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On a roots journey from NYC to Poland, I packed my great-grandfather’s tallis

JL;DR SUMMARY Stuart Schear describes a meaningful journey to Poland with his cousins, echoing the themes of Jesse Eisenberg's film "A Real Pain." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryHolocaustPolandPolin MuseumInclusionCultural HeritageFamily HeritageTallisMax LangNowy Zmigrod

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New York City, New York, United States
"Like Dave and Benji, the oddly matched cousins in Jesse Eisenbergs new feature film, A Real Pain, I recently embarked with five of my American Jewish cousins on an unusual family heritage journey to Poland."
Nowy Żmigród, Warmia-Masuria, Poland
"Max was born in 1884 into a Hasidic family of bakers in Nowy Zmigrod, a small town now located in southeast Poland."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"Still, the idea of returning Maxs tallis to Poland inspired us, and we decided to offer it to the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Located in Warsaw, the museum is dedicated to telling the 1,000-year-history of the Jews of Poland in all its complexity."

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