HERELAND
Reforesting Diasporic Jewish Imagination
A circle of participants raises their arms in unison, echoing the expressive Yiddish poses of Polish-Jewish choreographer Judith Berg (1905–1992).
WHAT WE DO
Hereland brings diasporic Jewish communities to Poland for land-based learning and creative collaborations that reclaim Jewish memory as a source of healing and solidarity.
Amid lush greenery, five members of Hereland’s inaugural cohort sit and stand at a distance from one another at the former mikvah site in Milejczyce, Poland, alongside a river that has since been dammed.
WHAT WE OFFER
Hereland offers artist-led workshops, facilitated in-person retreats, and online educational resources rooted in ancestral memory and radical imagination.
The newly restored building of the former synagogue in Milejczyce, Poland, where pacifist Rabbi Aaron Shmuel Tamares (1869–1931) served the community for forty years.
WHO WE ARE
Hereland is a collective of artists, scholars, ritualists, technologists, and ecologists—including descendants of Holocaust survivors—committed to cultivating liberatory futures for all people.
The project is co-founded by artist Julie Weitz and activist-scholar Daniel Voskoboynik.
An accordionist performs in a Polish forest near the border with Belarus, filling the space with resonant music.
SUPPORT US
Hereland is fiscally sponsored by Fulcrum Arts, a non-profit U.S. arts service organization. To help realize Hereland’s vision of a more vibrant and interconnected future, please consider making a tax-deductible donation.
On July 25, 2025, a circle of participants gathered in the restored former synagogue in Milejczyce, Poland, for the first Kabbalat Shabbat service held in the space since the Nazi occupation in 1941.