If you are interested in the City of Łódź, Poland or its surrounding suburb towns, you are cordially invited to join us for a City of Łódź Town Hall Meeting, on Sunday, May 17, 2026 at 12 pm Eastern (USA) for 90 minutes. You must have an active JRI-Poland (free) user account to attend, but for this particular session, you do not need to be a paying JRI-Poland member.
Led by our City of Łódź Research Area Coordinator, Joe Ross, this session will be a briefing on the current status of JRI-Poland’s City of Łódź projects and a discussion of potential upcoming projects. Like a traditional “town hall meeting”, this session aims to give Łódź researchers the opportunity to weigh in and comment on their/your Łódź research interests.
As the fourth largest city in Poland today, Łódź continues to play its historically important role as an industrial area and has a colorful Jewish and economic history. Many of us understand the history of Polish industrialization through the lens of Israel Joshua Singer’s classic, “The Brothers Ashkenazi” which focuses on the building of industry in Łódź from the late 19th century through the end of World War I when the Jewish Community of Łódź boomed.
Come join us to learn more about this fascinating and important city and the surviving traces of the rich Jewish heritage there.
Please log in to your JRI-Poland account and then register below by clicking the BLUE button that says “Going”. We know it’s confusing, but you are not registered until you press the button and confirm your JRI-Poland contact information. Within a few minutes of registering, you should receive a reply email that uses the word “Tickets” in the subject line and will include a Zoom link for the event.
If you do not receive a “Ticket” email with the Zoom link – Please check your Spam and “Purchases” folders before using the JRI-Poland AI chat widget in the lower right corner of our webpages. Ask JeRI-bot to send a message to a human telling us you didn’t receive a Zoom link.
We will send a reminder message with a copy of the Zoom link within 2 days of the event for your added convenience.
Image Attribution: The above image was found in the Wikipedia and is in the public domain. The seal of the town since 1577, it depicts a boat – which is the literal translation of the Polish word “Łódź”.