The Galicia Jewish Museum’s Two Worlds Polish-Israeli educational project focuses on Ze’ev Aleksandrowicz, a photographer from Kraków born into a respected Jewish family, who settled in Tel Aviv in the 1930s. His 1930s photographs, taken in both Poland and in Eretz Israel, became an inspiration and a starting point for this project.

This project was made possible thanks to the five-year-long cooperation between High School no. 16 in Kraków, Ha-Rishonim High School in Herzliya, and the Galicia Jewish Museum. The students from both schools are discovering the amazing work of Ze’ev Aleksandrowicz. Polish students followed Aleksandrowicz’s footsteps in Kraków, and later—together with Israeli friends from Herzliya—continued his itinerary in Israel. The culmination of the project is a photographic exhibition created by the project’s participants, entitled Two worlds. A New look at Ze’ev Aleksandrowicz’s Photographs; this student exhibition is a creative answer to the photo exhibition of Ze’ev Aleksandrowicz, on display at the Galicia Jewish Museum in 2011-2012, entitled Poland and Palestine. Two Lands and Two Skies.

The Polish-Israeli youth exchange was made possible due to the financial support from the Polish Ministry of Education.