Painting Inspires Dialogue Between Jews and Catholics in Poland

JEWISH DAILY FORWARD
By Magda Teter

A painting from Sandomierz Cathedral in Poland, depicts Jews murdering Christian children for their blood.

POLAND---One could not be unmoved when a group of young clerics from the local Catholic seminary sang a popular Israeli song in Hebrew, “Hevenu Shalom Aleikhem” (“We Brought Peace”), during a Catholic service in a small (and in January very sleepy) town in southeastern Poland. What was even more remarkable was the fact that the service was taking place in the Sandomierz Cathedral, known in Poland and the West more for its notorious 18th-century painting depicting Jews killing Christian children than for its historical beauty and unique medieval frescoes. [link]