The painted ceiling of the Chodorow synagogue (17th c., reconstruction  of Bet ha-Tefutzot).The Temple of Lwow. Postcard, early 20th c.Maurycy Gottlieb.  Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur, 1878

Session3

Warsaw

Embedded Poland: Signs, Views and Memory in Ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jewry

Chair: Piotr Kowalik, POLIN Museum
Rabbi Yehuda Horowitz, ‘Ad Hena’: The Institute for the Rabbinic Heritage of Galician and Bukovinian Jewry (RGB), Herzog Academic College:  Relics of Polish Jewry in Israeli Life – Symbols and Customs
Yisrael Malkiel,  `Ad Hena’: The Institute for the Rabbinic Heritage of Galician and Bukovinian Jewry (RGB), Herzog Academic College: In These (Polish) Regions: The Blurred Geographical Borders of Contemporary Israeli Halakhic Writing