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Poland

Some 20,000 visitors attended the closing event of the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland, July 1, 2017. (Photo/Sue Barnett)
Posted inLocal Voice

Trip to Poland unexpectedly sparked pride in my Jewish identity

Mark Reisbaum by Mark Reisbaum August 2, 2017August 7, 2017
Moses Libitzky and a guide lead participants from the East Bay Federation trip through the Jewish cemetery on Lodz, Poland. (Photo/Courtesy Taube Philanthropies-Maciek Jazwiecki)
Posted inJewish Life

In trip to Lodz, East Bay group sees dark past, hopeful future

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett July 28, 2017April 20, 2024
Polish Jews - Anita Friedman stands in a doorway with an much older woman
Posted inJewish Life

‘This was your town’ — JFCS leader reclaims history in father’s Polish shtetl

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett July 27, 2017April 20, 2024
an old man with a bandaid on his forehead holds up his hand to block the sunlight
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV & Film

Deep memories of an ‘underground’ man in Buenos Aires animate late-in-life saga

by Michael Fox July 20, 2017March 23, 2018
Tad Taube
Posted inPhilanthropy

Moving mountains: Tad Taube, 86, is generous, strong-willed and determined to make his mark

by Dan Pine March 30, 2017September 25, 2025
Tad Taube (second from left) in Poland, where his foundation supports a number of projects, including the Krakow Jewish Festival and the Polin Museum.
Posted inBay Area, News

Taube Philanthropies announces first round of 2017 grants

by J. Staff February 16, 2017February 16, 2017
Posted inWorld, Jewish Life

Survivors give first concert in Poland

by JTA July 29, 2016March 2, 2017
Tomasz Cebulski explains Krakow's Temple Synagogue to Bay Area visitors. /Sue Fishkoff
Posted inWorld, Jewish Life

Guarding Poland’s Jewish past, building its future: Jews and non-Jews join in historic project

by Sue Fishkoff November 14, 2014October 25, 2019
Posted inLocal Voice

Holocaust witnesses hold keys to Polish history, but stories need to be unlocked

Morgan Blum Schneider, the director of the JFCS Holocaust Center, a program of Jewish Family
and Children’s Services. (Courtesy) by Morgan Blum Schneider September 6, 2013September 19, 2025

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