Shortwave | New Jewish Culture In Poland

Seen around Kazimierz: posters announcing the 22nd Jewish Culture Festival. (Photo: Evelyn Tauben)

Seen around Krakow. (Photo: Evelyn Tauben)

Festival founder and director, Janusz Makuch and David Krakauer, acclaimed Jewish musician. (Photo provided courtesy of the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow)

Outside Alchemia by day, the hub for daily afterhours concerts of the festival. (Photo: Evelyn Tauben)

Jakub Nowakowski, Director of the Galicia Jewish Museum located in the Kazimierz district of Krakow. (Photo: Galicia Jewish Museum)

Musical Kabbalat Shabbat services of Beit Krakow hosted at the Galicia Jewish Museum on the first Shabbat of the festival. (Photo: Evelyn Tauben)

Peaking in on a concert at Cheder Cafe, the year-round hub of the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow. (Photo provided courtesy of the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow)

Ariel – complete with a giant menorah flanked by lions – one of a string of Jewish-themed restaurants on Szeroka Street. (Photo: Evelyn Tauben)

Magda Koralewska stands in the abandoned Beit Midrash that Beit Krakow hopes to transform into their new home. (Photo: Evelyn Tauben)

Having a drink on the rooftop cafe of the Judaica Foundation, a Jewish cultural centre located in a former beit midrash in Kazimierz. (Photo: Evelyn Tauben)

Klaudia Klimik and Evelyn Tauben in Warsaw on a break from the Nahum Goldmann Fellowship. (Photo: Evelyn Tauben)

At one of the festival's many workshops with Berlin-based Israeli musician Gad Hinkis Baruch. (Photo provided courtesy of the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow)

From the Swinging Ballroom Boat Party, one member of the Haferflocken Swingers plays to passers-by on the Vistula River. (Photo provided courtesy of the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow)

Macko Korba Ensemble from Poland debut a performance commissioned by the festival's Musical Laboratory of Jewish Culture, MuLaKuZ. (Photo provided courtesy of the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow)

David Krakauer performs with the Sinfonietta Cracovia to mark the 20th anniversary of his first performance at the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow. (Photo provided courtesy of the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow)

Jewish surf group from Poland, Alte Zachen, performing at the Tempel Synagogue. (Photo provided courtesy of the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow)

Late night at Alchemia with the Haferflocken Swingers from Germany. (Photo: Evelyn Tauben)

Frank London leading the rehearsal for the festival's 7-hour finale concert on Szeroka Street, known as the Jewish Woodstock. (Photo provided courtesy of the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow)

Taking a bow at the festival's finale concert. From left to right: Frank London, David Krakauer, Michael Alpert and Daniel Kahn. (Photo provided courtesy of the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow)

The festival's finale concert, Shalom on Szeroka Street. (Photo provided courtesy of the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow)