"Tour of Jewish Poland - Past, Present, and Future" - a collaboration between Brown RISD Hillel, Professor Adam Teller (Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History), and the Taube Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland Foundation. The trip is a highly-subsidized opportunity to explore Jewish life in Poland with classmates from College Hill over spring break. It is designed to enhance the classroom learning offered in Professor Teller's course JUDS 0901 - "Brothers Betrayed: Jews and Poles from 1500 until Today", which trip participants are required to take.
Checkout the participant blog at http://browninpoland.blogspot.com/. Tour highlights include:
- Tour of Warsaw’s Old Town
- Synagogue Service at the Nozyk Synagogue
- Shabbat dinner with young Jewish community activists
- Walking tour of Plac Grzybowski, Prozna Street
- Workshop at the Museum of Modern Art - Havdalah
- Havdalah with the members of the Progressive Community, Ec Chaim
- Tour through Warsaw’s Jewish Cemetery and clean up session
- Walking tour through pre-War Jewish Warsaw, the former Ghetto, the Umshlagplatz, Route of Memory and Martyrdom, and the Museum Plaza
- Brunch at Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews
- POLIN – tour and session –guided by Dr. Adam Teller and Joanna Ficus
- Guided tour of Lublin’s Old Town and Session at Brama Grodzka
- Yeshivat Chamei Lublin with text study session
- Driving tour through Zamosc/ Lezajsk/ Lancut
- Tour Lancut's castle grounds and the Synagogue
- Walking tour of Kazimierz
- Visit Podgorze, former ghetto
- Schindler’s Factory Museum
- Birkenau-Auschwitz study tour
- Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecim
- Session at the Jagiellonian University
- Interactive Tour of Krakow’s Old Town
- Shabbat dinner at Krakow’s JCC and members of the Krakow’s Jewish Community
- Visit and session to the Galicia Jewish Museum