Isaac Bashevis Singer Festival
The Isaac Bashevis Singer Festival is a festival of Jewish Culture that takes place each fall in Warsaw on Ul. Próżna which is the only street in the Jewish Ghetto that wasn't destroyed by the Nazis after the Ghetto and Warsaw Uprisings in 1943 and 1944. I missed it last year, but this year I made it. It's interesting to see a glimmer of what once was a way of life and bit of a culture that no longer exists in Warsaw. Definitely worth a visit if you happen to be in Warsaw in September. You can try traditional foods, listen to music, buy handicrafts and see performances that were characteristic of what once was the largest Jewish community in Europe. With people dressed in clothing from the 1930s and 40s, it was, in spite of the fun, a melancholy feeling to see what felt like ghosts from the past. By the way, Isaac Bashevis Singer was a writer (he wrote in Yiddish) and among many other works wrote the story that the movie "Yentl" was based on.
