Meeting with Ewa Kuryluk in Cracow

Maria Zawadzka, 16 November 2016
As part of the next Bayit Hadash Month of Encounters with Jewish Culture organized by the Center for Jewish Culture in Cracow, on October 12th, 2010 at 6 pm will take place a meeting with Ewa Kuryluk, author of the books „Goldi” (2004) and „Frascati” (2009), nominated to the Nike Literary Award, daughter of the Righteous Among the Nations Karol Kuryluk. This event, entitled “Women in the »Signals« – a meeting with Ewa Kuryluk” will take place in the seat of the Center, at 17 Meiselsa Street in the Cracow district of Kazimierz.

Ewa Kuryluk is a painter, writer and art historian. She participated in about 40 individual and 60 collective exhibitions. She is author of  books in which she presents subjects such as the extermination of Jews in Poland, Polish-Jewish relations and the Righteous Among the Nations. In her book  „Frascati” Ewa Kuryluk writes about her Polish-Jewish family, among others her father Karol Kuryluk, who was posthumously honored with the title ”Righteous Among the Nations”. During the Second World War he organized escapes from the Lviv Ghetto – he looked for hiding places for Jews and organized the so-called Aryan papers. He helped rescue many people, among them Peppa Frauenglas and her two sons Józef and Marian. Before the Second World War he founded the “Sygnały” (“Signals”) magazine – between 1933 and 1939 he was its editor-in-chief. He was a journalist, publisher and social activist. He died in Budapest on December 9th, 1967.

The Bayit Hadash (New Home) Month of Encounters with Jewish Culture has been organized by the Center for Jewish Culture in Cracow since 1996. As part of this event, numerous concerts, lectures and meetings with authors take place. The Bayit Hadash is organized in the first month of the Jewish year – Tishri, during the High Holidays – and is usually devoted to one personage (e.g., Franz Kafka, Mordechai Gebirtig) or topic (Jewish Galicia). This year the main subject of the Month of Encounters is the 65th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The Center for Jewish Culture was founded in the Kazimierz district of Cracow on November 24th, 1993. Its main goals are: to preserve the Jewish heritage in the Kazimierz district of Cracow, to develop Polish-Jewish dialogue, to promote the values of an open civil society and to disseminate knowledge of the history and culture of the Polish Jews among young people. The full program of the next Month of Encounters with Jewish Culture can be found on the website of the Judaica Foundation – Center for Jewish Culture.