Taube Center for Jewish Life & Learning
The Taube Center is committed to strengthening the bonds between Jews and Jewish communities worldwide.
The Taube Center provides innovative educational programs and extensive resources with the aim to enrich Jewish life in Poland and to connect Jews from around the world with their Eastern European heritage. The Taube Center has developed an array of programs, which serve the Jewish communities in Poland and engage audiences from around the world. Constantly expanding its network of partner organizations, the Center has recently become a member of the European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage. Taube Jewish Heritage Tours Taube Jewish Heritage Tours is a mission-driven, on-the-ground Jewish heritage tour service based in Poland. Our professional team of academics, guides, educators, and community leaders provide meaningful and engaging customized tours of Poland's multicultural landscape, infusing each encounter with illuminating personal stories and insights from those engaged in Polish Jewish life and committed to the preservation of Polish Jewish heritage. TJHTalks Series Having suspended our flagship program, Taube Jewish Heritage Tours, we launched TJHTalks in April 2020 as an interactive way to maintain contact with past and future tour participants and to broaden the Center's audience. Yerusha: Professional Development Program The year-long program, now in its second year, distinguishes itself from other Jewish professional development opportunities in that the operative language is Polish and all workshop facilitators are based in Poland. Resource and Educational Materials The Taube Center has developed a sophisticated set of resource materials in several languages that support our educational programs and are especially valuable for our study tour program. Our publications have been disseminated at the POLIN Museum and the Galicia Jewish Museum and through Polish embassies and cultural institutions around the world.
Warsaw, Poland
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TJHTalks
TJHTalks, an audience-supported program launched in 2020, is a monthly webinar featuring preeminent scholars from Poland and around the globe discussing Polish Jewish history and contemporary issues. Guest speakers thus far have included Professors Deborah Lipstadt, Dariusz Stola, Samuel Kassow, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Antony Polonsky, Marcin Wodzinski, and Natalia Aleksiun, as well as Jewish culinary and cultural icons. Your support will enable the Taube Center to continue producing this exciting series and exploring new themes with outstanding scholars from all over the world.
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- $2,500
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Help Us Supporting Ukrainians
On Monday, March 25, Jakub Łysiak, our General Manager, embarked on the latest mission to the Kupiansk Region at the Ukrainian eastern front. The area is currently under constant bombardment as Russia seeks to decimate the Ukrainian army, deplete ammunition, and destroy the remaining infrastructure. Medical supplies were distributed to soldiers on the frontline and a hospital in Kharkiv. During unloading blankets and dry goods, constant alarms sounded and an un-intercepted drone struck nearby due to the growing lack of sufficient military equipment. We are enclosing several of Łysiak’s previous articles on the war in Ukraine and the Taube Center’s ongoing relief efforts. We continue to support Dom Matki (Single Mother’s Home) in Warsaw, which offers assistance and provisions to Ukrainian mothers and their small children from Mariupol, Odessa, Kharkiv, and Kyiv. If you want to make a tax-deductible contribution to support our ongoing work, we can intensify our efforts. Your generosity will make a real difference in the lives of those affected by this crisis. It is almost impossible to find the right words, in any language, to thank you for your extraordinarily generous donations to aid Ukrainian refugees. Your gifts and support enable us to continue providing continuous direct and indirect assistance as we do our part in Poland's humanitarian response to a crisis of this magnitude. This war will end someday; all wars do. But the support is still needed. For the refugees outside Ukraine, for those who stayed in the country, and — last but not least — for those fighting, not only for their homeland but for the values and principles of the democratic, free world. Thanks to your generous support, we are helping in the following areas: organizing workshops for Ukrainian refugees in Poland subsidizing support initiatives delivering food, medical supplies, clothing, and equipment to Ukraine With our deepest gratitude for your support and most impactful contribution, Helise Lieberman, Aleksandra Makuch, Jakub Łysiak, Pawel Lukaszewicz, Kaja Siczek, Marta Eichelberger-Jankowska, Aleksandra Sajdak, Zosia Szabat, Witold Ostalowski and Mikolaj Kaniewski.
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James Gotlieb My ancestors were from several locations in historical Poland. We visited Warsaw, Krakow and our ancestral villages in 2019. The experience was remarkably moving and the support we found from the local communities made the experience all ...
sam knobler in memory of Al & Paula Knobler survivors of the Shoah in Poland.
sandra robinson 1The Center is doing remarkable work. My father was born in Poland and came to the United States when he was 10 months old. It's eastern Polsand, but was Russia at the time.
Irene Plotzker connections mean a lot to me.
JUDITH FISCHER I support the monthly Taube talks.
Robert Bergin 1In memory Bertha Fogel.