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Jewish press of prewar Łódź - three Yiddish dailies and the world's oldest chess newspaper

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Jewish press of prewar Łódź - three Yiddish dailies and the world's oldest chess newspaper

Which Yiddish dailies were published in interwar Łódź, and why the world's first Yiddish chess newspaper was founded there.

Sieradz - a Jewish street 600 years old and the cemetery on Zakładników street

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Sieradz - a Jewish street 600 years old and the cemetery on Zakładników street

The story of Jewish Sieradz - a 600-year-old Jewish street, a surviving synagogue and the cemetery on Zakładników Street.

Traces of Jewish Pabianice - what remains of the town of weavers

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Traces of Jewish Pabianice - what remains of the town of weavers

What traces of Pabianice's Jewish history - a street name, a cemetery and the memory of a destroyed synagogue - survive today.

Stacja Radegast - the place from which trains left for the death camps

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Stacja Radegast - the place from which trains left for the death camps

The history of Radegast station, from which Litzmannstadt Ghetto residents were deported to death camps, and today's museum there.

The Reicher Synagogue in Łódź - the only one to survive the war

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The Reicher Synagogue in Łódź - the only one to survive the war

The story of Łódź's Reicher Synagogue, the only prewar synagogue saved from Nazi destruction by its owner's ruse.

Jewish theatre in pre-war Łódź - from courtyard troupes to the golden age of the interwar years

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Jewish theatre in pre-war Łódź - from courtyard troupes to the golden age of the interwar years

How Yiddish theatre in Łódź grew from 19th-century traveling troupes into its golden age between the world wars.

Great Synagogue in Piotrków Trybunalski - the Best-Preserved Synagogue in Poland

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Great Synagogue in Piotrków Trybunalski - the Best-Preserved Synagogue in Poland

The Great Synagogue of Piotrków Trybunalski, considered Poland's best-preserved synagogue, and what it houses today.

Wieluń, 1 September 1939 - the destroyed synagogue

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Wieluń, 1 September 1939 - the destroyed synagogue

How the German bombing of Wieluń on 1 September 1939 destroyed the town's synagogue on the very first day of the war.

Contemporary Jewish life in Łódź - the community, the synagogue and the Centre for Dialogue

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Contemporary Jewish life in Łódź - the community, the synagogue and the Centre for Dialogue

What Jewish life in Łódź looks like today, from the Jewish community and Reicher Synagogue to the Edelman Dialogue Centre.

Zduńska Wola - a Jewish textile town and its cemetery

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Zduńska Wola - a Jewish textile town and its cemetery

The history of Jewish Zduńska Wola, once a third of the town's residents, and the surviving cemetery on Kacza street.

Zgierz - the synagogue that collapsed by itself

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Zgierz - the synagogue that collapsed by itself

The fate of Zgierz's synagogue, from a 19th-century legend of its collapse to its burning by the Germans in wartime.

The Jewish factory owners of Łódź who get less attention

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The Jewish factory owners of Łódź who get less attention

Lesser-known Jewish industrialists of Łódź beyond Poznański, from Silberstein to Rozenblatt, Budzyner and the Ejtingons.

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"Mały Robot" w Teatrze Piccolo - dla grup zorganizowanych