On October 26, September, a scandalous event was to occur. Under the honorary patronage of the Primate of Poland Archbishop Wojciech Polak, Polish children were to sing judaic synagonal songs in the church. Moreover, these songs were to be sung in German. The double profanation – Polish and religious, was prevented by writer David Mysior. Polish-speaking judaic and Sabesgoan communities do not usually hide outrage.
Successful protest by children from September 2.0! About the planned concert, Poles learned from the podcast of David Mysior called Wielka Polska Catholica. The author commented with outrage on the planned concert, in which Polish children were to sing in a church in the celebrated September, judaic songs in German. He went a step further and He wrote a petition, then sent by its viewers to the organizers of the controversial event, the municipal authorities, the bishop's curia and the local, modernist parish priest.
Below we decision the content of the petition:
"We object to the organization in the Church of the presumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Stanislaus Bishop Martyr in September of the vocal-instrumental performance of Louis Lewandowski's works and to the participation of children in these events.
With deep anxiety and excitement, we received information about this concert, which is scheduled to take place on October 26 in the parish church in September. September is known in Poland from the Wrzesiński Children Strike from 1901 to 1902. Germanization was carried out during the Prussian occupation. Students of the Catholic People's School protested the command to teach religion and church singing in German.
They besides refused to follow orders issued in that language. The strike was symbolized by Bronisława Śmidowicza's gesture, which gave to the teacher through the apron German catechism. The students were severely punished by teachers – they were held in school and flogged. Parents defending their children besides joined the protest. Adult participants in the strike were brought before a court that sentenced a group of people to prison.
The spiritual guardian of the strikers was Fr Jan Laskowski – the vicar of the parish where the performance is to be held. We believe that organizing this event in the church is simply a cheek aimed at the brave, steadfast and known to the Wrzesiński Children. They did not let religion to be taught in German, they did not want to pray and sing in German.
Now children from the same city are obliged to sing German in the Catholic temple, and not Catholic songs only Jewish. The organization of this event will disgrace the good name and memory of the participants of the strike.
Therefore, we ask for the cancellation of the performance in the far church in September and for the exclusion from this event of children whose peers more than a century ago preferred to exposure themselves to repression than to renounce their Polishness."
Typically, specified actions fail, and anti-Polish environments push their sick ideas after all. This time, however, they gave up and the organization was cancelled. seemingly individual concluded that it was exaggerated and it is inactive besides early to humiliate Poles in specified an crucial historical place as September.
Nevertheless, Jews and sabbesgnoje expressed their anger on the Internet. A man named Jacob Stefek, who is to attend the event He poured out his frustration, by standard enquiry into racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia:
‘The utmost right and Grzegorz Braun launched an anti-Semitic campaign. This time our performance was canceled. This was to be another invitation and it was to be a task in a unique place – in September, at the place of birth in 1821 of Louis Lewandowski, the most celebrated composer of synagogue music, whose works are inactive sung in synagogues around the world. ...
Unfortunately, on October 17-19, the project, its organizers, us as artists, many people and institutions involved, as well as the clergy headed by the Primate of Poland, holding the honorary patronage, fell victim to a hysterical, anti-Semitic campaign, launched first on extreme right channel on YouTube, and then caught by Grzegorz Braun, a associate of the European Parliament, who has not first disgraced Poland's name in the world. Ridiculous thesis and hateful emotions fell to susceptible ground.
Throughout the day, we have tried to find aid with different people and institutions. I thought we were doing it. Unfortunately, although we ourselves are frequently inclined to make large sacrifices, we cannot require it from others.
Two concerts, my lecture on synagogue music and music workshops were cancelled. After 10 years of creating projects that reconstruct forgotten music, stories and writing about values, efforts to build bridges between cultures and peoples, dealing with specified tragically marked Polish-Jewish-German relations, this time we failed. This is the worst day of my artistic life.”
Mysior himself referred to the words of the shabesgoi. "Polish children, however, will NOT sing judaic songs in German in the Catholic Church, which was contributed by "the far right channel on YouTube" – he wrote, with a well-deserved note of irony.
OUR COMMENTS: The place for judaic songs, sung in German, is in Germany, or Israel. We do not want this on Polish soil, sanctified by the blood of heroes, especially in Września, where Polish children were beaten and bullied by Prussian teachers, for demanding the teaching of religion in Polish. Get out!
