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Kraków.
- Savor Polish and international cuisine and deluxe accommodation.
For more information and to reserve a place contact Taube Jewish Heritage Tours at: www.taubejewishheritagetours.com/polintour2019 or email at: [email protected]
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland, and Advisor to the Director. She is University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University. She was honored for lifetime achievement by the Foundation for Jewish Culture and received the Yosl Mlotek Prize for Yiddish and Yiddish Culture, honorary doctorates from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, University of Haifa, and Indiana University, and the 2015 Marshall Sklare Awardfor her contribution to the social scientific study of Jewry.
She was decorated with the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for her contribution to POLIN Museum. Most recently she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She serves on Advisory Boards for the Council of American Jewish Museums, Jewish Museum Vienna, Jewish Museum Berlin, and the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, and is an advisor for museum and exhibition projects in Lithuania, Ukraine, and Israel.
Her publications include Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage; Image Before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864–1939 (with Lucjan Dobroszycki); The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times (with Jonathan Karp), Anne Frank; Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory (with Jeffrey Shandler), and They Called Me Mayer July: A Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust (with Mayer Kirshenblatt).
