Author: Nissan Tzur

Not for the first time, journalist and Krakow Post contributor Nissan Tzur has stirred up strong emotions with his reporting.

When it was announced that four Polish locations would host matches during the Euro 2012 football championship, Cracovians were disappointed

Krakow politician Jarosław Gowin was elected as one of 14 members of parliament for the Krakow constituency in 2007, and again four years later. He was appointed Minister of Justice by Prime Minister Donald Tusk in 2011 and looked to be on the path…

A ruling from Poland’s Constitutional Court effectively banning kosher and halal ritual slaughter came into effect in January this year. Aware that the government was planning legislation that would overturn the ban, the Jewish community in Krakow…

You’d be forgiven for not knowing that Krakow has an Islamic Centre. Tucked away on a side street north of

Krakow’s Montelupich Prison has been the scene of some of the darkest moments in the city’s recent history. British and Soviet spies, anti-Communist activists, high ranking Nazis and the victims of Nazi oppression have all found themselves behind its walls…

The spectre of violent political extremism intruded into Krakow’s quiet, academic world in November when Polish security services announced they had arrested a chemistry lecturer who had been planning to detonate a massive bomb outside the country’s parliament…

Twenty three years after the fall of Communism, Poland still refuses to do what it promised to do. The government of Poland will not pass a restitution law that would either return private property or compensate Jews and their heirs for assets seized…
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