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The first shabat in Pinczow after WWII took part in small shtetl in Kielce region - Pinczow in days June 16 - 17. The festivities began last Friday at 4:30 p.m. in the town
The first shaba...
The first shabat in Pinczow after WWII took part in small shtetl in Kielce region - Pinczow in days June 16 - 17. 

On Friday the Ahron HaKosdesh (holy ark housing the torah scrolls) will feel the warmth of a blanket of parochet for the first time in 63 years.  The parochet will be drawn aside when the Ark is opened to receive the torah this Shabbat Behalotecha.  We will sing: va
The first shaba...
The first shabat in Pinczow after WWII took part in small shtetl in Kielce region - Pinczow in days June 16 - 17. 

On Friday the Ahron HaKosdesh (holy ark housing the torah scrolls) will feel the warmth of a blanket of parochet for the first time in 63 years.  The parochet will be drawn aside when the Ark is opened to receive the torah this Shabbat Behalotecha.  We will sing: va
The first shaba...
The first shabat in Pinczow after WWII took part in small shtetl in Kielce region - Pinczow in days June 16 - 17.
The first shaba...
The first shabat in Pinczow after WWII took part in small shtetl in Kielce region - Pinczow in days June 16 - 17.
The first shaba...
The first shabat in Pinczow after WWII took part in small shtetl in Kielce region - Pinczow in days June 16 - 17. 
The primary theme of Pinczow Szabbat was remembrance.  This was combined with outreach to our Catholic neighbors.  And all this was part of an ingathering of Jews from all over Poland, and outside as well, to enjoy and learn about Szabbat.

The main leader of this event was Michael Traison
The first shaba...
The first shabat in Pinczow after WWII took part in small shtetl in Kielce region - Pinczow in days June 16 - 17. 

> It was not a static event.  Even a movie camera and a recording machine could not do it justice.  This was no stick figure event but rather an intricate tapestry woven with threadwork of multiple dynamics and events within events.  A photo shoot would have required a variety of perspectives of Catholic-Jewish relations in Poland, Polish Jewish-Jewish relations, foreign Jewish-Jewish

The main leader of this event was Michael Traison
The first shaba...
From before the lighting of the Szabbat candles on Friday afternoon until the conclusion of Sunday
From before the...
There can be no rebirth of Jewish life in Pinczow.  Germany succeeded in ensuring that, while Poland watched between agony and something else, and the State of Israel has ensured that there is no need for that.  But this Shabbat we remember.
There can be no...
These local Pinczow Polish Catholics who think they never saw a Jew managed to sum up the first and predominant theme of Pinczow Szabbat.
These local Pin...
By 7 the ceremonies were moved to the 16th century synagogue which was filled with townspeople including high school students and local officials of city and regional government and Catholic clergy.  We handed out the prizes to the winners of the awards competition for the art work on Szabbat themes which was organized by the local school principal.  It seemed like this was a Jewish town in a very unreal way.
By 7 the ceremo...
> Present was a former Pinczow resident and his entire family now living in Brussels, a woman from Sweden whose father was from Pinczow and who escaped a transport from Pinczow to Auschwitz.  One third of the Jews in Bialystok came (i.e., one woman.)  Others came from Wroclaw and Warsaw and Krakow and Lodz and other places.  There were two 21 year old Chabbad students, one from Florida and the other from Montreal, who are studying at the 2 year old Chabbad Chai center in Warsaw.  Competition and threatening some feel, yet they were part of the group and the group embraced them.  The Germans would have been disappointed that their ultimate goal of a judenrein world had failed and we were showing that failure in little shtetl Pinczow.
> Present was a...
> Present was a former Pinczow resident and his entire family now living in Brussels, a woman from Sweden whose father was from Pinczow and who escaped a transport from Pinczow to Auschwitz.  One third of the Jews in Bialystok came (i.e., one woman.)  Others came from Wroclaw and Warsaw and Krakow and Lodz and other places.  There were two 21 year old Chabbad students, one from Florida and the other from Montreal, who are studying at the 2 year old Chabbad Chai center in Warsaw.  Competition and threatening some feel, yet they were part of the group and the group embraced them.  The Germans would have been disappointed that their ultimate goal of a judenrein world had failed and we were showing that failure in little shtetl Pinczow.
> Present was a...
"So how was it?"  I am asked and I struggle for a simple "linear" answer.  I need a  click of the shutter of my "word camera"  to create  a  snapshot which won
"So how was it?...

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