Lauder – Morasha School is a
Jewish day school in
Warsaw
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,
Poland
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.
History
The school was established by the
Ronald S. Lauder foundation in 1994, following the success of the Lauder Kindergarten created in 1989. It is the first school under Jewish auspices in Warsaw since 1949. In 2007, its enrollment was 240 students, ranging in age from three to sixteen years old (pre-school to Grade 9).
The school's founding director was Helise E. Lieberman (1994–2006); the second director (2006-2017) was Polish-born Rabbi Maciej Pawlak.
The current director of the pre-school is Anna Szyc; the grade school and upper division are under the directorship of Anna Grządkowska.
The school is not a religious academy; students are taught
Hebrew
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and Jewish tradition and culture (in addition to the complete standard Polish curriculum), but there are no compulsory religious activities.
The school's historic building was designed by
Henryk Stifelman and served as a facility for Jewish senior citizens prior to World War Two. Its ruins were restored for the school by the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation.
Sister schools
The Lauder-Morasha School has a sister school, Lauder Etz Chaim, in the western Polish city of
Wrocław
Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...
, constituting another part of a larger Lauder school network of 36 schools and kindergartens in sixteen Central and Eastern European countries from
Germany
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to
Russia
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and from
Estonia
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to
Bulgaria
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.
Additionally, the Lauder Foundation operates the Lauder E-School in Poland. Headquartered in
Łódź
Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of cant ...
in central Poland, ''E-Szkoła'' (as it's known in Polish) provides supplemental
distant learning courses to Polish-speaking children who cannot attend either of the full-time Jewish day schools.
E-Szkoła web site
(in Polish), visited 2018-05-11
See also
* History of the Jews of Poland
* Israel–Poland relations
* Lauder Schools of Prague
The Lauder Schools of Prague are the only Jewish schools in Prague and in the entire Czech Republic. The schools consists of an elementary school called The Lauder Gur Arje Jewish Day School and a secondary school called The Lauder Or Chadaš Jewis ...
References
External links
* http://www.rslfoundation.org/html/ourwork/ourwork_poland.htm
* http://www.karlschatz.com/photoprojects/poland.shtml photoproject
Warsaw school
E-Szkoła
Educational institutions established in 1994
Jewish day schools
Jewish schools in Poland
Jews and Judaism in Warsaw
1994 establishments in Poland
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