Article: New Polish Chic -- Tzitzit and Yarmulkes: Jewish Culture Makes

Allan Chernoff
Forward
08-04-1995
New Polish Chic -- Tzitzit and Yarmulkes: Jewish Culture Makes Comeback. With Kosher Beer and `Fiddler on the Roof'

WARSAW -- At a new restaurant in Warsaw's Old Town, the Gessler Inn, diners are greeted by a man wearing a yarmulke and a long dark coat, evoking the traditional garb of 19th-century Polish Jews. Has a Borough Park Chasid wandered in by mistake? Has a resident of Williamsburg stumbled onto this charming basement establishment?

He turns out to be the maitre d', who ushers me and my party to our table. Inside the sparsely decorated candlelit restaurant, waiters scurry around dressed in tzitzit, the four-cornered cloth that Orthodox men are ...

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