LEARN MORE. In 'A Real Pain,' Jewish cousins tour Poland, cracking jokes and confronting the past By John Powers Published October 30, 2024 at 9:01 AM PDT Listen • 7:01 ...

In that lifespan, it rose to fame as one of the world’s leading Jewish museums and a symbol of Poland’s long-deferred recognition of its extinguished Jewish past.

Poland invented and shaped Ashkenazic Jewish culture. The largest percentage of Jews in the world lived here in Poland until 1939. You cannot tell the story of the Jews without Poland.

In 'A Real Pain,' Jewish cousins tour Poland, cracking jokes and confronting the past ... By John Powers Oct 30, 2024 12:01pm (Fresh Air / NPR) ...

Cousins Benji (Kieran Culkin) and David (Jesse Eisenberg) tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother in A Real Pain. We live in an era of ceaseless, shocking normalization.