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

JL;DR SUMMARY Dariusz Stola has been reinstated as director of the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, seven years after being ousted by Poland's then-nationalist government. 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 HistoryPolandPolin MuseumHistorical NarrativeNationalismLaw And Justice PartyDariusz Stola1968 Polish CrisisPiotr Glinski

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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."

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