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Robert Niczewski Warsaw...
...Budapest, Prague, Warsaw, Moscow, Bratislava, Berlin, in hundreds of towns and villages from the Baltic to the Black Sea, Jewish communities are re-emerging and coming together in a kind of Continental minyan, the quorum required for the holding of religious services. Synagogues and schools are rising again, some on the foundations of Jewish institutions dating from the Middle Ages. Jews are proudly calling themselves Jews once more, reviving traditions and cultures long buried in the ashes of Hitler's ovens. ``That now there is the possibility to be a Jew is mystical,'' says 18-year-old Igor Czernikow...
Polish schools are beginning to deal with the long-suppressed history of the country's Jews. The mournful music of Golda Tencer, a singer at Warsaw's Yiddish Theater for 23 years, is occasionally featured on television. Last year 120 non-Jewish children signed up to learn her music. Tencer recalls a recent essay contest sponsored by the Polish ministry of education on the subject ``One Thousand Years of Jews in Poland.'' ``We thought maybe 100 or 200 would participate,'' she says. ``There were...
Wojtyla is another mountaineer, from the Carpathian foothills near Cracow. This splendid medieval and Renaissance city, with its ancient Jagiellonian University -- which Wojtyla attended -- was the center of his youthful universe. Warsaw, the modern capital of Poland, meant little to him, and the summit of his clerical ambition was reached when he became Cardinal-Archbishop of Cracow. As Pope, he is a Pole, as Roncalli was an Italian. But both men, as instinctive regionalists, have repudiated modern nationalism and have tended to see Europe as an amalgam of historic regions -- a microcosm of a world of peoples rather than...
...quick stop in Budapest, Hungary, welcomed the kick off of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with a schedule for scuttling 9,000 U.S. and former Soviet nuclear warheads by the turn of the century, Boris Yeltsin complained about NATO's vote last week to consider membership for former Warsaw Pact nations. "Why sow the seeds of distrust?" Yeltsin rhetorically asked. "After all, we are no longer enemies. We are all partners." He warned that NATO's action could force progress against the Cold War to "sink into oblivion." A Clinton Administration official dismissed Yeltsin's criticism as "alarmist...