Polish Jewish Life Today with Marek Jezowski and Dominika Zakrzewska-Olędzka

<p>Marek Jezowski and Dominika Zakrzewska-Olędzka, members of Warsaw&#39;s progressive Jewish community, discuss their experiences reclaiming their Jewish identity in today’s Poland. Marek recounts fighting the 1982 government to register his daughter&#39;s Hebrew name, while Dominika shares her personal process of choosing the Jewish name Lilach. They describe navigating a linguistic landscape where Hebrew and Yiddish words like kippah and shul are integrated into daily conversations. </p><p>Heritage Words – conversations about the words we inherit and the meaning they bring to our lives – is produced by the HUC Jewish Language Project and HUC Connect.</p><p>Host and producer: Sarah Bunin Benor</p><p>Assistant producer: Kyle Elbaz Fingerhut</p><p>Editor: Avishay Artsy</p><p>Video editor: Talia Ehrenberg</p><p>Theme music: Maurice El Medioni’s French and Algerian Judeo-Arabic album “Cafe Oran,” featuring the Klezmatics’ David Krakauer and Frank London, courtesy of Piranha Records.</p>