Author: Gil Zohar

Gil Zohar is a Jerusalem-based journalist who has written for The Jerusalem Post, Segula magazine and Religion Unplugged.

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From Hasidic Shtetl To Catholic Utopia, A Portrait Of Poland’s “New Jerusalem”

Jesus carries the cross, a scene from a reenactment of the Way of the Cross in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska onn Friday, March 30, 2018, in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Poland.
Jesus carries the cross, a scene from a reenactment of the Way of the Cross in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska onn Friday, March 30, 2018, in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Poland.

Poland’s historic “New Jerusalem” once housed a vibrant Hasidic Jewish community before being destruction in the horrors of the Holocaust.

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