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itage of Jews in the Lublin Region. It was a workshop and educational event and its
highlight was a trip along the traces of heritage 3 .
Another meeting of the same character was the international conference, Education
for Reconciliation, held in 2001 by the Centre in collaboration with the Carnegie
Council, New York, and the Jagiellonian University.
Another initiative was the internet programme, which led to the development of
the website, Virtual Educational Centre - Lublin Memory, accessible at www.pamiecmiejsca.tnn.pl.
Visitors may browse for information on the Lublin Jewish community in
the Gate of Remembrance section, and also in the texts from the Virtual Library as well
as among the compilation of the Photography Archive and Spoken History Archive.
Next, under the Culture 2000 European Programme another project with an informative
character was launched. The project, Life of Jews in Europe away from
Metropolis, was introduced together with German and Dutch institutions which, just
as with the Centre, seek to preserve Jewish cultural heritage. As a result, a website was
created offering tri-lingual content accessible at www.zydzi-zycie.net.
The centre publishes a periodical, Scriptores (a successor of Scriptores Scholarum
quarterly). The issues 27 "Lublin" and 28 "Along the Memory Paths" offer articles discussing
the history, culture and social issues related to the local Jewish community.
The Centre also promotes books and periodicals, documentaries and radio reports,
literary meetings and art exhibitions.
3. Art Projects
Ever since its beginnings, the Centres activities have been accompanied by the
operation of the NN Theatre, an alternative theatre group which in the years 1990
to 1996 staged several plays (e.g. Heavenly Walk, Too Loud Loneliness) based on
"underground-circulated" literary works. In 2001 the NN Theatre began a new project
- a series of monodramas relying on old Chassidic stories supplemented with a dash of
Jewish folklore. Current performances include, 'Once upon a time there was...', 'How
Fajwł was looking for himself, and 'Tajbełe and the Demon.
Among the art projects, there were documentary exhibitions, the Great City Book
(opened 1998), and the presently available, the Local Portrait (opened 1999). The
latter has a multi-media formula and through the photographic sections (panoramic
views of the Jewish district and pictures of individual buildings) and the audio sections
(parts of the Spoken History, pre-war city sounds, Yiddish songs) it restores the atmos-
3 Thanks to the financial support of the Project Guggenheim it was possible to issue an anthology of lessons'
scenarios devoted to this subject. See Dziedzictwo kulturowe Żydów na Lubelszczyźnie. Materiały
dla nauczycieli. Kubiszyn M., Żuk G., Adamczyk-Garbowska M. (red. merytoryczna); Żurek S. J. (spec.
ed.), Lublin 2003.
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