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"Planet POLIN: Multicultural Stories of Polish Jews" is a 6-episode series of documentaries. It presents how, over the centuries, Jews who lived in Poland (Polin) used to coexist with other nations, cultures and religions.
The leading motif of the Planet POLIN series is the multiculturalism of Polish Jews. They lived for centuries in the land of Polin, a true Tower of Babel, one of the most ethnically, religiously and culturally mixed states in Europe. They retained their distinctiveness while interacting on a wide scale with other residents of the Babel and with the outside world.
Episode 1. Heaven’s gates. Wooden tent-like synagogues
In this episode, we show how Islamic art and the Great Steppe’s cultural heritage influenced the architecture of Polish Jews over the centuries. The episode’s "main protagonist" is the beautifully reconstructed wooden tent-like synagogue from Gwoździec in Ukraine, one of POLIN Museum’s greatest attractions. Synagogues built in this style originated in the 18th century in Ukraine, on the border of the then Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate. This type of Jewish temples then spread throughout East-Central Europe, growing in popularity across the entire region.
"Planet POLIN: Multicultural Stories of Polish Jews" is a 6-episode series of documentaries. It presents how, over the centuries, Jews who lived in Poland (Polin) used to coexist with other nations, cultures and religions.
Moreover, through their travels and migrations, Jews from Polin maintained intensive contacts with abroad. This meeting contributed to (often unprecedented) mutual intermingling of Polish-Jewish culture with that of other nations. As Wilhelm Berkelhammer (1889-1934), Jewish journalist and Zionist activist, rightly noted:
"[…] all nations have their peripheries, which are the meeting points with other nations, that is with other national cultures, strictly limited in geographical terms. We, Jews, scattered all over the globe, have so many peripheries that, really, that is all we have, just peripheries, I mean wherever we live, we live in the borderlands, […] we come into contact with a foreign culture everywhere."
Adam Balcer and Paweł Sulik, authors of the podcast titled "Babel. Rzeczpospolita multi-kulti" [Babel. Multicultural Commonwealth] on TOK FM radio station, are authors of the series, produced as part of POLIN Museum’s 10th birthday celebration.