Daily Podcasts Video Research

Poland’s Jewish museum director returns, 7 years after being pushed out by nationalist politics

JL;DR SUMMARY Dariusz Stola, the first director of the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, has been reappointed after being ousted by Poland's previous nationalist government in 2019. 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'.

JL;DR members get full summaries of all articles in the archive, including this one. Donate & start reading »

Tags

HolocaustPolin MuseumLaw And Justice PartyPolish Jewish RelationsPolish HistoryDariusz StolaNationalist PoliticsMarta CienkowskaDonald Tusk

Places mentioned

Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"Dariusz Stola steered the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw from its founding in 2014 to become a breakthrough in Polands recognition of its extinguished Jewish past."

Support this source

This item was indexed and curated by Cairo, JL;DR's web crawler.
Cairo Item ID 76335
Cairo Source ID 42
Retrieved 2026-02-26 18:00:28 UTC
Curated 2026-02-26 19:00:59 UTC