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2012-02-21

On Jewish heritage in Hrodna

From February 17th-19th, 2012, a training conference called ‘Jewish Heritage in Belarus and Ukraine: Protection, Education, Promotion’ was held at Yanka Kupała University in Hrodna. The training course was attended by a great number of various activists who are involved in preserving Jewish heritage in Kharkov, Hrodna, Kiev, Lvov, Dyatlov and Mohylev. During the meeting workshops run by Kornelia Kurowska from the ‘Borussia’ Foundation, Olsztyn and Aleksandra Żińczuk with Emilia Majuka from the Grodzka Gate-NN Theater from Lublin, and by Marcin Dziurdzik from the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, were staged. All participants, divided into three groups. They were familiarized about online Jewish heritage education and protection of historical monuments.

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The main idea of the workshops was to support current and planned projects related to Jewish heritage in Belarus and Ukraine through transferring Polish experiences in this field. A lecture that was delivered by Krzysztof Bielawski from the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, which dealt with Jewish cemeteries, and a visit to the Choir Synagogue, which is in the midst of restoration, were the biggest attractions over the entire training.

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The attendees also had the chance to take part in the inauguration of the ‘Belarusian Synagogues’ exhibition at the Museum of History and Archeology in Hrodna. The opening was followed by a concert by Alieksiej Zbanov, a translator and a poetry singer from Minsk. He sang traditional Jewish chants translated into Belarusian.

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The meeting was organized as part of the ‘Jewish Heritage in Belarus and Ukraine: Protection, Education, Promotion. The Training Course and Good Practice Application ’ project has been conducted by the Jewish Historical Institute Association in Poland , Yanka Kupała State University in Hrodna and the Center for Research in Ethnic Relations and the Research Center for the History and Culture of East European Jews in Kiev, as part of the ‘RITA-Changes in the Region’ program of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation.

The second part of the conference is scheduled for May 2012, Lvov.

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