"Seventy of these acrylic #paintings are the subject of a new exhibition titled “(post) #JEWISH… #Shtetl Opatów Through the Eyes of Mayer Kirshenblatt” at Warsaw’s POLIN #Museum of the #History of #Polish#Jews.
Kirshenblatt painted from memory: the synagogue, men washing in the mikvah ritual bathhouse, the cemetery, townspeople, school scenes including a pupil being flogged by a teacher, an illicit cigarette factory, the illegal slaughter of a cow, bagel sellers, a water-carrier, circus performers.
There were no forbidden subjects. One painting depicts a visibly pregnant bride at her wedding, and another features the town’s two prostitutes, Jaźdka and Świderka."
TIL that #Polish and #Lithuanian have both taken the transcription from #Czech. Yet each has a different one. Polish took it from Old Czech. But the Czech language reformed and when the Lithuanians wanted to distinguish their language from the dominant Polish during the national revival, they adopted the transcription from modern Czech. That is why Polish has "cz" and Lithuanian has "č".
#European allies push the #us to allow Ukr to use U.S. made weapons to strike Rus.
Yesterday, #Macron and #Scholz said they supported #Ukraine using weapons given by allies to strike Russian bases launching missiles, but not allow other strikes on #russia
Following the stabbing of a #Polish border guard through the Poland-Belarus border fence by a migrant trying to cross illegally, #Poland will now create a buffer zone on this border.
Russia’s ally, #Belarus has been accused of bringing migrants to the #border as part of their "hybrid war".
I love #trains ! & I love #InterRail !! These are impressions from today’s trip to #ripe88 : tea ceremony in the Dutch train, German clouds (with #music notation electricity lines! ), #Polish brunch with additional Indonesian snacks, while reading a book about Native #American language: collectivist culture & animism grammer ! (There is no word for please: food is meant to be shared )