Spark Among the Ashes: A Bar Mitzvah in Polandmediadocumentary
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Maria Jakubowicz, one of 600 elderly Jew still living in Cracow, Poland, was visited by a contingent of American Jews some years ago. They asked if there was anything they could send her, naively thinking she might like a new winter coat. Her request: to see once more the bar mitzvah of a Jewish boy in Cracow. Spark Among the Ashes records their response to her extraordinary wish. The first Polish bar mitzvah in more than 20 years is ... [+]