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Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków: what Wikipedia removed

The Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków is an annual event held in the city’s former Jewish district since 1988. In 2005 the opening described the festival’s purpose as “a way to prevent or fight anti-Semitism.” Today the opening says the festival’s goal is to educate people about Jewish culture, history and faith, and the word appears nowhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that the festival was described as a way to fight antisemitism.

The word “antisemitism” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

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Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

  • The description of the festival as a way to prevent or fight antisemitism is gone from the article.
  • The list of artists associated with the festival was reworded or moved, though performer names still appear in some form.

2005 (revision 16433287):

The Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków ( Polish : Festiwal Kultury Żydowskiej w Krakowie , Yiddish : יירשער קולטור – פעסטיוואל אין קראָקע ) is an annual cultural event organized since 1988 in the once Jewish district of Kazimierz (part of Kraków ) by the Jewish Culture Festival Society headed by Janusz Makuch. The main goal of the festival is to educate people about Jewish culture, history and faith ( Judaism ), which flourished in Poland before the Holocaust , as well as to familiarize them with modern Jewish culture developing mostly in the United States and Israel , and finally, to provide entertainment. Each festival is held in late June or early July and takes nine days, from Saturday to …

2025 (revision 1286625625):

“Shalom in Szeroka Street”, the final concert of the 15th Jewish Festival. The Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków ( Polish : Festiwal Kultury Żydowskiej w Krakowie , Yiddish : ייִדישער קולטור־פֿעסטיוואַל אין קראָקע ) is an annual cultural event organized since 1988 in the once Jewish district of Kazimierz (part of Kraków ) by the Jewish Culture Festival Society headed by Janusz Makuch , a self-described meshugeneh (“crazy person”), fascinated with all things Jewish. The main goal of the festival is to educate people about Jewish culture , history, and faith (Judaism), which flourished in Poland before the Holocaust , as well as to familiarize them with modern Jewish culture, developing mostly…

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