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Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw to Unveil Core Exhibition

This is the amazing project Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett has been working on these past few years. Tremendously exciting.

To Celebrate Its Jewish History, Poland Presents 'a Museum of Life': Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw to Unveil Core Exhibition, by Rick Lyman, Oct 21, 2014

WARSAW -- With anti-Semitism having become more prominent again across Europe, something quite different is growing in a huge, translucent building at the center of a vanished neighborhood in Warsaw.

After several days of concerts, seminars, festivals and hoopla, the core exhibition of the 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 and has drawn only scattered, mild protest.…