Refugees and citizens in East-Central Europe in the 20th century

Lidia Zessin-Jurek at Singer’s Warsaw (2021)

Lidia Zessin-Jurek (Unlikely Refuge?) took part in the programme of the 18th Festival of Jewish Culture – Singer’s Warsaw on August, 26th, 2021. In a session on Jewish education organized at the Yiddish Cultural Center by Anna Szyba, she presented the paper titled Raised to Resist. The School of the Interwar Period and the Decision to Flee by the Generation of the ‘Jewish Columbuses’ (1939).

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