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Publication of The Lublin Israelite

Grant for the Grodzka Gate — NN Theatre Centre for the project of publishing The Lublin Israelite

For their book Izraelita Lubelski (The Lublin Israelite), named for a 19th-century weekly, Grodzka Gate — NN Theatre Centre collected and edited selected correspondence that Lublin Jews sent to this publication from 1866–1906, and a complete essay by Henryk Lew, O lecznictwie i przesądach leczniczych ludu żydowskiego (On the medicine and medical superstitions of the Jewish people), which had appeared in installments in the magazine. The book is illustrated with little-known woodcuts of 19th-century Lublin based on the work of Aleksander Gierymski.