Media Attention
The New York Times, October 21, 2014
After several days of concerts, seminars, festivals and hoopla, the core exhibition of [POLIN] Museum of the History of Polish Jews — the most ambitious cultural institution to rise in Poland since the fall of Communism — will be unveiled on Tuesday. Poland’s top political leaders will be there, as will the president of Israel and other international dignitaries. The institution has been embraced across the political spectrum.
The Economist, October 18, 2014
The country is undergoing an unexpected Jewish revival. Among artists and intellectuals, Jewish identity is seen as hip. Warsaw boasts a Jewish school and half a dozen thriving synagogues, and towns from Lublin to Chmielnik are restoring Jewish architectural artefacts and teaching Israeli folk dance. If it seems increasingly clear that an exhibition on Polish Jewry should not overemphasize its disappearance, that is partly, and unexpectedly, because it seems to be coming back.
Dr. Elie Wiesel, 1986 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
There were 1,000 years of Jewish history in Poland. 1,000 years of activity, of extraordinary aspirations and endeavors and dreams and metamorphoses: 1,000 years, which must be studied and communicated and shared.
The New York Times
The museum, in its size, ambition, location, and importance, will instantly become a touchstone.
Prof. Moshe Rosman, Koschitzky Department of Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University
The museum is a daring enterprise. It will be a historical museum that ranks
with the best in the world.
Forbes
A symbol of Jewish revival in the region.
Jewish Daily Forward
One of the most significant Jewish cultural projects in contemporary Europe…
The New York Times
[Poland is experiencing] one of the deepest ethical transformations that any European country has undergone since the end of World War II and the Holocaust.
