Częstochowa TSKŻ Celebrates Chanukkah
Source: TSKŻ Częstochowa
As every year, Częstochowa’s Jewish community, as well as the city’s supporters of Jewish culture, took part in a celebration of Chanukkah.
The festival commemorates the recovery of Jerusalem and the subsequent re-dedication of the Second Temple at the beginning of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BCE.
The candle-lighting ceremony, a concert and refreshments were organised, in its social rooms, by the Częstochowa branch of the Social and Cultural Association of Jews in Poland (TSKŻ).
This years’ event featured a Chanukah Song Concert, entitled “Chanuke is frejlach, Chanuke is szejn“, performed by Urszula Makoshka, with the band members Paweł Perzchała, Michał Półtorak, and Oleg Dyyak.
The beautiful venue for the event, the TSKŻ social rooms, is in the same building as the Jewish Museum of Częstochowa, located ul Katedralna 8, in the Częstochowa Old Town.