Elisha Russ-Fishbane

Jul 9, 2023 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | David Engel |Elisha Russ-Fishbane |Agnieszka Traczewska |Shai Secunda

Visitors to Warsaw’s splendid POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews pass through a section of the core exhibition titled On the Jewish Street. Devoted to the years between 1918 and 1939, a brief interval of Polish independence between two eras of foreign rule, it depicts, according to an accompanying catalog essay, “a modern Jewish world . . .