News & Events

The ASPJ, in conjunction with FestivALT, presented a compelling webinar about KulturDocs – a new online documentary series, produced by FestivALT, which explores the vibrant world of contemporary Jewish artists in Poland.

At the Glen Eira Town Hall Theatrette in Melbourne, the ASPJ was honoured to present an evening with Dr. Michał Trębacz, Acting Director of the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny (the Jewish Historical Institute) in Warsaw.

At the Kadimah Theatre in Melbourne, the ASPJ hosted a concert of works by Friedman and Weinberg, twentieth century Jewish-Polish composers. The performance featured artists Karolina Mikołajczyk and Iwo Jedenecki.

HAYNT is the magazine of the Australian Society of Polish Jews and Their Descendants. It is published three times annually and features articles on the ASPJ’s activities, as well as articles on Polish-Jews issues in Australia and Poland.

HAYNT is the magazine of the Australian Society of Polish Jews and Their Descendants. It is published three times annually and features articles on the ASPJ’s activities, as well as articles on Polish-Jews issues in Australia and Poland.

In conjunction with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Australia, the ASPJ was extremely pleased to host the screening of “Polmission – Passports’s Secrets” at the newly-renovated Melbourne Holocaust Museum.

HAYNT is the magazine of the Australian Society of Polish Jews and Their Descendants. It is published three times annually and features articles on the ASPJ’s activities, as well as articles on Polish-Jews issues in Australia and Poland.

HAYNT is the magazine of the Australian Society of Polish Jews and Their Descendants. It is published three times annually and features articles on the ASPJ’s activities, as well as articles on Polish-Jews issues in Australia and Poland.

In 2023, the ASPJ held its Genealogy Open Day in both Sydney and Melbourne, featuring special guest, Polish genealogist and historian, Michał Majewski, who provided the audience with valuable research information.

The first Circle Social Club function, held on 5th November 2022, at the Czech Club in Melbourne, was a night of jazz music, featuring performers Lisa Marmur, Adrian Whyte and Trent McKenzie. It was a night of music, conversation and entertainment.

HAYNT is the magazine of the Australian Society of Polish Jews and Their Descendants. It is published three times annually and features articles on the ASPJ’s activities, as well as articles on Polish-Jews issues in Australia and Poland.

It is with immense sadness that we mourn the passing of David Prince z"l - Holocaust Survivor - a founding and, until his passing, continuing member of the Board of Management of the Australian Society of Polish Jews & Their Descendants.

The ASPJ sincerely congratulates the great friend of the ASPJ, Dariusz Popiela, on being named winner of the 2021 POLIN Award, presented at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. In 2022, we hope to welcome Dariusz to Australia.

Melbourne’s Beth Weizmann Jewish Community was the venue for a dynamic and vibrant afternoon of animations and music celebrating the diversity of Polish Jewish life before 1939, conceived and produced by ASPJ Vice-President Estelle Rozinski.

HAYNT is the magazine of the Australian Society of Polish Jews and Their Descendants. It is published three times annually and features articles on the ASPJ’s activities, as well as articles on Polish-Jews issues in Australia and Poland.

In a COVID-safe event held at Melbourne’s Beth Weizmann Jewish Community Centre, members of the Jewish and Polish communities came together for the presentation of the ASPJ’s 2021 Henryk Sławik Award to Arnold Zable.

HAYNT is the magazine of the Australian Society of Polish Jews and Their Descendants. It is published three times annually and features articles on the ASPJ’s activities, as well as articles on Polish-Jews issues in Australia and Poland.

The ASPJ sincerely congratulates the great friend of the ASPJ, Dariusz Popiela, on being named winner of the 2021 POLIN Award, presented at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. In 2022, we hope to welcome Dariusz to Australia.

HAYNT is the magazine of the Australian Society of Polish Jews and Their Descendants. It is published three times annually and features articles on the ASPJ’s activities, as well as articles on Polish-Jews issues in Australia and Poland.

The ASPJ sincerely congratulates one of our co-founders, Izydor Marmur, on being awarded an OAM, in the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours list, for his service to the Jewish community.

HAYNT is the magazine of the Australian Society of Polish Jews and Their Descendants. It is published three times annually and features articles on the ASPJ’s activities, as well as articles on Polish-Jews issues in Australia and Poland.

Andrzej Soszyński has been appointed as the new Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Victoria. He commences his mission on 16th February 2021. He is a past president of the Polish Association in Hobart, prior to moving to Victoria.

ASPJ President, Ezra May, featured in an online conversation with Executive Director of the Kraków JCC, Jonathan Ornstein. Their discussion includes the history and composition of Australia's Jewish community and the role that the ASPJ plays within it.

HAYNT is the magazine of the Australian Society of Polish Jews and Their Descendants. It is published three times annually and features articles on the ASPJ’s activities, as well as articles on Polish-Jews issues in Australia and Poland.

To mark the Jewish New Year, the Polish Ambassador to Australia, His Excellency Mr. Michał Kołodziejski, has sent his regards and warm wishes to the Jewish community, especially to the members and friends of our organisation.

On 27th September 2020, after twenty five years of service, Dr George Łuk-Kozika OAM steps down from his role as Honorary Consul-General of the Republic of Poland in Victoria. He was the first recipient of the ASPJ's Henryk Sławik Award.

HAYNT is the magazine of the Australian Society of Polish Jews and Their Descendants. It is published three times annually and features articles on the ASPJ’s activities, as well as articles on Polish-Jews issues in Australia and Poland.

It is with great excitement and anticipation that the ASPJ has entered into a partnership with FestivALT, an independent, arts collective which produces a program of critically-acclaimed, Jewish art and activism in Kraków, Poland.

It was with great sorrow that we learned of the passing of Marian Pawlik OAM, President of the Polish Community Council of Victoria and great friend of the ASPJ. Rest in peace Marian. Shalom chaver! May your memory be a blessing to all who knew you.

For the past eleven years, Bernard has served the ASPJ as its Founding President, President, Co-President, Vice-President and Board member. However, he has felt that now was the right time for him to step down and allow others to take the reins.

The Coronovirus COVID-19 has affected all our lives. In 2020, Passover and Easter have coincided across the same dates - we are all celebrating our holidays, this year, in an unaccustomed manner. The ASPJ sends this message to the community:

The ASPJ and AIPA have written a joint letter to the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Professor Piotr Gliński, expressing their concern over the delay in appointing a Director of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

At Melbourne’s Beth Weizmann Jewish Community Centre, members of the Jewish and Polish communities, members of the Consular Corps and paliamentarians came together for the presentation of the ASPJ’s 2019 Henryk Sławik Award to Natalie Suleyman MP.

To mark the Jewish New Year, the Polish Ambassador to Australia, His Excellency Mr. Michał Kołodziejski, has sent his regards and warm wishes to the Jewish community, especially to the members and friends of our organisation.

The Beth Weizmann Jewish Community Centre auditorium, in Melbourne, was filled for the ASPJ's first Genealogy Open Day featuring special guest, Polish genealogist and historian, Michał Majewski, who provided the audience with valuable research…

ASPJ Co-Presidents Bernard Korbman and Ezra May, together with Co-Vice-President, Izy Marmur, met today with the next Australian Ambassador to Poland, Lloyd Brodrick, prior to his departure for Warsaw. Their discussion included several important…

Our Moshe Fiszman z"l, ASPJ foundation Board member, has been posthumously honoured with an OAM in the 2019 Queen's Birthday honours list. Our Polish friends, Zygmunt Bielinski and Dr Sylvia Greda-Bogusz, have also both been awarded an OAM .

It is with immense sadness that we mourn the passing of Moshe Fiszman z"l - Holocaust Survivor - a founding and, until his passing, continuing member of the Board of Management of the Australian Society of Polish Jews & Their Descendants.

An almost capacity crowd of 200 filled the hall at the Caulfield campus of Monash University to hear our Inaugural and 2019 ASPJ Oration delivered by Professor Dariusz Stola, Director of Warsaw's POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

The Henryk Sławik Award is presented in honour of the spirit of the life and deeds of Henryk Sławik, (saving over thirty thousand lives in occupied Hungary, five thousand of those being Jews). The Board of Management of the ASPJ has decided to honour…

The ASPJ took the opportunity to promotes ourselves at Melbourne Jewish community's "In One Voice" event held in Elsternwick on Sunday 18th March 2018. While the pics here show pleasant weather, it did turn a little nasty during the day. But despite…

In its final event for 2017, ASPJ President Izydor Marmur (pic right) introduced Founder and Director of the Kraków Festival of Jewish Culture, Janusz Makuch, in conversation with Melbourne writer Arnold Zable. In 2008, Janusz became the first recipient…

The Henryk Sławik Award is presented in honour of the spirit of the life and deeds of Henryk Sławik, (saving over thirty thousand lives in occupied Hungary, five thousand of those being Jews). The ASPJ's Board of Management of the ASPJ has decided to…

The Henryk Sławik Award is presented in honour of the spirit of the life and deeds of Henryk Sławik, (saving over thirty thousand lives in occupied Hungary, five thousand of those being Jews). The ASPJ's Board of Management of the ASPJ has decided to…

The Henryk Sławik Award is presented in honour of the spirit of the life and deeds of Henryk Sławik, (saving over thirty thousand lives in occupied Hungary, five thousand of those being Jews). The ASPJ's Board of Management of the ASPJ has decided to…

The subject of Polish-Jewish relations and dialogue in contemporary Poland drew over 150 people from Melbourne's Polish and Jewish communities to hear Andrzej Folwarczny, founder and CEO of Poland's Forum For Dialogue.

Around 250 people from Melbourne's Polish and Jewish communities filled the auditorium of the Beth Weizmann Jewish Community Centre in Melbourne for the Australian premiere screening of the POLIN Museum's film "Ocaleni" (The Rescued) and for the Official…

The Henryk Sławik Award is presented in honour of the spirit of the life and deeds of Henryk Sławik, (saving over thirty thousand lives in occupied Hungary, five thousand of those being Jews). The ASPJ's Board of Management of the ASPJ has decided to…

The Henryk Sławik Award is presented in honour of the spirit of the life and deeds of Henryk Sławik, (saving over thirty thousand lives in occupied Hungary, five thousand of those being Jews). The ASPJ's Board of Management of the ASPJ has decided to…

The ASPJ was pivileged to host Rabbi Maciej Pawlak's visit to Melbourne, intended to highlight the fact that there is an emerging Jewish community in Poland and that, like him, every day in Poland, someone else discovers their own Jewish identity.