Inside the Ringelblum Archive

Published: April 19, 2013, 4 a.m.

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This week, Tablet is reporting from Warsaw, which is commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The new Museum of the History of Polish Jews, opening today after formal ceremonies, is a spectacular glass-and-concrete structure\\u2014still empty, for the most part\\u2014that has been 20 years in the making, at a cost of more than 100 million dollars.

Proponents of the museum believe it represents a huge step forward in healing Polish-Jewish relations. Critics say it\\u2019s too Jewish, or not Jewish enough. The one thing that everyone seems to agree on is that, like it or not, this museum\\u2014which will rely on multimedia exhibits to tell its story\\u2014is not, and will never be, a home to artifacts. Yet about a mile away, on a slightly run-down side street, sits an...


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