Shana Penn

Shana Penn directs Taube Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture, which is a major patron of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Penn’s book Sekret Solidarnosci was published by W.A.B. in May 2015.

Poland

Daffodils replace yellow stars as Poland honors 75th anniversary of ghetto uprising

“While the former ghetto is certainly a geographical place of memory, as Elie Wiesel once said — a memory of overt violence — it is also a place of cultural resistance.”

Shana PennMay 11, 2018, 8:54 amMay 11, 2018

Poland

Museum of the History of Polish Jews: “Now can we rest!”

This week’s grand opening of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews marks the moment when we realize the stigmas have loosened their hold on us.

Shana PennOctober 29, 2014, 7:40 pmJune 14, 2017

Life in Skoda’s Factory Town

Czechia, Slovakia, and some lessons learned

Czechia loses a voice, a university tries to lose its voice, and the PM voices a complaint

Abortions, amnesties and accusations: September in Czech and Slovak politics

Moving a statue the Czech way

The Future of European Gender Politics

Orbán sides with Erdoğan against the thousands of Hungarians protesting in solidarity with Rojava

Behind Viktor Orbán’s Surprise Defeat

Doomed to Failure: Orban’s neoconservative family policies in Hungary

Pockets of resistance in Orbán’s Hungary

Poland’s Changing Climate Activists

Under Attack: Reproductive Rights in Poland

Hope and Fear in LGBT Poland

Political Cynicism: The Case of Poland

Poland’s Future: A view from the countryside

Czechia, Slovakia, and some lessons learned

Abortions, amnesties and accusations: September in Czech and Slovak politics

Slovakia: Restricted cinema in the era of economic transformation

The White Dream of Marian Kotleba

Where are you going, Slovakia?

BLACK CLOUD – KYIV BIENNIAL 2019

What Europe Does Ukraine need?

Different languages and symbols but still our common fight

A New Lexicon for a New International

Against National Vigilante

Shana Penn

Daffodils replace yellow stars as Poland honors 75th anniversary of ghetto uprising

Museum of the History of Polish Jews: “Now can we rest!”