Several private donors to Poland’s Jewish history museum have suspended funding amid uncertainty over who will lead it, a Polish Jewish group said. The suspension is connected to concern that the government would not extend the tenure of Dariusz Stola, the director of the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Piotr Wislicki, head of…
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