Poland was called Paradise for Jews, before WWII. A museum exhibition is designed to celebrate all the aspects of Jewish cultural life in Poland (instead of only death and the Holocaust elsewhere in Poland). The museum itself is all new and modern with a glass exterior.
I saw the museum being built on a tour of Warsaw. Huge and impressive. A wonderful new museum celebrating old Poland. Inside the museum is the magnificent reproduction of the ceiling of a synagogue in the Ukraine.
Near the museum, still standing, is the only surviving synagogue in Warsaw. The White Stork synagogue building was saved because it was used for stabling horses.
You are bound to be taken past it on a general Warsaw city tour.
Jewish and Polish Favourite Food
If you take a specific tour of Jewish Warsaw, you can end at a Jewish restaurant. Most of the dishes you get in London restaurants are Ashkenazi (German and Northern and Eastern European). That means bagels and beetroot soup, dumplings and potato cakes.
As opposed to southern Sephardi (from the Spanish, including Portuguese and Italian Jewish areas, speaking Ladino), which means more rice and pasta.
Most of the dishes I thought were 'Jewish' turn out to be standard Polish fare. Beetroot soup was on the menu of most of the restaurants I visited on two trips to Warsaw. You have several kosher or Jewish style restaurants to choose from. See trip advisor for the latest reviews.
I was taken to Magat restaurant. Tel. (022) 624 99 24.
I suggest you find out what kosher or merely Jewish style food is available on your route, bearing in mind that arriving on sabbath or a Sunday Monday may affect what is open and whether it will be easy to get a table and if you have to book or arrive early.
(If in London go to the Jewish Museum in Camden Town, and/or try B & K Salt Beef bar and restaurant, Edgware or Hatch End. Not for the atmosphere, not for strictly kosher, just for filling food - chicken soup with kneilach - (dumplings), potato cakes, salt beef and lokshen pudding (noodle pudding). You can get food to takeaway and eat when you get home.
Famous Jews from Poland
We have lots of Poles living in London, UK. Who are the famous people worldwide who were born in Poland, brought up in Poland, or who had Polish ancestry?
Cohen, nicknamed Two Gun Cohen, from a Polish family. As a boy he went from London, England, to Canada, to China, hobnobbed with all the famous greats of China, and ended up back in England. buried up north.
Polanski, the film maker, who has immortalised a piano playing pole in the film The Pianist. Polanski has made many films, including Knife in the Water, Chinatown, Repulsion.
John Monash, Australian WWI hero, who has a university in Melbourne, Australia, named in his honour.
Jacob Epstein, the American-British sculptor.
Nelly Ben-Or, Holocaust survivor, who was hiding in Warsaw in WWII, now a renowned musician living in Northwood, England.
Max Factor Snr, who gave us the word make-up. He founded the international company.
Helena Rubinstein was born in Krakow, previously the capital of Poland.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel prize winner, writer.
Marie Rambert founded Ballet Rambert.
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.622797
(Article shows good pictures of the inside of the museum.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_the_History_of_Polish_Jews
I saw the museum being built on a tour of Warsaw. Huge and impressive. A wonderful new museum celebrating old Poland. Inside the museum is the magnificent reproduction of the ceiling of a synagogue in the Ukraine.
Near the museum, still standing, is the only surviving synagogue in Warsaw. The White Stork synagogue building was saved because it was used for stabling horses.
You are bound to be taken past it on a general Warsaw city tour.
Jewish and Polish Favourite Food
If you take a specific tour of Jewish Warsaw, you can end at a Jewish restaurant. Most of the dishes you get in London restaurants are Ashkenazi (German and Northern and Eastern European). That means bagels and beetroot soup, dumplings and potato cakes.
As opposed to southern Sephardi (from the Spanish, including Portuguese and Italian Jewish areas, speaking Ladino), which means more rice and pasta.
Most of the dishes I thought were 'Jewish' turn out to be standard Polish fare. Beetroot soup was on the menu of most of the restaurants I visited on two trips to Warsaw. You have several kosher or Jewish style restaurants to choose from. See trip advisor for the latest reviews.
I was taken to Magat restaurant. Tel. (022) 624 99 24.
I suggest you find out what kosher or merely Jewish style food is available on your route, bearing in mind that arriving on sabbath or a Sunday Monday may affect what is open and whether it will be easy to get a table and if you have to book or arrive early.
(If in London go to the Jewish Museum in Camden Town, and/or try B & K Salt Beef bar and restaurant, Edgware or Hatch End. Not for the atmosphere, not for strictly kosher, just for filling food - chicken soup with kneilach - (dumplings), potato cakes, salt beef and lokshen pudding (noodle pudding). You can get food to takeaway and eat when you get home.
Famous Jews from Poland
We have lots of Poles living in London, UK. Who are the famous people worldwide who were born in Poland, brought up in Poland, or who had Polish ancestry?
Cohen, nicknamed Two Gun Cohen, from a Polish family. As a boy he went from London, England, to Canada, to China, hobnobbed with all the famous greats of China, and ended up back in England. buried up north.
Polanski, the film maker, who has immortalised a piano playing pole in the film The Pianist. Polanski has made many films, including Knife in the Water, Chinatown, Repulsion.
John Monash, Australian WWI hero, who has a university in Melbourne, Australia, named in his honour.
Jacob Epstein, the American-British sculptor.
Nelly Ben-Or, Holocaust survivor, who was hiding in Warsaw in WWII, now a renowned musician living in Northwood, England.
Max Factor Snr, who gave us the word make-up. He founded the international company.
Helena Rubinstein was born in Krakow, previously the capital of Poland.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel prize winner, writer.
Marie Rambert founded Ballet Rambert.
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.622797
(Article shows good pictures of the inside of the museum.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_the_History_of_Polish_Jews
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