World's first Bashevis Singer museum opens in Poland

While curators are still putting together the permanent collection, the museum is running a photo exhibition of pre-war Jewish life in Poland.

Singer wrote novels depicting Jewish life in Poland.

One of his books, which some people in Poland compare to Romeo and Juliet, is a love story involving a Polish girl and a Jewish boy.

Next to the museum, the Bilgoraj XXI Foundation has erected a sculpture depicting Singer sitting on a bench, and also rebuilt a wooden synagogue from an old photograph - an appropriate addition, since Singer's grandfather was the rabbi of Bilgoraj.

All of Poland's wooden synagogues were burned down by the Nazis during the war, and this is the first to be rebuilt.