100 cantors travel to the former heart of European Jewry

100 cantors travel to the former heart of European Jewry

August 5, 2009 Perspectives

I  had been to Poland before, so I arrived prepared for the beautiful, lush countryside and green parkland. It wasn’t the grey, bleak country I had come to expect from all the Holocaust movies I had seen. However, this visit to Poland was different. There seemed to be a renewal of Jewish life and a keen interest in memorializing the past.

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