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YOU CAN DO ANYTHING IF YOU HAVE ENTHUSIASM

From an early age, I have always liked to explore other cultures. Interesting history, art, music and language are topics that I have always loved getting introduced to. A couple years ago, I had a chance to learn about a culture that completely captivated me. My first encounter with the Jewish culture was during the Jewish Culture Festival „Singer’s Warsaw” when I had the opportunity to see the theater play „Violinist on the roof”, I tried Jewish Chałka and listened some Jewish piece of music.  Luckily this year, as part of the Humanity in Action Warsaw Fellowship Program, alongside other participants, I had the opportunity to explore Jewish culture more thoroughly.  The Jews were always present in the Polish society. Before the war, Poland was a country where three million Jews lived, and it was one of the largest congregations of Jews in the world. Jews constituted about 10% of the general population. Unfortunately, mainly due to the execution of the Holocaust, the...